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ee ee ——ll ¥ - Merle, The Mutineer. 31 chain hung from the fob, two articles the mother had not seen for many a long day, and which they had looked upon among the things that were. ‘Louis, my boy, you seem most happy; I am glad to see you looking so well,”’ said Mrs, Chandeleur, with a sad remembrance of how often he came home, flushed with wine, seedy in dress, and reckless. “Tam Pappy, mother; I am as gay as a sea-gull after a ship biscuit, and T have cause to be; but, do not watch me so, sister mine, for Iam not, as usually is the case, drunk; sur ma parole d'honneur, chere seur /”’ he said, as she glanced somewhat anxiously at ‘““No more cabarets for me; no more rioting and card-playing, for Ihave said to vices ‘ get thee behind me, Satan,’ and they got ; so I’m ahead. ‘* But to take a reef in my tongue and come down toa steady breeze—J am rich |” a Rich!’ echoed both voices, while the mother ded: “If you are good, Louis, as you say you are, I will care far more than if you were worth thousands.”’ <i 1? both, mother; now listen and I will tell ou all, xs The last night of Carnival, Iwasa pauvre diable, sipping a glass of wine with Merton Ainslie in the lit- tle yacht his good luck had got him command of, and a good angel drifted across our bows, in the shape of an old gentleman, who gave me a berth as second luff with him to Vera Cruz. “But there Yellow Jack’’—Merton Ainslie had told all others, except Mildred Monteith, that the yel- low fever had caused the death of Merle—“ got hold of the good old man, and he left Ainslie to run the craft back, gave the crew treble wages, and Mert and myself a cool thousand dollars. ‘Arriving in port here, we found the owner of the yacht had gone to his home on the lake shore, and we collected the crew and took the vessel there. **'When we came back strange things had happen- ed, for Merton Ainslie’s old uncle in New York had died leaving him an enormous fortune—what is the matter, sis?” ‘**T am so glad for Merton, brother.” ‘Yes, yes, upon the rinciple of ‘with all my worldly goods thee endow,’ ha, ha! But I won’t tease you, Fidele, but Ss with my story. ‘* Now, Mert showed himself the true man he is, and kept a promise he made me if I would give up the two worst of my many vices—which was to set me up in business. ‘Three days ago he gave me in hand fifteen thou- sand dollars, telling me to go and pick out the best vessel Il could find, and purchase it, which I did in short order, securing a brigantine of splendid carry- ing capacity, some five hundred tons burden, and a witch for sailing. **She had to go at forced sale and I got her for twelve thousand down, and she is in trim for sea without extra expense. ‘Mert then told me to get a suitable crew, and I secured a half a score seamen, two mates, a cook and cabin-boy, making fourteen all told. “Then I got some little barkers—”’ ‘* Little what, my son?” ‘‘ Barkers! bull-dogs! sixes! Oh, bother it all, can- non, mother; six of them and a Long Tom, an eight- een.”’ ‘“ Who, Louis?” ‘A Long Tom—that is an eighteeen-pounder large gun. Thus the crew is made up, and the vessel complete.” ‘** And you are to be captain, Louis?” ‘Captain, ay, mother, and owner, too, for Merton first gave me a half share in the brigantine and I ac- tually swooned away; when I came back to con- ee EY he gave me the whole vessel and all, and --I died.”’ ** Oh, Louis!” **Oh, my son!”’ It was all that the mother and daughter could say in their astonishment and joy. After a glance at the faces of his sister and mother, Louis went on in the same off-hand manner: “It’s a fact, dead sure! I am now ene Louis Chandeleur, of the b tine Fidele, bound from New Orleans to Monte Video, for my vessel is now loading for that port with a cargo of which I am one-fifth owner, for Mert turned over the balance of the fifteen thousand to me, and I invested most of it; but I leave you, mother and Fidele, the one thousand which I got in my cruise on the yacht,’ and the young sailor counted out the golden eagles from his belt, at the same time enjoying the surprise of his most attentive lookers-on. At length the mother sadly asked: ‘* When do you sail, Louis?” **Tn three days, mother.”’ **So soon? And how long will you be away?” ‘Six months, I expect, perhaps longer though, as I shall bring back a cargo.” ‘*And Merton, where is he?’’ asked Fidele. - rey a <4 uncle Simon—I mean busy as a pawn- broker in dull times. You see he is hag fen ele- gant house up-town, and furnishing it handsomely, and with carriages, horses and servants, he intenc to cut a swell.”’ Fidele blushed: she felt she knew the bird he was ar em his cage for. A poe an she knew not how frail was the na- ture of m dcind ! And yet, joy had again come to the hearts of Mrs. Chandeleur and her daughter, and the two knelt long at their gore that ee, asking blessin upon the h of the noble friend who had made them so happy, and praying that the wandering son and brother might never more go astray. Ah, gentle reader, what poor blind mortals we all are in this world; and yet happy was it for a while that the vision of the mother and daughter was obscured by the bright rays of hope, for they saw not the clouds gathering around the horizon of their anticipations, to cast in gloom their sunny skies, for gold ofttimes brings with it a bitter, lasting curse, and none there are who ever find gold without alloy. 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