The King's Highway

elieve that the two personages, the officer and the little boy, whom we saw embark for the brig which was wrecked, were amongst the persons who perished upon that occasion. True it is that every

of earnest and deep affection. In such mute conference they remained for some five or ten minutes; while the hardy sailors pulled away at the oars, their course towards the vessel lying right in the wind's eye. After a minute or two more, Lennard Sherbrooke turned round, and gazed back towards the shore, where he could n

boy-"I am only sorry to g

ured away, making no very great progress against the wind. At the distance of about a mile or a mile and a half from the shore, Lennard Sherbrooke turned round towards the man who was steer

herbrooke. "I should not wonder if she w

man nearer still, he said, in a low voice, "Come, my man, I have something to tell

must presume to deal with, to express his astonishment, that after having been hired by the other gentleman to carry the person who spoke t

g a muscle, and then replied, with perfect calmness, "My good friend,

elations; and I have a fancy, my man, that unless I prevent any one from knowing my course, and where I am, I may be betrayed where I go

erted manfully, that it was utterly impossible for them to proceed upon such a voyage at once. In the first place, they had no provisions; in the next place, there was the wife and children, who would not know what was become of t

ith very slow and difficult efforts. Every moment the wind rose higher and higher, and th

e of the sky, pouring forth from the horizon to the very shore a long line of blood-red light, which, resting upon the boiling

the waves might be seen distinctly, even to the spot in the horizon where they seemed to struggle wit

person to whom they were addressed. I say SELDOM, for there have been instances known, in remote times, of people being convinc

o him. His countenance brightened; a rapid and brief conversation followed in a low tone, which ende

replied the fisherman, gr

d his passenger; but the seaman gave a rapid glance to the sky, to the long spit of land

een with the alteration of his passenger's determination. His orders were nevertheless obeyed promptly, the head of the boat was turned away from the wind, the canvas caught the gale, and away she went like lightning, heeling

of the seamen evidently became greater. The wind by this time was blowing quite a hurricane, and the rushing roaring sound of the gale and the ocean was quite deafening. But about half an hour after sunset that peculiar angry roar, whi

he neighbouring headlands was found in smoother water and a lighter gale, as the boat glided calmly and steadily on, into a small bay, not many hundred miles from Baltimore. The rest of their voyage, till they reached the shore again, was safe an

easily found in a neighbouring village, and, on the following day, one, and only one, of the boat's crew went over to the spot from which they had set out on the preceding evening. He returned with another man, both loaded with provisions. There was much coming and going between the village and