the
captain's estimate,--which was rather low,--he took about four hundred
dollars' worth of goods from the island. Mollie, as her father's heir,
was the owner of the property, subject to Noddy's claim for salvage.
With Mr. Lincoln's aid the accounts were settled. Mollie insisted upon
paying the mate and the three seamen their wages up to the time they
would reach their native land. This, with their own passage, consumed
nearly the whole sum.

Besides the property saved from the island, there were about sixteen
hundred dollars in gold and silver, and the valuable nautical
instruments of Captain McClintock, making a total of over two thousand
dollars. Though the disposition of this property was properly a subject
for the maritime courts to settle, Mr. Lincoln and the officers of the
ship talked it over, and decided that one half belonged to Mollie, in
right of her father, and the other half to Noddy, as salvage,--which is
the part of property saved from a wrecked imperilled ship, awarded to
those who save it.

Noddy at first positively objected to this decree, and refused to take a
dollar from the poor orphan girl; but when the captain told him that a
court would probably award him a larger share, and when Mollie almost
cried because he refused, he consented to take it; but it was with a
determination to have it applied to her use when he got home. The whale
ship filled away when the goods had been taken on board, and weeks and
months she stood on her course, till the welcome shores of their native
land gladdened the sight of the exiled children. Mollie had been a great
favorite with the officers and crew during the voyage, and many of them
were the wiser and the better for the gentle words she spoke to them.
The captain sold the nautical instruments, and the money was divided
according to the decision of the council and officers. Noddy was now the
possessor of about twelve hundred dollars, which was almost a fortune to
a boy of twelve. It had been "work and win" to some purpose, in spite of
the disastrous conclusion of the voyage.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE.

The captain of the whale ship very kindly took the young voyagers to his
own house until their affairs were settled up. He had dealt fairly and
justly by them in all things, and both were grateful to him for the
interest he had manifested in their welfare.

"What are you going to do now, Noddy?" asked Mollie, after the
instruments ha