a distress executed, but without it I am afraid there
are some of them who will never be ready to pay."

"Trust to our merciful Father, my dear lord," answered Mr Jamieson.
"Do your duty and try to serve Him. There is no use denying it, you are
not free from blame for this state of things, and I am very certain,
that may be said of the greater number of landlords of this country, so
the only advice I can give is to retrench for the future, and when you
come back, to set manfully to work to get your affairs in order."

"Thank you, Jamieson, I think your advice is excellent," said the
good-natured Earl; "farewell, I will try and follow it out."

Numbers of gentlemen, and farmers, and peasantry, accompanied the
carriages of the Earl and his party on horseback, as they took their way
towards Cork, whence the line-of-battle ship which was to take them on
board was to sail.

CHAPTER TEN.

We must now return to the West Indies. At length the frigate's boat
reached the line-of-battle ship. Numbers of persons were looking
through the ports. Denham's boat was one of the first on the starboard
side.

"We must lower the ladies first," said a voice from the entrance port.
"Stand ready to receive them, there is no time to be lost."

"All right," answered Denham, looking up.

At the same moment a chair was lowered from the entrance port. In an
instant, the occupant, a young lady, was released and placed in the
boat. Again the chair ascended, and another was lowered in the same
way. Denham, giving one glance at her countenance, saw that she was
fair and young, and having placed her in security, he had to attend to
those who followed. Three others were immediately lowered together.

"Now, my lord," said the voice of an officer, "you must go into the
boat."

"No, no, not till all the females are out of the ship," was the answer.

"They are being placed in the other boats; there is no time to be lost;
let me entreat you to descend," said the officer.

"Well, if I must go, I will obey you," answered the nobleman who had
been addressed, "but I trust all on board here will escape." As he
spoke he was lowered down into the boat.

"Come, some of you youngsters, follow him," said a voice; "there will be
but little time for the boats to make many trips between the ships;
come, I say, obey orders."

At that moment five or six young midshipmen came tumbling into the boat,
which now being more than sufficiently laden,