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20 needed but a glance into his warm and earnest face to decide. “ If they aint goin’ to be happy folks it'll be ’cause the sun will quit shinin’,” remarked Phil. ‘It’s jist as pretty asa pictur. And only look at their eyes! I dont b’lieve there’s nothin’ in the world they hold "cept one another.”’ ‘*T hope they will let me shake hands with them,” said Susy, timidly, as the happ couple came down a a amid ‘the congratulations of numerous ends. Susy’s wish was gratified, for they stopped and shook hands warmly with the whole party, and gave them the most press invitation to attend the wedding reception at Mr. Russell’s home, where they intended to reside after a short wedding jour- ney. Mr. Russell and his bride were back, and the re- ception, with its glow of light, its glitter of dress, its eager buzz of congratulation, and its destruction of cake and refreshments, was well over before their attention was required at the trial of the conspir- ators, who still remained in prison. Efforts had been made to bail Mr. Cunningham out, but the charges against him were so serious and 80 well substantiated that no one could be found willing to risk a large sum of money on his —— The Strongbow had long since sailed, with a new captain and mate, before her late captain was put in the prisoner’s dock charged with the high crimes and misdemeanors of which he had been guilty. The three prisoners were given separate trials, as the character of the evidence against them some- what differed. But the proofs of their villainy were so evident that the court felt almost like dealing with them as if they had committed the murders which they had so desperately attempted. There was the strongest interest manifested in the exciting stories told by the boys, and confirmed in their important details by the evidence of Alice, and by the intercepted check and letters. There were minor witnesses whose testimony tend- ed to corroborate that of the principal ones, and the result of the trials was quick convictions by the jury, and severe sentences by the judge. The two principal villains, Mr. Cunningham and Captain Monroe, were sentenced each to ten years’ imprisonment, while Tim Fagan, as a less guilty accessory, received.a sentence of six years’ con- finement. There was <en eepen | saddening in their demeanor as they were removed from court. Captain Mon- roe was so overcome with the retribution which had befallen him that he staggered, while his hag- gard face looked pitifully round on the assembled multitude. Fagan, on the contrary, was bold and defiant. He even laughed as he met the eyes of a friend. But his laugh had in it that nervous strain which showed that all this bravado was assumed to mask a trembling heart. ‘unningham was the only one of the three who had the merit of courage to sustain his crime. His step was steady and assured, his face resolute in its expression, yet there was a sadness in his eyes which showed that the soul of the villain was clothed in despair. | And so the vail falls which shuts them out from ow’ little world, and from the world of men for i and years, while they are suffering unseen i penalty which their crimes have brought upon em. As for our other characters, there was no further obstacle in the way of Alice’s falling into her inher- itance. Mr. Russell was already in comfortable circumstances, and the two fortunes in one made them wealthy. Not that they cared for the osten- tation of wealth. But they both loved beautiful things, and their house on Madison avenue became to our young friends like a palace of fairy-land, in its profusion of pictures, statuettes, and other artis- tic re ayy, For Mr. and Mrs. Russell never forgot the debt which they owed to the three young folks to whose helping hand their present oneness was due. Their Sous was always free to Phil, Dick and Susy, and many were the happy days of boy and girl life spent with these considerate friends. Nor was more substantial recognifion of the in- valuable services of our youthful heroes wanting. Mrs. Hardy was enabled to move from her straigh ened quarters into apartments which gladdened her soul, both from their amplitude and their comforta- ble furniture. She blossomed, in this sun of pros- perity, into the happiest of housekeepers. Susy’s parents, too, felt the same sun shine on them, and were enabled to remove to the more stylish neighborhood now inhabited by their old neighbor. This was thoroughly to the satisfaction of Phil and Susy, whose boy and girl affection still kept uP. But, hil is not now the diminutive and vagabond- ish wharf-rat which we first knew him. He has rown into a tall, shapely youth, always neatly ressed, and his old slipshod speech corrected by the influence of several years of school life. In fact, his native quickness of apprehension is making him quite a scholar. : As for Dick, he is Dirty Dick no more. Having once found out the benefits of the Turkish bath he could never be induced to go back to his old sloven- ly ways. The influence of his new wedding-suit helped to produce this effect. He had never pos- sessed good clothes before, and became so in ilove with his improved aprennes as to effect a radical ebange in his whole disposition. About this time he lost his only remaining parent. and was left a homeless orphan. Mr. Russell at once took him in charge, finding him a home with the Hardys, and sending him to school in company Phil Hardy, the Boss Boy. Their benefactor is just now a little troubled in mind about what business he had better put them at, so as to make them useful and creditable mem- bers of society. “*T dont care much,” says Phil, in something of his old manner, ‘‘ what he does with me. I have a notion, though, that I’d like to learn to be asea-cap- tain, or some nice business of that sort.” ‘Td ten times sooner be a farmer,” puts in. Dick. “IT dont like salt water nohow.”’ ‘“Wouldn’t one of you like to be a Governor and the other a Commodore?” asks Susy, demurely. ‘*T wouldn’t climb for anything but the top of the hill, if I were you.”’ ‘*But you aint us, which I am very glad of,”’ re- lies Phil, looking affectionately at the tall, bright- aced, beautiful girl, before him. “I dont think I would like you much if — were anything like Dick or me, for I cant see that there is much worth loving about us.”’ ‘That is where your eyesight fails you, Phil,” re- sponds Susy, laughing, and pressing his hand affec- tionately. ‘I wouldn’t want everybody to know how good a fellow you are.” ‘They can know as much as they are the nicest girl under the sun,’ thusiastically. ‘* I bet there’s none of them who can take my little sweetheart from me, try as much as they please.” Susy’s reply was a look as if she fully indorsed | Phil’s views in this respect, and loved him too dear- ly to ever turn from him, And so we must leave them, stillin the boy and girl phase of life, but growing into such ripe promise of manhood and womanhood, that their friends, the Russells, are delighted with their proteges, while Mrs. Hardy is so happy that the day is hardly long enough to contain her measure of perfect satisfac- tion. 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