The ship did sail without Mr.Gregory Wychecombe, and was lost, every soul on board perishing.

My grandfather passed into Virginia, where he remained a twelvemonth, suppressing his story, lest its narration might lead to military punishment.

Love next sealed his future fate.

He married a woman of fortune, and though his history was well known in his own retired circle, it never spread beyond it.

No one supposed him near the succession, and there was no motive for stating the fact, on account of his interests.