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Then 3 you come into it all.” _——-s- & Who gets it if I die: 2” asked Dibble. _ “Well,” coughed his aunt; “ahem! It would come to me.” “Oh, indeed !” said Dibbie. | ‘sent me on here.” Be Miss Elegantine sat with a frozen look on her face. yee regarded her with a curious sternness on his own. It was so much at variance with his customary expression. “What you intended,” he said, slowly, “ hasn’t come off. Instead of being killed by the climate—I used to be a seedy sort of chap—it has done me good. And the life here is making something of a man of me. Therefore I don’t feel inclined to say so much as I should otherwise have done. . - .- money of your own, aunt?” ) = “T had, when your father died,” she answered, But I was deluded with the “Then that is why you AG? q “enough to live on. -. promise of a fortune by a rascal of a bucket-shop % -keeper—as a sham stockbroker is rightly named— and was robbed of every farthing.” ig The face of Dibble softened. | _ All right,” he said ; “TI have nothing more to say. You sha’n’t starve. How can I get at my money?” — a She showed him thelawyer’s letter, and finallyit was decided that they both should write to the pro- fessional man, place everything in his hands, and leave the future conducting of Dibble’s affairs to him. “You shall have fifty pounds a year at present,” - said Dibble to his aunt, “and I will have some things I want sent out here. Where will you live, aunt 2” ; “ Considering all things,” she replied, “I sale remain here. _ the Farrells.” _ Dibble was agreeable, and he promised his aunt _ that he would never mention his private affairs to _ anyone on the island, beyond stating the fact that he ¥ ras richer than he thought. eet ev ening Dibble was busy writing to “his tor,” in forming him of the girsnae ment he ae a OLA’ 54 ' : ne hs : iy ig 4 + a ot r ? r} > Res ee my iy re ae y "ARRIVAL OF ‘THE MAILS. Have you any | I think I can come to some arrangement with I ae fF 5 na ik he non Vans i desired to be Pale for his aunt, and expressing his: a entire satisfaction with the life HE was leading. oe Finally he made out.a list of things he wanted sent. _ on, and among them were two Winchester repeating-- | rifles, one for Jim and the other for Morse. |e With a prudence one would hardly have given him: credit for, he did not say they were boys, but re~ ferred to them as “the two managers of everything __ on the island,” leaving the lawyer to infer, as he: — naturally would do, that they were men. He There were other things in the list, mainly for | _— amusement, and Dibble, true to his word, said a nothing that night, nor for many days, on the sub- ject of his change of fortune. “ie The boys were busy that night, writing home, Pe . with the main object of convincing all whom it might, concern that they were very happy, and wished tong remain. They also referred to possible rumours that, i might reach England, and asked their friends to pay: “ no heed to them. A Giuseppo was going to act as the medium for ee conveying letters to Minorca in his boat. A double | 4 object would be attained by his so doing. The cl mails would go quicker, and he would be able to get io warning of anything like a movement against the — island boys. a 2 Finally, all who desired to receive anything roca i. home were to ask to have it sent to Minorca. Dibble. had to open his letter to make this addition, for it: — ; was a late thought of Jim’s. | BP Morse asked him why Minorca, when there were- i plenty « of small trading-boats that would have bron * them what they required. th, . “My idea,” said Jim, “is to isolate this place as: : much as possible from the world. We want no. — strangers here to see what we are doing or how we: e are living.” Ra ‘You areright, Jim,” assented Morse. as “There is such a list of boundless possibles on this. island,” said Jim, “such as we may never find apa while we live, that I don’t feel disposed to be- 2 ousted from it. Two years here will be worth, be twenty years of ordinary life. There is the secret of 1 the castle tower to get at. Now, you can put your: ingenious head to work to find out a way to oe h those closed doors. There is the ‘Cagliula’ am wreck, and the ‘ Orsini’ is lying on the shore. Both My are ours by right of having found them, and much: may be done with the materials. Then there is ther _ x Dead City, that wants a thorough overhauling, and the- woods and the Cay es ay Morse, there is the worl ( of a lifetime before us.” fhe ‘‘ There is,” said Morse, drawing in a deep breath j “ possibly I may discover some new chemical.” a _ “Don’t let it be an explosive one, then,” interpose Jim, ae a ae the mh are et ae