Year: 1877

on board your ship miserable; but, at
length, a terrible retribution has over
taken you. You did not know your
man when you assailed me- You thought
me like the majority of common sailors,
who would submit to every indignity--
every abuse, and like the patient lamb,
lick the hand that was about to slay it.
You did not know your man, sir. 1t is
not for me to reveal myself to you suf-
flee it to say, have not always been
what am at present."


But Reynolds" whimpered the
skipper, in an abject tone, for he felt
that he was now indeed in the power of
the man upon whose feelings he had
trampled, :" what do you propose to do
with us, sir? ?" itt


DO you see that starboard quarter
boat, sir ?" a


"Yes, sir" replied the trembling
Whinyates. asH


you and your officers will be put
into that boat, with supply of pro-
visions and water, and turned adrift on
the open ocean, ear


Horrible, horriblel" cried the cap
tain "you will not proceed to such ex-
tremities surelyp"


"Will L not, thought Come aft
here, all of you, my lads, and lower
down this starboard cutter. Some of
you go down below, and get few beak-
ers of water and bags of bread, and put
into her."


The movements of the crew at once
showed the terrified skipper and his of
ficers that Reynolds was considered as
the leader, for his orders were implicitly
and promptly obeyed. The boat was
lowed into the sea, a few bags of bread,
ten or twelve beakers of water, COM
pass, and q few other useful articles
passed into her, when the captain was
ordered over the side, his bonds having
first been cut


But what do you intend to do with
the ship, Reynolds ?" inquired the skip
per, in wbeedling tone. n


"That is none of your business, SIR
The boat is waiting, get into her at once
and be off 1t is my turn to play the
tyrant now, you see." '''


But my daughter Honoria--surely
she is to share my fate"


"No, war not with woman. Your
daughter is locked up in her state-room.
She shall not suffer for the sins of her
father; will be kind to her and pro-
tect her with my life; but she cannot go
with you in that open boat. will not
have her thus exposed. Should you
ever live to reach your home, you may
perchance see her again-otherwise you
have looked your last upon her !" d.a.


The skipper and his mates were
bundled over the side into the boat, and
she Immediately dropped astern, for the
ship had been got before the wind again,
and was now, notwithstanding the wreck
of her fore-topmast, running off at the
rate of eight knots an hour, so that the
light craft in which Whinyates had been
compelled to take passage, was soon lost
in the distance.


Captain Whinyates, who was thor
ough seaman, had been for a long time
sailing out of New York, and by per-
severance had risen to the command of
an Indiaman. He was popular with his
owners, for he always made quick trips,
and seldom lost any spars or sails; but
he was abhorred by the different crews
who had sailed with him, and no man
could be persuaded to goa second voyage
with him. And yet, this rough skipper
had daughter--a motherless girl, who
was the very perfection of gentleness
and Christian virtue, with q heart full
of sensibility and affection ,and having
smile or kind word for all in distress. On
. this. occasion, she had taken passage on
board her fathers vessel, thinking sea
voyage might prove pleasant to her, and
she had often demonstrated with him
against his harsh treatment Of his crew,
and warned him that his cruelty and
tyranny would ere long, be the means
of placing him in a most unenyiable
plight. Little did the poor girl know
that her predictions were so soon to be
verified. ~" N'''' 'fs'"


Honoria Whinyates was now in her
eighteenth year, and as fair to look upon
as some dropping water-lily or modest
rose blooming in the midst OF some lone
ly wilderness, She had lost her mother
when quite a, child, and had, therefore,
been left in great measure TO her own
guidance; but her strong sense of pro-
priety and her virtuous mind bore her