r the guilty remain unpunished. A
month since, how I wished you were not the heiress of a millionaire!"

"Why did you wish it? Did you think that gold would blacken my heart?"

"No, dear Emily, but it would have been ingratitude in me to win your
love, and thus destroy any other plan your father might have cherished."

"My father never had an avaricious disposition," replied Emily, warmly.

"Far from it; but he might have had some views, in regard to his
daughter, with which I might have interfered."

"But you were a rebel against his views, notwithstanding," said Emily,
with a smile, and a deep blush, which the darkness concealed from Henry.

"I should have been sorry to have heard you say so, then; but now,
Heaven bless you for the words!" replied Henry, with a warm pressure of
the hand.

[Illustration: Hatchie and Henry rescuing Emily from the Mississippi.
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"Madam," said Jaspar, who had stealthily approached, without the
knowledge of the lovers, "to your state-room! Captain Carroll, as the
guardian of this lady, I request your entire withdrawal, in future, from
her society."

"A request," replied Henry, proudly, "which I shall entirely disregard."

"Then, by--you will receive the penalty of your obstinacy!" said Jaspar,
in a passion.

"I am not to be intimidated by threats."

"Do not provoke him, Henry" said Emily, fearful for the safety of him
whom the last hour had doubly endeared to her.

"Mr. Dumont, _her_ request I will obey," and Carroll walked forward.

He paused by the side of the wheel-house, to hear the report of the
leadsman, who was sounding the depth of water, in obedience to the
command of the pilot, expressed in a single clang of the heavy bell.
Mechanically he had stopped, and with no interest in the matter he
listened to the monotonous reply, "Quarter less three," &c. He was about
to descend to the boiler deck, when a shrill shriek startled him from
his revery. There was no mistaking the sound of that voice! Without an
instant's hesitation, he called to the pilot to stop the boat, and, with
a few bounds, was by the side of Jaspar, who was calling lustily for
help. Henry, careless of his own safety, slid down to the gallery abaft
the ladies' cabin, and then sprang to the single pole upon which was
suspended the small boat. Before he could unloose the tackle, and lower
himself down, he heard a splash, and saw a man swimming towards the spot
where Emily had disappeared. Henry pl