id Glossin, producing some cold meat ask of spirits. The latter Hatteraick seized upon, and applied to his mouth; ra hearty draught, he exclaimed with pture, « Das schmeckt!--That is goodms the liver!» Then broke into the t of a High-Dutch song,badplje lonid thin nd an aged 16 Saufen bier, und brante-wein,llowsrech Schmeissen alle die fenstern ein; 1 said, my hearty Captain!» cried Gloseavouring to catch the tone of revelry,— und blor redeter it, my bully-boy! Why, you're alive w! And now let us talk about our bu business, if you please," said Hathagel and donner! - mine was done got out of the bilboes.» e patience, my good friend; I'll conu our interests are just the same."> raick gave a short dry cough, and Glossin ause proceeded. « How came you to let the boy escape?»> Why, fluch and blitzen! he was no charge of mine. Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the Middleburgh house of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks-he gave him for a foot-boy. Me let him escape?-the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him."» Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then?»> Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old man's heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India - I believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up the free trade for many a day, if the youngster got back to Scotland.» « Do you think he knows much of his own origin now ?>> « Deyvil! how should I tell what he knows now? But he remembered something of it long. When he was but ten years old, he persuaded another Satan's limb of an English bastard like himself to steal my lugger's khan - boat — what do call it you to return to his country, as he called it-fire him! Before we could overtake them, they had the skiff out of channel as far as the Duerloo-the boat might have been lost.>> " I wish to Heaven she had with him in her!» Why, I was so angry myself, that, sapper ment! I did split himduck; so I teach him m he was sinki plague you pond! W and forgott shot by the Why w Aye, a fair. I did give him a tip over the side - but sim - the comical little devil swam like a so I made him swim a-stern for a mile to him manners, and then took him in when s sinking. By the knocking Nicholas! he'll e you, now he's come over the herring When he was so high, he had the spirit nder and lightning. » ihree mist awanat | goom ow did he get back from India Pw nodern tutor hy, how should I know ?-the house there one up, and that gave us a shake at Middle, I think-so they sent me again to see could be done among my old acquaintances -for we held old stories were done away rgotten. So I had got a pretty trade on within the last two trips; but that stupid sfoot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on ad again, I suppose, with getting himself y the colonel-man." sini jasolD hy were not you with them?»oog soy lo hy, you see, sapperment! I fear nothingwas too far within land, and I might have scented.» se pilo sued rue. But to return to this youngster»—— ye, aye, donner and blitzen! he's your afJorda -How do you really know that he is in this ey Prog aimoon 1 monotusil tuo hy, Gabriel saw him up among the hills." abriel? who is he?» aids bds not fellow from the gypseys, that, about eighears since, was pressed on board that d-d fellow Pritchard's sloop of war— -It was he came off and gave us warning that the Shark was coming round upon us the day Kennedy was done; and he told us how Kennedy had given the information. The gypseys and Kennedy had some quarrel besides. He went to the East Indies in the same ship with your younker, and, sapperment! knew him well, though the other did not remember him. Gab kept out of his eye though, as he had served the States against England, and was a deserter to boot; and he sent us word directly, that we might know of his being here -though it does not concern us a rope's end.» << So he really is in this country then, Hatteraick, between friend and friend?» «Wetter and donner, yaw ! What do you me for?» take « A blood-thirsty, fearless miscreant !»> thought Glossin internally, but said aloud, «And which your people was it that shot young Hazle of wood?»> think we were mad? << Sturm-wetter! do ye none of us, man-Gott! the country was too hot for the trade already with that d-d frolic of Brown." Why, I am told it was Brown shot Hazlewood?» A light h confusion o Founker, as «< Not our lieutenant, I promise you; for he was laid six feet deep at Derncleugh the day before the thing happened. -Tausend deyvils, man! do ye think that he could rise out of the earth to shoot another mau ?» ht here began to break upon Glossin's on of ideas. «Did you not say that the r, as you call him, goes by the name of Polo blondlad i find aidates or Brown? yaw-Vanbeest Brown; old VanCrown of our Vanbeest and Vanbruggen m his own name -he did. » mid sim en," said Glossin, rubbing his hands, «< it by Heaven, who has committed this d what have we to do with that?» answerceraick. sin paused, and, fertile in expedients, ran over his project in his own mind, and ew near the smuggler with a confidential You know, my dear Hatteraick, it is our al business to get rid of this young man?>> ph!» answered Dirk Hatteraick.bind al ,» continued Glossin- « not that I would y personal harm to him-if-if-if we without. Now, he is liable to be seized y justice, both as bearing the same name ur lieutenant, who was engaged in that Woodbourne, and for firing at young wood with intent to kill or wound.». e, eye - but what good will that do you? loose again so soon as he shews himself other colours." e, my dear Dirk, well noticed, my friend ick! But there is ground enough for a ary imprisonment till he fetch his proofs ngland or elsewhere, my good friend. I |