ok the helm away from him by force."

Paul proceeded to give a more detailed account of the events which had
transpired on board of the Flyaway since her departure from Portsmouth
harbor. Tom and the other mutineers expressed their sorrow for what
they had done, and were ready to submit to such punishment as the
captain thought it necessary to inflict upon them. But Paul told him how
penitent they had been, that Tom had promised to reform his life, and he
thought they had already been severely punished for their misconduct by
the terrors of the long and anxious night they had passed through. This
he proved by showing that all of them had refused to follow Frank's plan
of continuing the cruise.

"But they punished you more than they punished themselves, by keeping
you on deck all night," said Captain Littleton.

"It was not punishment to me, for I was innocent, and they were guilty,"
replied Paul.

"You are right, my boy; it is guilt that makes us cowards in the midst
of peril. You plead so strongly for them, Paul, that I shall forgive all
except Frank. He must be a passenger in that fishing schooner, which is
bound for Boston. When I arrived at Portsmouth this morning, I learned
from Captain Gordon that the boys had run away with the yacht. I
supposed, of course, you had wrecked her in the gale and the fog, and I
chartered that vessel, which was on the point of sailing for Boston, to
go in search of you. I thank God you are all safe."

Frank Thompson, in spite of his earnest protest, was put on board the
schooner, and the Flyaway's head was turned to the north. Captains
Gordon and Briskett resumed their places, and Henry Littleton spent the
whole afternoon in listening to Paul's animated narrative of the cruise
of the yacht to seaward.

In the course of the night the Flyaway reached Portland. But we have not
space to detail the adventures of the Teneans in the harbor, or to give
the particulars of the race between them and the North Star Boat Club.
On the following Saturday night the Flyaway arrived at Bayville, and
Mrs. Duncan once more pressed to her heart her darling boys.

CHAPTER XXI.

PAUL ADVANCES LITTLE BY LITTLE, AND THE STORY ENDS.

For several years Paul pursued his calling as a fisherman; and as he
grew older the business became more profitable. Before he was
twenty-one, the mortgage on the house was paid off; and when he was free
he had saved up quite a handsome sum of money, with which he