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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Message from the Sea, by Charles Dickens
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+Title: A Message from the Sea
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+Author: Charles Dickens
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+Release Date: April 3, 2005  [eBook #1407]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA***
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+Transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories" edition by
+David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
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+A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA
+
+
+CHAPTER I--THE VILLAGE
+
+
+"And a mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the
+days of my life!" said Captain Jorgan, looking up at it.
+
+Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built
+sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff.  There was no road in it,
+there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it.
+From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses,
+placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there, and there
+and here, rose, like the sides of a long succession of stages of crooked
+ladders, and you climbed up the village or climbed down the village by
+the staves between, some six feet wide or so, and made of sharp irregular
+stones.  The old pack-saddle, long laid aside in most parts of England as
+one of the appendages of its infancy, flourished here intact.  Strings of
+pack-horses and pack-donkeys toiled slowly up the staves of the ladders,
+bearing fish, and coal, and such other cargo as was unshipping at the
+pier from the dancing fleet of village boats, and from two or three
+little coasting traders.  As the beasts of burden ascended laden, or
+descended light, they got so lost at intervals in the floating clouds of
+village smoke, that they seemed to dive down some of the village
+chimneys, and come to the surface again far off, high above others.  No
+two houses in the village were alike, in chimney, size, shape, door,
+window, gable, roof-tree, anything.  The sides of the ladders were
+musical with water, running clear and bright.  The staves were musical
+with the clattering feet of the pack-horses and pack-donkeys, and the
+voices of the fishermen urging them up, mingled with the voices of the
+fishermen's wives and their many children.  The pier was musical with the
+wash of the sea, the creaking of capstans and windlasses, and the airy
+fluttering of little vanes and sails.  The rough, sea-bleached boulders
+of which the pier was made, and the whiter boulders of the shore, were
+brown with drying nets.  The red-brown cliffs, richly wooded to their
+extremest verge, had their softened and beautiful forms reflected in the
+bluest water, under the clear North Devonshire sky of a November day
+without a cloud.  The village itself was so steeped in autumnal foliage,
+from the houses lying on the pier to the topmost round of the topmost
+ladder, that one might have fancied it was out a bird's-nesting, and was
+(as indeed it was) a wonderful climber.  And mentioning birds, the place
+was not without some music from them too; for the rook was very busy on
+the higher levels, and the gull with his flapping wings was fishing in
+the bay, and the lusty little robin was hopping among the great stone
+blocks and iron rings of the breakwater, fearless in the faith of his
+ancestors, and the Children in the Wood.
+
+Thus it came to pass that Captain Jorgan, sitting balancing himself on
+the pier-wall, struck his leg with his open hand, as some men do when
+they are pleased--and as he always did when he was pleased--and said,--
+
+"A mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the days
+of my life!"
+
+Captain Jorgan had not been through the village, but had come down to the
+pier by a winding side-road, to have a preliminary look at it from the
+level of his own natural element.  He had seen many things and places,
+and had stowed them all away in a shrewd intellect and a vigorous memory.
+He was an American born, was Captain Jorgan,--a New-Englander,--but he
+was a citizen of the world, and a combination of most of the best
+qualities of most of its best countries.
+
+For Captain Jorgan to sit anywhere in his long-skirted blue coat and blue
+trousers, without holding converse with everybody within speaking
+distance, was a sheer impossibility.  So the captain fell to talking with
+the fishermen, and to asking them knowing questions about the fishery,
+and the tides, and the currents, and the race of water off that point
+yonder, and what you kept in your eye, and got into a line with what else
+when you ran into the little harbour; and other nautical profundities.
+Among the men who exchanged ideas with the captain was a young fellow,
+who exactly hit his fancy,--a young fisherman of two or three and twenty,
+in the rough sea-dress of his craft, with a brown face, dark curling
+hair, and bright, modest eyes under his Sou'wester hat, and with a frank,
+but simple and retiring manner, which the captain found uncommonly
+taking.  "I'd bet a thousand dollars," said the captain to himself, "that
+your father was an honest man!"
+
+"Might you be married now?" asked the captain, when he had had some talk
+with this new acquaintance.
+
+"Not yet."
+
+"Going to be?" said the captain.
+
+"I hope so."
+
+The captain's keen glance followed the slightest possible turn of the
+dark eye, and the slightest possible tilt of the Sou'wester hat.  The
+captain then slapped both his legs, and said to himself,--
+
+"Never knew such a good thing in all my life!  There's his sweetheart
+looking over the wall!"
+
+There was a very pretty girl looking over the wall, from a little
+platform of cottage, vine, and fuchsia; and she certainly dig not look as
+if the presence of this young fisherman in the landscape made it any the
+less sunny and hopeful for her.
+
+Captain Jorgan, having doubled himself up to laugh with that hearty good-
+nature which is quite exultant in the innocent happiness of other people,
+had undoubted himself, and was going to start a new subject, when there
+appeared coming down the lower ladders of stones, a man whom he hailed as
+"Tom Pettifer, Ho!"  Tom Pettifer, Ho, responded with alacrity, and in
+speedy course descended on the pier.
+
+"Afraid of a sun-stroke in England in November, Tom, that you wear your
+tropical hat, strongly paid outside and paper-lined inside, here?" said
+the captain, eyeing it.
+
+"It's as well to be on the safe side, sir," replied Tom.
+
+"Safe side!" repeated the captain, laughing.  "You'd guard against a sun-
+stroke, with that old hat, in an Ice Pack.  Wa'al!  What have you made
+out at the Post-office?"
+
+"It _is_ the Post-office, sir."
+
+"What's the Post-office?" said the captain.
+
+"The name, sir.  The name keeps the Post-office."
+
+"A coincidence!" said the captain.  "A lucky bit!  Show me where it is.
+Good-bye, shipmates, for the present!  I shall come and have another look
+at you, afore I leave, this afternoon."
+
+This was addressed to all there, but especially the young fisherman; so
+all there acknowledged it, but especially the young fisherman.  "_He's_ a
+sailor!" said one to another, as they looked after the captain moving
+away.  That he was; and so outspeaking was the sailor in him, that
+although his dress had nothing nautical about it, with the single
+exception of its colour, but was a suit of a shore-going shape and form,
+too long in the sleeves and too short in the legs, and too
+unaccommodating everywhere, terminating earthward in a pair of Wellington
+boots, and surmounted by a tall, stiff hat, which no mortal could have
+worn at sea in any wind under heaven; nevertheless, a glimpse of his
+sagacious, weather-beaten face, or his strong, brown hand, would have
+established the captain's calling.  Whereas Mr. Pettifer--a man of a
+certain plump neatness, with a curly whisker, and elaborately nautical in
+a jacket, and shoes, and all things correspondent--looked no more like a
+seaman, beside Captain Jorgan, than he looked like a sea-serpent.
+
+The two climbed high up the village,--which had the most arbitrary turns
+and twists in it, so that the cobbler's house came dead across the
+ladder, and to have held a reasonable course, you must have gone through
+his house, and through him too, as he sat at his work between two little
+windows,--with one eye microscopically on the geological formation of
+that part of Devonshire, and the other telescopically on the open
+sea,--the two climbed high up the village, and stopped before a quaint
+little house, on which was painted, "MRS. RAYBROCK, DRAPER;" and also
+"POST-OFFICE."  Before it, ran a rill of murmuring water, and access to
+it was gained by a little plank-bridge.
+
+"Here's the name," said Captain Jorgan, "sure enough.  You can come in if
+you like, Tom."
+
+The captain opened the door, and passed into an odd little shop, about
+six feet high, with a great variety of beams and bumps in the ceiling,
+and, besides the principal window giving on the ladder of stones, a
+purblind little window of a single pane of glass, peeping out of an
+abutting corner at the sun-lighted ocean, and winking at its brightness.
+
+"How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain.  "I am very glad to see you.  I
+have come a long way to see you."
+
+"_Have_ you, sir?  Then I am sure I am very glad to see _you_, though I
+don't know you from Adam."
+
+Thus a comely elderly woman, short of stature, plump of form, sparkling
+and dark of eye, who, perfectly clean and neat herself, stood in the
+midst of her perfectly clean and neat arrangements, and surveyed Captain
+Jorgan with smiling curiosity.  "Ah! but you are a sailor, sir," she
+added, almost immediately, and with a slight movement of her hands, that
+was not very unlike wringing them; "then you are heartily welcome."
+
+"Thank'ee, ma'am," said the captain, "I don't know what it is, I am sure;
+that brings out the salt in me, but everybody seems to see it on the
+crown of my hat and the collar of my coat.  Yes, ma'am, I am in that way
+of life."
+
+"And the other gentleman, too," said Mrs. Raybrock.
+
+"Well now, ma'am," said the captain, glancing shrewdly at the other
+gentleman, "you are that nigh right, that he goes to sea,--if that makes
+him a sailor.  This is my steward, ma'am, Tom Pettifer; he's been a'most
+all trades you could name, in the course of his life,--would have bought
+all your chairs and tables once, if you had wished to sell 'em,--but now
+he's my steward.  My name's Jorgan, and I'm a ship-owner, and I sail my
+own and my partners' ships, and have done so this five-and-twenty year.
+According to custom I am called Captain Jorgan, but I am no more a
+captain, bless your heart, than you are."
+
+"Perhaps you'll come into my parlour, sir, and take a chair?" said Mrs.
+Raybrock.
+
+"Ex-actly what I was going to propose myself, ma'am.  After you."
+
+Thus replying, and enjoining Tom to give an eye to the shop, Captain
+Jorgan followed Mrs. Raybrock into the little, low back-room,--decorated
+with divers plants in pots, tea-trays, old china teapots, and
+punch-bowls,--which was at once the private sitting-room of the Raybrock
+family and the inner cabinet of the post-office of the village of
+Steepways.
+
+"Now, ma'am," said the captain, "it don't signify a cent to you where I
+was born, except--"  But here the shadow of some one entering fell upon
+the captain's figure, and he broke off to double himself up, slap both
+his legs, and ejaculate, "Never knew such a thing in all my life!  Here
+he is again!  How are you?"
+
+These words referred to the young fellow who had so taken Captain
+Jorgan's fancy down at the pier.  To make it all quite complete he came
+in accompanied by the sweetheart whom the captain had detected looking
+over the wall.  A prettier sweetheart the sun could not have shone upon
+that shining day.  As she stood before the captain, with her rosy lips
+just parted in surprise, her brown eyes a little wider open than was
+usual from the same cause, and her breathing a little quickened by the
+ascent (and possibly by some mysterious hurry and flurry at the parlour
+door, in which the captain had observed her face to be for a moment
+totally eclipsed by the Sou'wester hat), she looked so charming, that the
+captain felt himself under a moral obligation to slap both his legs
+again.  She was very simply dressed, with no other ornament than an
+autumnal flower in her bosom.  She wore neither hat nor bonnet, but
+merely a scarf or kerchief, folded squarely back over the head, to keep
+the sun off,--according to a fashion that may be sometimes seen in the
+more genial parts of England as well as of Italy, and which is probably
+the first fashion of head-dress that came into the world when grasses and
+leaves went out.
+
+"In my country," said the captain, rising to give her his chair, and
+dexterously sliding it close to another chair on which the young
+fisherman must necessarily establish himself,--"in my country we should
+call Devonshire beauty first-rate!"
+
+Whenever a frank manner is offensive, it is because it is strained or
+feigned; for there may be quite as much intolerable affectation in
+plainness as in mincing nicety.  All that the captain said and did was
+honestly according to his nature; and his nature was open nature and good
+nature; therefore, when he paid this little compliment, and expressed
+with a sparkle or two of his knowing eye, "I see how it is, and nothing
+could be better," he had established a delicate confidence on that
+subject with the family.
+
+"I was saying to your worthy mother," said the captain to the young man,
+after again introducing himself by name and occupation,--"I was saying to
+your mother (and you're very like her) that it didn't signify where I was
+born, except that I was raised on question-asking ground, where the
+babies as soon as ever they come into the world, inquire of their
+mothers, 'Neow, how old may _you_ be, and wa'at air you a goin' to name
+me?'--which is a fact."  Here he slapped his leg.  "Such being the case,
+I may be excused for asking you if your name's Alfred?"
+
+"Yes, sir, my name is Alfred," returned the young man.
+
+"I am not a conjurer," pursued the captain, "and don't think me so, or I
+shall right soon undeceive you.  Likewise don't think, if you please,
+though I _do_ come from that country of the babies, that I am asking
+questions for question-asking's sake, for I am not.  Somebody belonging
+to you went to sea?"
+
+"My elder brother, Hugh," returned the young man.  He said it in an
+altered and lower voice, and glanced at his mother, who raised her hands
+hurriedly, and put them together across her black gown, and looked
+eagerly at the visitor.
+
+"No!  For God's sake, don't think that!" said the captain, in a solemn
+way; "I bring no good tidings of him."
+
+There was a silence, and the mother turned her face to the fire and put
+her hand between it and her eyes.  The young fisherman slightly motioned
+toward the window, and the captain, looking in that direction, saw a
+young widow, sitting at a neighbouring window across a little garden,
+engaged in needlework, with a young child sleeping on her bosom.  The
+silence continued until the captain asked of Alfred,--
+
+"How long is it since it happened?"
+
+"He shipped for his last voyage better than three years ago."
+
+"Ship struck upon some reef or rock, as I take it," said the captain,
+"and all hands lost?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Wa'al!" said the captain, after a shorter silence, "Here I sit who may
+come to the same end, like enough.  He holds the seas in the hollow of
+His hand.  We must all strike somewhere and go down.  Our comfort, then,
+for ourselves and one another is to have done our duty.  I'd wager your
+brother did his!"
+
+"He did!" answered the young fisherman.  "If ever man strove faithfully
+on all occasions to do his duty, my brother did.  My brother was not a
+quick man (anything but that), but he was a faithful, true, and just man.
+We were the sons of only a small tradesman in this county, sir; yet our
+father was as watchful of his good name as if he had been a king."
+
+"A precious sight more so, I hope--bearing in mind the general run of
+that class of crittur," said the captain.  "But I interrupt."
+
+"My brother considered that our father left the good name to us, to keep
+clear and true."
+
+"Your brother considered right," said the captain; "and you couldn't take
+care of a better legacy.  But again I interrupt."
+
+"No; for I have nothing more to say.  We know that Hugh lived well for
+the good name, and we feel certain that he died well for the good name.
+And now it has come into my keeping.  And that's all."
+
+"Well spoken!" cried the captain.  "Well spoken, young man!  Concerning
+the manner of your brother's death,"--by this time the captain had
+released the hand he had shaken, and sat with his own broad, brown hands
+spread out on his knees, and spoke aside,--"concerning the manner of your
+brother's death, it may be that I have some information to give you;
+though it may not be, for I am far from sure.  Can we have a little talk
+alone?"
+
+The young man rose; but not before the captain's quick eye had noticed
+that, on the pretty sweetheart's turning to the window to greet the young
+widow with a nod and a wave of the hand, the young widow had held up to
+her the needlework on which she was engaged, with a patient and pleasant
+smile.  So the captain said, being on his legs,--
+
+"What might she be making now?"
+
+"What is Margaret making, Kitty?" asked the young fisherman,--with one of
+his arms apparently mislaid somewhere.
+
+As Kitty only blushed in reply, the captain doubled himself up as far as
+he could, standing, and said, with a slap of his leg,--
+
+"In my country we should call it wedding-clothes.  Fact!  We should, I do
+assure you."
+
+But it seemed to strike the captain in another light too; for his laugh
+was not a long one, and he added, in quite a gentle tone,--
+
+"And it's very pretty, my dear, to see her--poor young thing, with her
+fatherless child upon her bosom--giving up her thoughts to your home and
+your happiness.  It's very pretty, my dear, and it's very good.  May your
+marriage be more prosperous than hers, and be a comfort to her too.  May
+the blessed sun see you all happy together, in possession of the good
+name, long after I have done ploughing the great salt field that is never
+sown!"
+
+Kitty answered very earnestly, "O!  Thank you, sir, with all my heart!"
+And, in her loving little way, kissed her hand to him, and possibly by
+implication to the young fisherman, too, as the latter held the parlour-
+door open for the captain to pass out.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II--THE MONEY
+
+
+"The stairs are very narrow, sir," said Alfred Raybrock to Captain
+Jorgan.
+
+"Like my cabin-stairs," returned the captain, "on many a voyage."
+
+"And they are rather inconvenient for the head."
+
+"If my head can't take care of itself by this time, after all the
+knocking about the world it has had," replied the captain, as
+unconcernedly as if he had no connection with it, "it's not worth looking
+after."
+
+Thus they came into the young fisherman's bedroom, which was as perfectly
+neat and clean as the shop and parlour below; though it was but a little
+place, with a sliding window, and a phrenological ceiling expressive of
+all the peculiarities of the house-roof.  Here the captain sat down on
+the foot of the bed, and glancing at a dreadful libel on Kitty which
+ornamented the wall,--the production of some wandering limner, whom the
+captain secretly admired as having studied portraiture from the figure-
+heads of ships,--motioned to the young man to take the rush-chair on the
+other side of the small round table.  That done, the captain put his hand
+in the deep breast-pocket of his long-skirted blue coat, and took out of
+it a strong square case-bottle,--not a large bottle, but such as may be
+seen in any ordinary ship's medicine-chest.  Setting this bottle on the
+table without removing his hand from it, Captain Jorgan then spake as
+follows:--
+
+"In my last voyage homeward-bound," said the captain, "and that's the
+voyage off of which I now come straight, I encountered such weather off
+the Horn as is not very often met with, even there.  I have rounded that
+stormy Cape pretty often, and I believe I first beat about there in the
+identical storms that blew the Devil's horns and tail off, and led to the
+horns being worked up into tooth-picks for the plantation overseers in my
+country, who may be seen (if you travel down South, or away West, fur
+enough) picking their teeth with 'em, while the whips, made of the tail,
+flog hard.  In this last voyage, homeward-bound for Liverpool from South
+America, I say to you, my young friend, it blew.  Whole measures!  No
+half measures, nor making believe to blow; it blew!  Now I warn't blown
+clean out of the water into the sky,--though I expected to be even
+that,--but I was blown clean out of my course; and when at last it fell
+calm, it fell dead calm, and a strong current set one way, day and night,
+night and day, and I drifted--drifted--drifted--out of all the ordinary
+tracks and courses of ships, and drifted yet, and yet drifted.  It
+behooves a man who takes charge of fellow-critturs' lives, never to rest
+from making himself master of his calling.  I never did rest, and
+consequently I knew pretty well ('specially looking over the side in the
+dead calm of that strong current) what dangers to expect, and what
+precautions to take against 'em.  In short, we were driving head on to an
+island.  There was no island in the chart, and, therefore, you may say it
+was ill-manners in the island to be there; I don't dispute its bad
+breeding, but there it was.  Thanks be to Heaven, I was as ready for the
+island as the island was ready for me.  I made it out myself from the
+masthead, and I got enough way upon her in good time to keep her off.  I
+ordered a boat to be lowered and manned, and went in that boat myself to
+explore the island.  There was a reef outside it, and, floating in a
+corner of the smooth water within the reef, was a heap of sea-weed, and
+entangled in that sea-weed was this bottle."
+
+Here the captain took his hand from the bottle for a moment, that the
+young fisherman might direct a wondering glance at it; and then replaced
+his band and went on:--
+
+"If ever you come--or even if ever you don't come--to a desert place, use
+you your eyes and your spy-glass well; for the smallest thing you see may
+prove of use to you; and may have some information or some warning in it.
+That's the principle on which I came to see this bottle.  I picked up the
+bottle and ran the boat alongside the island, and made fast and went
+ashore armed, with a part of my boat's crew.  We found that every scrap
+of vegetation on the island (I give it you as my opinion, but scant and
+scrubby at the best of times) had been consumed by fire.  As we were
+making our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers,
+one of my people sank into the earth breast-high.  He turned pale, and
+'Haul me out smart, shipmates,' says he, 'for my feet are among bones.'
+We soon got him on his legs again, and then we dug up the spot, and we
+found that the man was right, and that his feet had been among bones.
+More than that, they were human bones; though whether the remains of one
+man, or of two or three men, what with calcination and ashes, and what
+with a poor practical knowledge of anatomy, I can't undertake to say.  We
+examined the whole island and made out nothing else, save and except
+that, from its opposite side, I sighted a considerable tract of land,
+which land I was able to identify, and according to the bearings of which
+(not to trouble you with my log) I took a fresh departure.  When I got
+aboard again I opened the bottle, which was oilskin-covered as you see,
+and glass-stoppered as you see.  Inside of it," pursued the captain,
+suiting his action to his words, "I found this little crumpled, folded
+paper, just as you see.  Outside of it was written, as you see, these
+words: 'Whoever finds this, is solemnly entreated by the dead to convey
+it unread to Alfred Raybrock, Steepways, North Devon, England.'  A sacred
+charge," said the captain, concluding his narrative, "and, Alfred
+Raybrock, there it is!"
+
+"This is my poor brother's writing!"
+
+"I suppose so," said Captain Jorgan.  "I'll take a look out of this
+little window while you read it."
+
+"Pray no, sir!  I should be hurt.  My brother couldn't know it would fall
+into such hands as yours."
+
+The captain sat down again on the foot of the bed, and the young man
+opened the folded paper with a trembling hand, and spread it on the
+table.  The ragged paper, evidently creased and torn both before and
+after being written on, was much blotted and stained, and the ink had
+faded and run, and many words were wanting.  What the captain and the
+young fisherman made out together, after much re-reading and much
+humouring of the folds of the paper, is given on the next page.
+
+The young fisherman had become more and more agitated, as the writing had
+become clearer to him.  He now left it lying before the captain, over
+whose shoulder he had been reading it, and dropping into his former seat,
+leaned forward on the table and laid his face in his hands.
+
+"What, man," urged the captain, "don't give in!  Be up and doing _like_ a
+man!"
+
+"It is selfish, I know,--but doing what, doing what?" cried the young
+fisherman, in complete despair, and stamping his sea-boot on the ground.
+
+"Doing what?" returned the captain.  "Something!  I'd go down to the
+little breakwater below yonder, and take a wrench at one of the
+salt-rusted iron rings there, and either wrench it up by the roots or
+wrench my teeth out of my head, sooner than I'd do nothing.  Nothing!"
+ejaculated the captain.  "Any fool or fainting heart can do _that_, and
+nothing can come of nothing,--which was pretended to be found out, I
+believe, by one of them Latin critters," said the captain with the
+deepest disdain; "as if Adam hadn't found it out, afore ever he so much
+as named the beasts!"
+
+Yet the captain saw, in spite of his bold words, that there was some
+greater reason than he yet understood for the young man's distress.  And
+he eyed him with a sympathising curiosity.
+
+"Come, come!" continued the captain, "Speak out.  What is it, boy!"
+
+"You have seen how beautiful she is, sir," said the young man, looking up
+for the moment, with a flushed face and rumpled hair.
+
+"Did any man ever say she warn't beautiful?" retorted the captain.  "If
+so, go and lick him."
+
+The young man laughed fretfully in spite of himself, and said--
+
+"It's not that, it's not that."
+
+"Wa'al, then, what is it?" said the captain in a more soothing tone.
+
+The young fisherman mournfully composed himself to tell the captain what
+it was, and began: "We were to have been married next Monday week--"
+
+"Were to have been!" interrupted Captain Jorgan.  "And are to be?  Hey?"
+
+Young Raybrock shook his head, and traced out with his fore-finger the
+words, "_poor father's five hundred pounds_," in the written paper.
+
+"Go along," said the captain.  "Five hundred pounds?  Yes?"
+
+"That sum of money," pursued the young fisherman, entering with the
+greatest earnestness on his demonstration, while the captain eyed him
+with equal earnestness, "was all my late father possessed.  When he died,
+he owed no man more than he left means to pay, but he had been able to
+lay by only five hundred pounds."
+
+"Five hundred pounds," repeated the captain.  "Yes?"
+
+"In his lifetime, years before, he had expressly laid the money aside to
+leave to my mother,--like to settle upon her, if I make myself
+understood."
+
+"Yes?"
+
+"He had risked it once--my father put down in writing at that time,
+respecting the money--and was resolved never to risk it again."
+
+"Not a spectator," said the captain.  "My country wouldn't have suited
+him.  Yes?"
+
+"My mother has never touched the money till now.  And now it was to have
+been laid out, this very next week, in buying me a handsome share in our
+neighbouring fishery here, to settle me in life with Kitty."
+
+The captain's face fell, and he passed and repassed his sun-browned right
+hand over his thin hair, in a discomfited manner.
+
+"Kitty's father has no more than enough to live on, even in the sparing
+way in which we live about here.  He is a kind of bailiff or steward of
+manor rights here, and they are not much, and it is but a poor little
+office.  He was better off once, and Kitty must never marry to mere
+drudgery and hard living."
+
+The captain still sat stroking his thin hair, and looking at the young
+fisherman.
+
+"I am as certain that my father had no knowledge that any one was wronged
+as to this money, or that any restitution ought to be made, as I am
+certain that the sun now shines.  But, after this solemn warning from my
+brother's grave in the sea, that the money is Stolen Money," said Young
+Raybrock, forcing himself to the utterance of the words, "can I doubt it?
+Can I touch it?"
+
+"About not doubting, I ain't so sure," observed the captain; "but about
+not touching--no--I don't think you can."
+
+"See then," said Young Raybrock, "why I am so grieved.  Think of Kitty.
+Think what I have got to tell her!"
+
+His heart quite failed him again when he had come round to that, and he
+once more beat his sea-boot softly on the floor.  But not for long; he
+soon began again, in a quietly resolute tone.
+
+"However!  Enough of that!  You spoke some brave words to me just now,
+Captain Jorgan, and they shall not be spoken in vain.  I have got to do
+something.  What I have got to do, before all other things, is to trace
+out the meaning of this paper, for the sake of the Good Name that has no
+one else to put it right.  And still for the sake of the Good Name, and
+my father's memory, not a word of this writing must be breathed to my
+mother, or to Kitty, or to any human creature.  You agree in this?"
+
+"I don't know what they'll think of us below," said the captain, "but for
+certain I can't oppose it.  Now, as to tracing.  How will you do?"
+
+They both, as by consent, bent over the paper again, and again carefully
+puzzled out the whole of the writing.
+
+"I make out that this would stand, if all the writing was here, 'Inquire
+among the old men living there, for'--some one.  Most like, you'll go to
+this village named here?" said the captain, musing, with his finger on
+the name.
+
+"Yes!  And Mr. Tregarthen is a Cornishman, and--to be sure!--comes from
+Lanrean."
+
+"Does he?" said the captain quietly.  "As I ain't acquainted with him,
+who may _he_ be?"
+
+"Mr. Tregarthen is Kitty's father."
+
+"Ay, ay!" cried the captain.  "Now you speak!  Tregarthen knows this
+village of Lanrean, then?"
+
+"Beyond all doubt he does.  I have often heard him mention it, as being
+his native place.  He knows it well."
+
+"Stop half a moment," said the captain.  "We want a name here.  You could
+ask Tregarthen (or if you couldn't I could) what names of old men he
+remembers in his time in those diggings?  Hey?"
+
+"I can go straight to his cottage, and ask him now."
+
+"Take me with you," said the captain, rising in a solid way that had a
+most comfortable reliability in it, "and just a word more first.  I have
+knocked about harder than you, and have got along further than you.  I
+have had, all my sea-going life long, to keep my wits polished bright
+with acid and friction, like the brass cases of the ship's instruments.
+I'll keep you company on this expedition.  Now you don't live by talking
+any more than I do.  Clench that hand of yours in this hand of mine, and
+that's a speech on both sides."
+
+Captain Jorgan took command of the expedition with that hearty shake.  He
+at once refolded the paper exactly as before, replaced it in the bottle,
+put the stopper in, put the oilskin over the stopper, confided the whole
+to Young Raybrock's keeping, and led the way down-stairs.
+
+But it was harder navigation below-stairs than above.  The instant they
+set foot in the parlour the quick, womanly eye detected that there was
+something wrong.  Kitty exclaimed, frightened, as she ran to her lover's
+side, "Alfred!  What's the matter?"  Mrs. Raybrock cried out to the
+captain, "Gracious! what have you done to my son to change him like this
+all in a minute?"  And the young widow--who was there with her work upon
+her arm--was at first so agitated that she frightened the little girl she
+held in her hand, who hid her face in her mother's skirts and screamed.
+The captain, conscious of being held responsible for this domestic
+change, contemplated it with quite a guilty expression of countenance,
+and looked to the young fisherman to come to his rescue.
+
+"Kitty, darling," said Young Raybrock, "Kitty, dearest love, I must go
+away to Lanrean, and I don't know where else or how much further, this
+very day.  Worse than that--our marriage, Kitty, must be put off, and I
+don't know for how long."
+
+Kitty stared at him, in doubt and wonder and in anger, and pushed him
+from her with her hand.
+
+"Put off?" cried Mrs. Raybrock.  "The marriage put off?  And you going to
+Lanrean!  Why, in the name of the dear Lord?"
+
+"Mother dear, I can't say why; I must not say why.  It would be
+dishonourable and undutiful to say why."
+
+"Dishonourable and undutiful?" returned the dame.  "And is there nothing
+dishonourable or undutiful in the boy's breaking the heart of his own
+plighted love, and his mother's heart too, for the sake of the dark
+secrets and counsels of a wicked stranger?  Why did you ever come here?"
+she apostrophised the innocent captain.  "Who wanted you?  Where did you
+come from?  Why couldn't you rest in your own bad place, wherever it is,
+instead of disturbing the peace of quiet unoffending folk like us?"
+
+"And what," sobbed the poor little Kitty, "have I ever done to you, you
+hard and cruel captain, that you should come and serve me so?"
+
+And then they both began to weep most pitifully, while the captain could
+only look from the one to the other, and lay hold of himself by the coat
+collar.
+
+"Margaret," said the poor young fisherman, on his knees at Kitty's feet,
+while Kitty kept both her hands before her tearful face, to shut out the
+traitor from her view,--but kept her fingers wide asunder and looked at
+him all the time,--"Margaret, you have suffered so much, so
+uncomplainingly, and are always so careful and considerate!  Do take my
+part, for poor Hugh's sake!"
+
+The quiet Margaret was not appealed to in vain.  "I will, Alfred," she
+returned, "and I do.  I wish this gentleman had never come near us;"
+whereupon the captain laid hold of himself the tighter; "but I take your
+part for all that.  I am sure you have some strong reason and some
+sufficient reason for what you do, strange as it is, and even for not
+saying why you do it, strange as that is.  And, Kitty darling, you are
+bound to think so more than any one, for true love believes everything,
+and bears everything, and trusts everything.  And, mother dear, you are
+bound to think so too, for you know you have been blest with good sons,
+whose word was always as good as their oath, and who were brought up in
+as true a sense of honour as any gentleman in this land.  And I am sure
+you have no more call, mother, to doubt your living son than to doubt
+your dead son; and for the sake of the dear dead, I stand up for the dear
+living."
+
+"Wa'al now," the captain struck in, with enthusiasm, "this I say, That
+whether your opinions flatter me or not, you are a young woman of sense,
+and spirit, and feeling; and I'd sooner have you by my side in the hour
+of danger, than a good half of the men I've ever fallen in with--or
+fallen out with, ayther."
+
+Margaret did not return the captain's compliment, or appear fully to
+reciprocate his good opinion, but she applied herself to the consolation
+of Kitty, and of Kitty's mother-in-law that was to have been next Monday
+week, and soon restored the parlour to a quiet condition.
+
+"Kitty, my darling," said the young fisherman, "I must go to your father
+to entreat him still to trust me in spite of this wretched change and
+mystery, and to ask him for some directions concerning Lanrean.  Will you
+come home?  Will you come with me, Kitty?"
+
+Kitty answered not a word, but rose sobbing, with the end of her simple
+head-dress at her eyes.  Captain Jorgan followed the lovers out, quite
+sheepishly, pausing in the shop to give an instruction to Mr. Pettifer.
+
+"Here, Tom!" said the captain, in a low voice.  "Here's something in your
+line.  Here's an old lady poorly and low in her spirits.  Cheer her up a
+bit, Tom.  Cheer 'em all up."
+
+Mr. Pettifer, with a brisk nod of intelligence, immediately assumed his
+steward face, and went with his quiet, helpful, steward step into the
+parlour, where the captain had the great satisfaction of seeing him,
+through the glass door, take the child in his arms (who offered no
+objection), and bend over Mrs. Raybrock, administering soft words of
+consolation.
+
+"Though what he finds to say, unless he's telling her that 't'll soon be
+over, or that most people is so at first, or that it'll do her good
+afterward, I cannot imaginate!" was the captain's reflection as he
+followed the lovers.
+
+He had not far to follow them, since it was but a short descent down the
+stony ways to the cottage of Kitty's father.  But short as the distance
+was, it was long enough to enable the captain to observe that he was fast
+becoming the village Ogre; for there was not a woman standing working at
+her door, or a fisherman coming up or going down, who saw Young Raybrock
+unhappy and little Kitty in tears, but he or she instantly darted a
+suspicious and indignant glance at the captain, as the foreigner who must
+somehow be responsible for this unusual spectacle.  Consequently, when
+they came into Tregarthen's little garden,--which formed the platform
+from which the captain had seen Kitty peeping over the wall,--the captain
+brought to, and stood off and on at the gate, while Kitty hurried to hide
+her tears in her own room, and Alfred spoke with her father, who was
+working in the garden.  He was a rather infirm man, but could scarcely be
+called old yet, with an agreeable face and a promising air of making the
+best of things.  The conversation began on his side with great
+cheerfulness and good humour, but soon became distrustful, and soon
+angry.  That was the captain's cue for striking both into the
+conversation and the garden.
+
+"Morning, sir!" said Captain Jorgan.  "How do you do?"
+
+"The gentleman I am going away with," said the young fisherman to
+Tregarthen.
+
+"O!" returned Kitty's father, surveying the unfortunate captain with a
+look of extreme disfavour.  "I confess that I can't say I am glad to see
+you."
+
+"No," said the captain, "and, to admit the truth, that seems to be the
+general opinion in these parts.  But don't be hasty; you may think better
+of me by-and-by."
+
+"I hope so," observed Tregarthen.
+
+"Wa'al, _I_ hope so," observed the captain, quite at his ease; "more than
+that, I believe so,--though you don't.  Now, Mr. Tregarthen, you don't
+want to exchange words of mistrust with me; and if you did, you couldn't,
+because I wouldn't.  You and I are old enough to know better than to
+judge against experience from surfaces and appearances; and if you
+haven't lived to find out the evil and injustice of such judgments, you
+are a lucky man."
+
+The other seemed to shrink under this remark, and replied, "Sir, I _have_
+lived to feel it deeply."
+
+"Wa'al," said the captain, mollified, "then I've made a good cast without
+knowing it.  Now, Tregarthen, there stands the lover of your only child,
+and here stand I who know his secret.  I warrant it a righteous secret,
+and none of his making, though bound to be of his keeping.  I want to
+help him out with it, and tewwards that end we ask you to favour us with
+the names of two or three old residents in the village of Lanrean.  As I
+am taking out my pocket-book and pencil to put the names down, I may as
+well observe to you that this, wrote atop of the first page here, is my
+name and address: 'Silas Jonas Jorgan, Salem, Massachusetts, United
+States.'  If ever you take it in your head to run over any morning, I
+shall be glad to welcome you.  Now, what may be the spelling of these
+said names?"
+
+"There was an elderly man," said Tregarthen, "named David Polreath.  He
+may be dead."
+
+"Wa'al," said the captain, cheerfully, "if Polreath's dead and buried,
+and can be made of any service to us, Polreath won't object to our
+digging of him up.  Polreath's down, anyhow."
+
+"There was another named Penrewen.  I don't know his Christian name."
+
+"Never mind his Chris'en name," said the captain; "Penrewen, for short."
+
+"There was another named John Tredgear."
+
+"And a pleasant-sounding name, too," said the captain; "John Tredgear's
+booked."
+
+"I can recall no other except old Parvis."
+
+"One of old Parvis's fam'ly I reckon," said the captain, "kept a
+dry-goods store in New York city, and realised a handsome competency by
+burning his house to ashes.  Same name, anyhow.  David Polreath,
+Unchris'en Penrewen, John Tredgear, and old Arson Parvis."
+
+"I cannot recall any others at the moment."
+
+"Thank'ee," said the captain.  "And so, Tregarthen, hoping for your good
+opinion yet, and likewise for the fair Devonshire Flower's, your
+daughter's, I give you my hand, sir, and wish you good day."
+
+Young Raybrock accompanied him disconsolately; for there was no Kitty at
+the window when he looked up, no Kitty in the garden when he shut the
+gate, no Kitty gazing after them along the stony ways when they begin to
+climb back.
+
+"Now I tell you what," said the captain.  "Not being at present
+calculated to promote harmony in your family, I won't come in.  You go
+and get your dinner at home, and I'll get mine at the little hotel.  Let
+our hour of meeting be two o'clock, and you'll find me smoking a cigar in
+the sun afore the hotel door.  Tell Tom Pettifer, my steward, to consider
+himself on duty, and to look after your people till we come back; you'll
+find he'll have made himself useful to 'em already, and will be quite
+acceptable."
+
+All was done as Captain Jorgan directed.  Punctually at two o'clock the
+young fisherman appeared with his knapsack at his back; and punctually at
+two o'clock the captain jerked away the last feather-end of his cigar.
+
+"Let me carry your baggage, Captain Jorgan; I can easily take it with
+mine."
+
+"Thank'ee," said the captain.  "I'll carry it myself.  It's only a comb."
+
+They climbed out of the village, and paused among the trees and fern on
+the summit of the hill above, to take breath, and to look down at the
+beautiful sea.  Suddenly the captain gave his leg a resounding slap, and
+cried, "Never knew such a right thing in all my life!"--and ran away.
+
+The cause of this abrupt retirement on the part of the captain was little
+Kitty among the trees.  The captain went out of sight and waited, and
+kept out of sight and waited, until it occurred to him to beguile the
+time with another cigar.  He lighted it, and smoked it out, and still he
+was out of sight and waiting.  He stole within sight at last, and saw the
+lovers, with their arms entwined and their bent heads touching, moving
+slowly among the trees.  It was the golden time of the afternoon then,
+and the captain said to himself, "Golden sun, golden sea, golden sails,
+golden leaves, golden love, golden youth,--a golden state of things
+altogether!"
+
+Nevertheless the captain found it necessary to hail his young companion
+before going out of sight again.  In a few moments more he came up and
+they began their journey.
+
+"That still young woman with the fatherless child," said Captain Jorgan,
+as they fell into step, "didn't throw her words away; but good honest
+words are never thrown away.  And now that I am conveying you off from
+that tender little thing that loves, and relies, and hopes, I feel just
+as if I was the snarling crittur in the picters, with the tight legs, the
+long nose, and the feather in his cap, the tips of whose moustaches get
+up nearer to his eyes the wickeder he gets."
+
+The young fisherman knew nothing of Mephistopheles; but he smiled when
+the captain stopped to double himself up and slap his leg, and they went
+along in right goodfellowship.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V {1}--THE RESTITUTION
+
+
+Captain Jorgan, up and out betimes, had put the whole village of Lanrean
+under an amicable cross-examination, and was returning to the King
+Arthur's Arms to breakfast, none the wiser for his trouble, when he
+beheld the young fisherman advancing to meet him, accompanied by a
+stranger.  A glance at this stranger assured the captain that he could be
+no other than the Seafaring Man; and the captain was about to hail him as
+a fellow-craftsman, when the two stood still and silent before the
+captain, and the captain stood still, silent, and wondering before them.
+
+"Why, what's this?" cried the captain, when at last he broke the silence.
+"You two are alike.  You two are much alike.  What's this?"
+
+Not a word was answered on the other side, until after the seafaring
+brother had got hold of the captain's right hand, and the fisherman
+brother had got hold of the captain's left hand; and if ever the captain
+had had his fill of hand-shaking, from his birth to that hour, he had it
+then.  And presently up and spoke the two brothers, one at a time, two at
+a time, two dozen at a time for the bewilderment into which they plunged
+the captain, until he gradually had Hugh Raybrock's deliverance made
+clear to him, and also unravelled the fact that the person referred to in
+the half-obliterated paper was Tregarthen himself.
+
+"Formerly, dear Captain Jorgan," said Alfred, "of Lanrean, you recollect?
+Kitty and her father came to live at Steepways after Hugh shipped on his
+last voyage."
+
+"Ay, ay!" cried the captain, fetching a breath.  "_Now_ you have me in
+tow.  Then your brother here don't know his sister-in-law that is to be
+so much as by name?"
+
+"Never saw her; never heard of her!"
+
+"Ay, ay, ay!" cried the captain.  "Why then we every one go back
+together--paper, writer, and all--and take Tregarthen into the secret we
+kept from him?"
+
+"Surely," said Alfred, "we can't help it now.  We must go through with
+our duty."
+
+"Not a doubt," returned the captain.  "Give me an arm apiece, and let us
+set this ship-shape."
+
+So walking up and down in the shrill wind on the wild moor, while the
+neglected breakfast cooled within, the captain and the brothers settled
+their course of action.
+
+It was that they should all proceed by the quickest means they could
+secure to Barnstaple, and there look over the father's books and papers
+in the lawyer's keeping; as Hugh had proposed to himself to do if ever he
+reached home.  That, enlightened or unenlightened, they should then
+return to Steepways and go straight to Mr. Tregarthen, and tell him all
+they knew, and see what came of it, and act accordingly.  Lastly, that
+when they got there they should enter the village with all precautions
+against Hugh's being recognised by any chance; and that to the captain
+should be consigned the task of preparing his wife and mother for his
+restoration to this life.
+
+"For you see," quoth Captain Jorgan, touching the last head, "it requires
+caution any way, great joys being as dangerous as great griefs, if not
+more dangerous, as being more uncommon (and therefore less provided
+against) in this round world of ours.  And besides, I should like to free
+my name with the ladies, and take you home again at your brightest and
+luckiest; so don't let's throw away a chance of success."
+
+The captain was highly lauded by the brothers for his kind interest and
+foresight.
+
+"And now stop!" said the captain, coming to a standstill, and looking
+from one brother to the other, with quite a new rigging of wrinkles about
+each eye; "you are of opinion," to the elder, "that you are ra'ather
+slow?"
+
+"I assure you I am very slow," said the honest Hugh.
+
+"Wa'al," replied the captain, "I assure you that to the best of my belief
+I am ra'ather smart.  Now a slow man ain't good at quick business, is
+he?"
+
+That was clear to both.
+
+"You," said the captain, turning to the younger brother, "are a little in
+love; ain't you?"
+
+"Not a little, Captain Jorgan."
+
+"Much or little, you're sort preoccupied; ain't you?"
+
+It was impossible to be denied.
+
+"And a sort preoccupied man ain't good at quick business, is he?" said
+the captain.
+
+Equally clear on all sides.
+
+"Now," said the captain, "I ain't in love myself, and I've made many a
+smart run across the ocean, and I should like to carry on and go ahead
+with this affair of yours, and make a run slick through it.  Shall I try?
+Will you hand it over to me?"
+
+They were both delighted to do so, and thanked him heartily.
+
+"Good," said the captain, taking out his watch.  "This is half-past eight
+a.m., Friday morning.  I'll jot that down, and we'll compute how many
+hours we've been out when we run into your mother's post-office.  There!
+The entry's made, and now we go ahead."
+
+They went ahead so well that before the Barnstaple lawyer's office was
+open next morning, the captain was sitting whistling on the step of the
+door, waiting for the clerk to come down the street with his key and open
+it.  But instead of the clerk there came the master, with whom the
+captain fraternised on the spot to an extent that utterly confounded him.
+
+As he personally knew both Hugh and Alfred, there was no difficulty in
+obtaining immediate access to such of the father's papers as were in his
+keeping.  These were chiefly old letters and cash accounts; from which
+the captain, with a shrewdness and despatch that left the lawyer far
+behind, established with perfect clearness, by noon, the following
+particulars:--
+
+That one Lawrence Clissold had borrowed of the deceased, at a time when
+he was a thriving young tradesman in the town of Barnstaple, the sum of
+five hundred pounds.  That he had borrowed it on the written statement
+that it was to be laid out in furtherance of a speculation which he
+expected would raise him to independence; he being, at the time of
+writing that letter, no more than a clerk in the house of Dringworth
+Brothers, America Square, London.  That the money was borrowed for a
+stipulated period; but that, when the term was out, the aforesaid
+speculation failed, and Clissold was without means of repayment.  That,
+hereupon, he had written to his creditor, in no very persuasive terms,
+vaguely requesting further time.  That the creditor had refused this
+concession, declaring that he could not afford delay.  That Clissold then
+paid the debt, accompanying the remittance of the money with an angry
+letter describing it as having been advanced by a relative to save him
+from ruin.  That, in acknowlodging the receipt, Raybrock had cautioned
+Clissold to seek to borrow money of him no more, as he would never so
+risk money again.
+
+Before the lawyer the captain said never a word in reference to these
+discoveries.  But when the papers had been put back in their box, and he
+and his two companions were well out of the office, his right leg
+suffered for it, and he said,--
+
+"So far this run's begun with a fair wind and a prosperous; for don't you
+see that all this agrees with that dutiful trust in his father maintained
+by the slow member of the Raybrock family?"
+
+Whether the brothers had seen it before or no, they saw it now.  Not that
+the captain gave them much time to contemplate the state of things at
+their ease, for he instantly whipped them into a chaise again, and bore
+them off to Steepways.  Although the afternoon was but just beginning to
+decline when they reached it, and it was broad day-light, still they had
+no difficulty, by dint of muffing the returned sailor up, and ascending
+the village rather than descending it, in reaching Tregarthen's cottage
+unobserved.  Kitty was not visible, and they surprised Tregarthen sitting
+writing in the small bay-window of his little room.
+
+"Sir," said the captain, instantly shaking hands with him, pen and all,
+"I'm glad to see you, sir.  How do you do, sir?  I told you you'd think
+better of me by-and-by, and I congratulate you on going to do it."
+
+Here the captain's eye fell on Tom Pettifer Ho, engaged in preparing some
+cookery at the fire.
+
+"That critter," said the captain, smiting his leg, "is a born steward,
+and never ought to have been in any other way of life.  Stop where you
+are, Tom, and make yourself useful.  Now, Tregarthen, I'm going to try a
+chair."
+
+Accordingly the captain drew one close to him, and went on:--
+
+"This loving member of the Raybrock family you know, sir.  This slow
+member of the same family you don't know, sir.  Wa'al, these two are
+brothers,--fact!  Hugh's come to life again, and here he stands.  Now see
+here, my friend!  You don't want to be told that he was cast away, but
+you do want to be told (for there's a purpose in it) that he was cast
+away with another man.  That man by name was Lawrence Clissold."
+
+At the mention of this name Tregarthen started and changed colour.
+"What's the matter?" said the captain.
+
+"He was a fellow-clerk of mine thirty--five-and-thirty--years ago."
+
+"True," said the captain, immediately catching at the clew: "Dringworth
+Brothers, America Square, London City."
+
+The other started again, nodded, and said, "That was the house."
+
+"Now," pursued the captain, "between those two men cast away there arose
+a mystery concerning the round sum of five hundred pound."
+
+Again Tregarthen started, changing colour.  Again the captain said,
+"What's the matter?"
+
+As Tregarthen only answered, "Please to go on," the captain recounted,
+very tersely and plainly, the nature of Clissold's wanderings on the
+barren island, as he had condensed them in his mind from the seafaring
+man.  Tregarthen became greatly agitated during this recital, and at
+length exclaimed,--
+
+"Clissold was the man who ruined me!  I have suspected it for many a long
+year, and now I know it."
+
+"And how," said the captain, drawing his chair still closer to
+Tregarthen, and clapping his hand upon his shoulder,--"how may you know
+it?"
+
+"When we were fellow-clerks," replied Tregarthen, "in that London house,
+it was one of my duties to enter daily in a certain book an account of
+the sums received that day by the firm, and afterward paid into the
+bankers'.  One memorable day,--a Wednesday, the black day of my
+life,--among the sums I so entered was one of five hundred pounds."
+
+"I begin to make it out," said the captain.  "Yes?"
+
+"It was one of Clissold's duties to copy from this entry a memorandum of
+the sums which the clerk employed to go to the bankers' paid in there.  It
+was my duty to hand the money to Clissold; it was Clissold's to hand it
+to the clerk, with that memorandum of his writing.  On that Wednesday I
+entered a sum of five hundred pounds received.  I handed that sum, as I
+handed the other sums in the day's entry, to Clissold.  I was absolutely
+certain of it at the time; I have been absolutely certain of it ever
+since.  A sum of five hundred pounds was afterward found by the house to
+have been that day wanting from the bag, from Clissold's memorandum, and
+from the entries in my book.  Clissold, being questioned, stood upon his
+perfect clearness in the matter, and emphatically declared that he asked
+no better than to be tested by 'Tregarthen's book.'  My book was
+examined, and the entry of five hundred pounds was not there."
+
+"How not there," said the captain, "when you made it yourself?"
+
+Tregarthen continued:--
+
+"I was then questioned.  Had I made the entry?  Certainly I had.  The
+house produced my book, and it was not there.  I could not deny my book;
+I could not deny my writing.  I knew there must be forgery by some one;
+but the writing was wonderfully like mine, and I could impeach no one if
+the house could not.  I was required to pay the money back.  I did so;
+and I left the house, almost broken-hearted, rather than remain
+there,--even if I could have done so,--with a dark shadow of suspicion
+always on me.  I returned to my native place, Lanrean, and remained
+there, clerk to a mine, until I was appointed to my little post here."
+
+"I well remember," said the captain, "that I told you that if you had no
+experience of ill judgments on deceiving appearances, you were a lucky
+man.  You went hurt at that, and I see why.  I'm sorry."
+
+"Thus it is," said Tregarthen.  "Of my own innocence I have of course
+been sure; it has been at once my comfort and my trial.  Of Clissold I
+have always had suspicions almost amounting to certainty; but they have
+never been confirmed until now.  For my daughter's sake and for my own I
+have carried this subject in my own heart, as the only secret of my life,
+and have long believed that it would die with me."
+
+"Wa'al, my good sir," said the captain cordially, "the present question
+is, and will be long, I hope, concerning living, and not dying.  Now,
+here are our two honest friends, the loving Raybrock and the slow.  Here
+they stand, agreed on one point, on which I'd back 'em round the world,
+and right across it from north to south, and then again from east to
+west, and through it, from your deepest Cornish mine to China.  It is,
+that they will never use this same so-often-mentioned sum of money, and
+that restitution of it must be made to you.  These two, the loving member
+and the slow, for the sake of the right and of their father's memory,
+will have it ready for you to-morrow.  Take it, and ease their minds and
+mine, and end a most unfortunate transaction."
+
+Tregarthen took the captain by the hand, and gave his hand to each of the
+young men, but positively and finally answered No.  He said, they trusted
+to his word, and he was glad of it, and at rest in his mind; but there
+was no proof, and the money must remain as it was.  All were very earnest
+over this; and earnestness in men, when they are right and true, is so
+impressive, that Mr. Pettifer deserted his cookery and looked on quite
+moved.
+
+"And so," said the captain, "so we come--as that lawyer-crittur over
+yonder where we were this morning might--to mere proof; do we?  We must
+have it; must we?  How?  From this Clissold's wanderings, and from what
+you say, it ain't hard to make out that there was a neat forgery of your
+writing committed by the too smart rowdy that was grease and ashes when I
+made his acquaintance, and a substitution of a forged leaf in your book
+for a real and torn leaf torn out.  Now was that real and true leaf then
+and there destroyed?  No,--for says he, in his drunken way, he slipped it
+into a crack in his own desk, because you came into the office before
+there was time to burn it, and could never get back to it arterwards.
+Wait a bit.  Where is that desk now?  Do you consider it likely to be in
+America Square, London City?"
+
+Tregarthen shook his head.
+
+"The house has not, for years, transacted business in that place.  I have
+heard of it, and read of it, as removed, enlarged, every way altered.
+Things alter so fast in these times."
+
+"You think so," returned the captain, with compassion; "but you should
+come over and see _me_ afore you talk about _that_.  Wa'al, now.  This
+desk, this paper,--this paper, this desk," said the captain, ruminating
+and walking about, and looking, in his uneasy abstraction, into Mr.
+Pettifer's hat on a table, among other things.  "This desk, this
+paper,--this paper, this desk," the captain continued, musing and roaming
+about the room, "I'd give--"
+
+However, he gave nothing, but took up his steward's hat instead, and
+stood looking into it, as if he had just come into church.  After that he
+roamed again, and again said, "This desk, belonging to this house of
+Dringworth Brothers, America Square, London City--"
+
+Mr. Pettifer, still strangely moved, and now more moved than before, cut
+the captain off as he backed across the room, and bespake him thus:--
+
+"Captain Jorgan, I have been wishful to engage your attention, but I
+couldn't do it.  I am unwilling to interrupt Captain Jorgan, but I must
+do it.  _I_ knew something about that house."
+
+The captain stood stock-still and looked at him,--with his (Mr.
+Pettifer's) hat under his arm.
+
+"You're aware," pursued his steward, "that I was once in the broking
+business, Captain Jorgan?"
+
+"I was aware," said the captain, "that you had failed in that calling,
+and in half the businesses going, Tom."
+
+"Not quite so, Captain Jorgan; but I failed in the broking business.  I
+was partners with my brother, sir.  There was a sale of old office
+furniture at Dringworth Brothers' when the house was moved from America
+Square, and me and my brother made what we call in the trade a Deal
+there, sir.  And I'll make bold to say, sir, that the only thing I ever
+had from my brother, or from any relation,--for my relations have mostly
+taken property from me instead of giving me any,--was an old desk we
+bought at that same sale, with a crack in it.  My brother wouldn't have
+given me even that, when we broke partnership, if it had been worth
+anything."
+
+"Where is that desk now?" said the captain.
+
+"Well, Captain Jorgan," replied the steward, "I couldn't say for certain
+where it is now; but when I saw it last,--which was last time we were
+outward bound,--it was at a very nice lady's at Wapping, along with a
+little chest of mine which was detained for a small matter of a bill
+owing."
+
+The captain, instead of paying that rapt attention to his steward which
+was rendered by the other three persons present, went to Church again, in
+respect of the steward's hat.  And a most especially agitated and
+memorable face the captain produced from it, after a short pause.
+
+"Now, Tom," said the captain, "I spoke to you, when we first came here,
+respecting your constitutional weakness on the subject of sun-stroke."
+
+"You did, sir."
+
+"Will my slow friend," said the captain, "lend me his arm, or I shall
+sink right back'ards into this blessed steward's cookery?  Now, Tom,"
+pursued the captain, when the required assistance was given, "on your
+oath as a steward, didn't you take that desk to pieces to make a better
+one of it, and put it together fresh,--or something of the kind?"
+
+"On my oath I did, sir," replied the steward.
+
+"And by the blessing of Heaven, my friends, one and all," cried the
+captain, radiant with joy,--"of the Heaven that put it into this Tom
+Pettifer's head to take so much care of his head against the bright
+sun,--he lined his hat with the original leaf in Tregarthen's
+writing,--and here it is!"
+
+With that the captain, to the utter destruction of Mr. Pettifer's
+favourite hat, produced the book-leaf, very much worn, but still legible,
+and gave both his legs such tremendous slaps that they were heard far off
+in the bay, and never accounted for.
+
+"A quarter past five p.m.," said the captain, pulling out his watch, "and
+that's thirty-three hours and a quarter in all, and a pritty run!"
+
+How they were all overpowered with delight and triumph; how the money was
+restored, then and there, to Tregarthen; how Tregarthen, then and there,
+gave it all to his daughter; how the captain undertook to go to
+Dringworth Brothers and re-establish the reputation of their forgotten
+old clerk; how Kitty came in, and was nearly torn to pieces, and the
+marriage was reappointed, needs not to be told.  Nor how she and the
+young fisherman went home to the post-office to prepare the way for the
+captain's coming, by declaring him to be the mightiest of men, who had
+made all their fortunes,--and then dutifully withdrew together, in order
+that he might have the domestic coast entirely to himself.  How he
+availed himself of it is all that remains to tell.
+
+Deeply delighted with his trust, and putting his heart into it, he raised
+the latch of the post-office parlour where Mrs. Raybrock and the young
+widow sat, and said,--
+
+"May I come in?"
+
+"Sure you may, Captain Jorgan!" replied the old lady.  "And good reason
+you have to be free of the house, though you have not been too well used
+in it by some who ought to have known better.  I ask your pardon."
+
+"No you don't, ma'am," said the captain, "for I won't let you.  Wa'al, to
+be sure!"
+
+By this time he had taken a chair on the hearth between them.
+
+"Never felt such an evil spirit in the whole course of my life!  There!  I
+tell you!  I could a'most have cut my own connection.  Like the dealer in
+my country, away West, who when he had let himself be outdone in a
+bargain, said to himself, 'Now I tell you what!  I'll never speak to you
+again.'  And he never did, but joined a settlement of oysters, and
+translated the multiplication table into their language,--which is a fact
+that can be proved.  If you doubt it, mention it to any oyster you come
+across, and see if he'll have the face to contradict it."
+
+He took the child from her mother's lap and set it on his knee.
+
+"Not a bit afraid of me now, you see.  Knows I am fond of small people.  I
+have a child, and she's a girl, and I sing to her sometimes."
+
+"What do you sing?" asked Margaret.
+
+"Not a long song, my dear.
+
+   Silas Jorgan
+   Played the organ.
+
+That's about all.  And sometimes I tell her stories,--stories of sailors
+supposed to be lost, and recovered after all hope was abandoned."  Here
+the captain musingly went back to his song,--
+
+   Silas Jorgan
+   Played the organ;
+
+repeating it with his eyes on the fire, as he softly danced the child on
+his knee.  For he felt that Margaret had stopped working.
+
+"Yes," said the captain, still looking at the fire, "I make up stories
+and tell 'em to that child.  Stories of shipwreck on desert islands, and
+long delay in getting back to civilised lauds.  It is to stories the like
+of that, mostly, that
+
+   Silas Jorgan
+   Plays the organ."
+
+There was no light in the room but the light of the fire; for the shades
+of night were on the village, and the stars had begun to peep out of the
+sky one by one, as the houses of the village peeped out from among the
+foliage when the night departed.  The captain felt that Margaret's eyes
+were upon him, and thought it discreetest to keep his own eyes on the
+fire.
+
+"Yes; I make 'em up," said the captain.  "I make up stories of brothers
+brought together by the good providence of GOD,--of sons brought back to
+mothers, husbands brought back to wives, fathers raised from the deep,
+for little children like herself."
+
+Margaret's touch was on his arm, and he could not choose but look round
+now.  Next moment her hand moved imploringly to his breast, and she was
+on her knees before him,--supporting the mother, who was also kneeling.
+
+"What's the matter?" said the captain.  "What's the matter?
+
+   Silas Jorgan
+   Played the--
+
+Their looks and tears were too much for him, and he could not finish the
+song, short as it was.
+
+"Mistress Margaret, you have borne ill fortune well.  Could you bear good
+fortune equally well, if it was to come?"
+
+"I hope so.  I thankfully and humbly and earnestly hope so!"
+
+"Wa'al, my dear," said the captain, "p'rhaps it has come.  He's--don't be
+frightened--shall I say the word--"
+
+"Alive?"
+
+"Yes!"
+
+The thanks they fervently addressed to Heaven were again too much for the
+captain, who openly took out his handkerchief and dried his eyes.
+
+"He's no further off," resumed the captain, "than my country.  Indeed,
+he's no further off than his own native country.  To tell you the truth,
+he's no further off than Falmouth.  Indeed, I doubt if he's quite so fur.
+Indeed, if you was sure you could bear it nicely, and I was to do no more
+than whistle for him--"
+
+The captain's trust was discharged.  A rush came, and they were all
+together again.
+
+This was a fine opportunity for Tom Pettifer to appear with a tumbler of
+cold water, and he presently appeared with it, and administered it to the
+ladies; at the same time soothing them, and composing their dresses,
+exactly as if they had been passengers crossing the Channel.  The extent
+to which the captain slapped his legs, when Mr. Pettifer acquitted
+himself of this act of stewardship, could have been thoroughly
+appreciated by no one but himself; inasmuch as he must have slapped them
+black and blue, and they must have smarted tremendously.
+
+He couldn't stay for the wedding, having a few appointments to keep at
+the irreconcilable distance of about four thousand miles.  So next
+morning all the village cheered him up to the level ground above, and
+there he shook hands with a complete Census of its population, and
+invited the whole, without exception, to come and stay several months
+with him at Salem, Mass., U.S.  And there as he stood on the spot where
+he had seen that little golden picture of love and parting, and from
+which he could that morning contemplate another golden picture with a
+vista of golden years in it, little Kitty put her arms around his neck,
+and kissed him on both his bronzed cheeks, and laid her pretty face upon
+his storm-beaten breast, in sight of all,--ashamed to have called such a
+noble captain names.  And there the captain waved his hat over his head
+three final times; and there he was last seen, going away accompanied by
+Tom Pettifer Ho, and carrying his hands in his pockets.  And there,
+before that ground was softened with the fallen leaves of three more
+summers, a rosy little boy took his first unsteady run to a fair young
+mother's breast, and the name of that infant fisherman was Jorgan
+Raybrock.
+
+
+
+
+FOOTNOTES
+
+
+{1}  Dicken's didn't write chapters three and four and they are omitted
+in this edition.  The story continues with Captain Jorgan and Alfred at
+Lanrean.
+
+
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