song. Was he inspired? Insane? What was it? And they
listened with awe-struck faces, as the giant pointed down into
the blue depths far below, and went on.

"And I saw him sitting in his cabin, like a valiant gentle-
man of Spain; and his officers were sitting round him, with
their swords upon the table at the wine. And the prawns and
the crayfish and the rockling, they swam in and out above their
heads: but Don Guzman he never heeded, but sat still, and
drank his wine. Then he took a locket from his bosom; and
I heard him speak, Will, and he said: 'Here's the picture of
my fair and true lady; drink to her, Señors all.' Then he spoke
to me, Will, and called me, right up through the oar-weed and
the sea: 'We have had a fair quarrel, Señor; it is time to be
friends once more. My wife and your brother have forgiven
me; so your honour takes no stain.' And I answered, 'We are
friends, Don Guzman; God has judged our quarrel, and not we.'
Then he said, 'I sinned, and I am punished.' And I said, 'And,
Señor, so am I.' Then he held out his hand to me, Cary; and
I stooped to take it, and awoke."

He ceased: and they looked in his face again. It was ex-
hausted, but clear and gentle, like the face of a new-born babe.
Gradually his head dropped upon his breast again; he was either
swooning or sleeping, and they had much ado to get him home.
There he lay for eight and forty hours, in a quiet doze; then
arose suddenly, called for food, ate heartily, and seemed, saving
his eyesight, as whole and sound as ever. The surgeon bade
them get him home to Northam as soon as possible, and he was
willing enough to go. So the next day the Vengeance sailed,
leaving behind a dozen men to seize and keep in the queen's
name any goods which should be washed up from the wreck.

"Would you hear a Spanish lady,
How she woo'd an Englishman?
Garments gay and rich as may be,
Deck'd with jewels had she on."

Elizabethan Ballad.

IT was the first of October. The morning was bright and still;
the skies were dappled modestly from east to west with soft

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