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for words, and John Belknap was man
of act rather than speech. Persuading
Dolly to go below, he busted himself In
rigging rude substitute for O rudder,
and then In getting up a slender spar to
serve as jury-mast With them, feeble
and incompetent as they needs must be,
he gained some control over the schoon-
er-su fflcient at least to keep her before
the wind, and thus avert the immediate
danger of swamping.
The night passed, and the next day
Dolly contrived to find and prepare food
for her guardian, who never was able to
leave the helm, although he slept grasp
ing the tiller, and became almost too
much exhausted for speech or thought.
But help was at hand, and the storm
was past.
AS the sun set he threw clear flood
of light across the subsiding waters, and
in its gleam shone out the top-sails of
bark plunging along toward them. The
signal raised by the girl, under her 10y
er's direction, was seen, and an hour
later the Fairy Queen lay alongside:the
Dolphin.
The next morning the armchair, the
twenty boxes and barrels, and, last of
all Dolly herself, were transferred to the
British bark, whose captain had con-
sented to carry the young lady's proper
ty as well as herself to the port wherein
as well as she was bound.
Arrived, Dolly was welcomed by her
uncle, to whom she at onct confided her
charge, and received in return no meas
ured praise and commentator.
your father says 1t is your own
dowry, lass,'' remarked the uncle, fold
ing up his brothers. letter. $50 let us
see to what it amounts, and place it in
safety"
The china, the books, the stuffs, and
the household gear were released from
the boxes and barrels, and then the
poor old armchair was ripped up, and
the fine old family plate, brought from
England by the major g father, the
brocades and silks that had been treas
ures of Dolly's grandmother, and still
waiting for occasions grand enough to
shape them into robes, a casket of he
reditary jewels, and finally the title
deeds of property both in the Old and
the New World, were all produced and
Dolly told of the perils the poor chair
had passed on board ship, and how it
had fallen down the companionway and
the silver coffee-pot had peeped out and
nearly betrayed the whole secret, and
how she had protected it and cobbled it
up, and how she had been glad to be left
on board by the retreating crew that she
might not abandon the charge her father
had confided to her.
"And now, UNCLE" said she, in con-
clusion, have promised, if you and
my father approve, to marry John Bel
knap; and he never suspected word of
all this"
elm truth, that is the most wonderful
part of the story" cried jolly old Ralph
Cathcart. mot one girl in hundred
would have shown your patience and
courage, my lass; but not one in five
thousand would have kept secret SO
faithfully and long, especially with a
sweetheart at her elbow. Well, when
the young man comes tonight, tell him
of your dowry, and tell him I'll answer
for my brothers. consent, as well as my
own. He touched upon the matter in
his letter."
The next news from Pilgrim Vale told
Dolly that her mother was at rest, and
her father had accepted brevet COM
mission in the royalist army. Then
came an interval of months, and then a
hurried scrawl written upon the field of
battle, and with it O letter from the
chaplain of the regiment, telling Dolly
that she was an orphan.
"No one earth now but you, John, y
sobbed the poor child in her lovers
arms.
"And will try to be all that earth
can give, with a looking on to some.
thing BETTER" replied he.
And tradition says he remembered his
promise, and that Mrs. Belknap was a
happy, prosperous, and most honor
ed wife.
And the old arm-chairY 1t stands
beside me, hale and hearty, in spite Of
| Dolly's cobbling.
ca There are great many men In
this world who imagine they are born
with genius, and lie down on the sofi
and wait for an inspiration until som'
other fellow who thought himself 8