s no
part I have repeated more earnestly than `Lead us not into temptation.'
My poor shipmate never completely recovered from the hardships to which
he had been exposed; his mind, too, was always haunted with the dreadful
scenes he had witnessed, and he often told me that he never could show
his face in England, lest he should be recognised by those he had
wronged. He died the day before we made the coast of England. The ship
was paid off, but I found the naval service so much to my taste, and
there was so little on shore to attract me, that I the next day joined
another fitting out for the Indian station. After this, I visited in
one ship or another most parts of the world. But I think, Doctor
Morgan, you and your lady and the young gentlefolks will be getting
tired, so I'll put off an account of my adventures till another evening.
One thing I must say now, though. I looked upon it as a blessed day on
which I joined the `Rover,' where I met Mister Morgan, and yet there was
a day which I have reason to call still more blessed, when we were off
the coast of Africa."

"Well, well, Tom. Don't talk of that now," said Frank. "I just did
what every Christian man should do. I put the truth before you, and you
believed it. I did not put myself to any inconvenience even to serve
Tom, while he risked his life to save mine. That was after the `Rover'
had come home and been paid off, and we belonged to the `Kestrel,' and
were sent out to the Pacific. I had an idea before we went there that
we were to find at all times calm seas and sunshine. I soon discovered
my mistake. We were caught in a terrific gale when in the neighbourhood
of coral islands and reefs. I had gone aloft to shorten sail, when the
ship gave an unexpected lurch, and I was sent clean overboard. I felt
that I must be lost, for the ship was driving away from me, and darkness
was not far off, when I saw that some one had thrown a grating into the
sea, and immediately afterwards a man leaped in after it. He was
swimming towards me. There seemed a prospect of my being saved. Still,
how the man who had thus nobly risked his life for my sake, and I could
ever regain the ship, I could not tell. I struck out with all my
strength to support myself, and prayed heartily. I soon recognised Tom
Holman's voice, cheering me up. He clutched me by the collar, and aided
by him I gained the grating. Two or three spars had been thrown in
after it, and, getting hol