often baffles the mariner who wishes to go to the westward.
All night long they struggled through the billows, with the
huge wall of Cape Codera a thousand feet above their heads to
the left, and beyond it again, bank upon bank of mountain,
bathed in the yellow moonlight.

Morning showed them a large ship, which had passed them
during the night upon the opposite course, and was now a good
ten miles to the eastward. Yeo was for going back and taking
her. Of the latter he made a matter of course; and the former
was easy enough, for the breeze blowing dead off the land, was
a "soldier's wind, there and back again," for either ship; but
Amyas and Frank were both unwilling.

"Why, Yeo, you said that one day more would bring us to
La Guayra."

"All the more reason, sir, for doing the Lord's work thor-
oughly, when He has brought us safely so far on our journey."
"She can pass well enough, and no loss."

"Ah, sirs, sirs, she is delivered into your hands, and you
will have to give an account of her."

"My good Yeo," said Frank, "I trust we shall give good
account enough of many a tall Spaniard before we return:
but you know surely that La Guayra, and the salvation of one
whom we believe dwells there, was our first object in this ad-
venture."

Yeo shook his head sadly. "Ah, sirs, a lady brought
Captain Oxenham to ruin."

"You do not dare to compare her with this one?" said
Frank and Cary, both in a breath.

"God forbid, gentlemen: but no adventure will prosper,
unless there is a single eye to the Lord's work; and that is, as
I take it, to cripple the Spaniard, and exalt her Majesty the
queen. And I had thought that nothing was more dear than
that to Captain Leigh's heart."

Amyas stood somewhat irresolute. His duty to the queen
bade him follow the Spanish vessel: his duty to his vow, to go
on to La Guayra. It may seem a far-fetched dilemma. He
found it a practical one enough.

However, the counsel of Frank prevailed, and on to La
Guayra he went. He half hoped that the Spaniard would see
and attack them. However, he went on his way to the east-
ward; which if he had not done, my story had had a very
different ending.

About mid-day a canoe, the first which they had seen, came

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