And when once more thou art returned to thy press, I reserve for thee the glory of imprinting three noble copies of the same on paper of vellum, to be bound after the manner of the Venetians, in white, with clasps of gold, to be given, one to my lord Sorley Boy, one to Sir Ludar, and one to thee, for thy private and particular delectation." Again I thanked him, and begged he would reserve the reading till to- morrow, when I should be more wakeful.
To which, marvelling much at my patience, he agreed.
"As for me," said he, "naught falleth ill to the favourites of the Immortals.

I owe no grudge to the day I took thee into my protection.
As a printer, count on me as thy patron.

As a man, call me thy friend.
And if some day, at thy frugal fireside (for the which thou art already provided with the chiefest ornament), thou shouldst have a spare chair and platter, I will even deign to fill the one and empty the other now and again, in memory of this, our time of fellowship.

Therefore count on me, my Hollander; and so, good-night." There is little more to be told.

Of the crew of the doomed _Gerona_, the tide washed some hundreds, before many weeks were past, into a bay near the Causeway Headlands, east of Dunluce.