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2 MAN TO MAN. 209 islanders. After investigating the vicinity for several hours, and forming his determination to advise Faith against land- ing, he returned to the boat, and was soon rounding the little headland beyond which the Madcap was anchored. But lo! the sunny little haven slept like a lake with never a speck on its bosom, Afar to the west gleamed the sails of the vanished ship. ‘The Madcap had borne away his prize. CHAPTER XXII. MAN TO MAN. ' Senor Diez Valasco, captain of the Madcap, was the . scape-grace son of a wine merchant living at Mahon, on the Island of Minorca. The father bore a character of the highest respectability, but having committed the mistake of marrying the wrong woman—a pretty ballet girl—his children had disappointed his expectations. At an early age the boy, Diez, rebelled against the dis- cipline of the school at which he was placed, and went to sea without the knowledge of his parents. He made a voyage aboard a trading vessel as cabin-boy, and was absent in the East Indies for three years, where he learned the craft, the views, and the tastes of the Orien- fals, without acquiring any of their virtues. He returned Eomicbooks: (E(0) im