ess, her hair gently lifting with the breeze, stood out
clear and unmistakable. He stopped. The maid stepped a little forward
and shaded her eyes with her hand. With an uncontrollable impulse his
arms stretched out.

"Dolly!"

A cry from the stile. A girl sprang forward, raced up the field, and
threw herself into his arms. "Johnnie! Johnnie! Thank God! thank
God! I dreamt you would come back and find me where we last met, just
like this!"

The next day the forest rang with the news that Johnnie Morgan was home
again, and foresters, miners, and fishers made so merry over the event
that Johnnie thought it worth while to have gone through so much in
order to give them such a jubilant time.

Three weeks afterwards the maidens chose pretty Dolly as "Queen of
May," and when she was crowned they led her to the church above the
river--all in her garlands gay--and there a tall, sun-browned youth
took her "for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer," till
death should part them. And there were rare junketings and feastings
to celebrate the union of the two woodland favourites.

Johnnie abode at home for one year. Then he was tempted to go again to
London, and from thence he went by sea to Plymouth. There he met the
admiral, his brother John, Jacob Whiddon, Sir John Trelawny, and other
sea-going worthies, and there was much talk concerning the Indies.

Johnnie came home, and one night he said to his wife Dorothy, "I have
been thinking that I left some honour behind me on the other side of
the world. Master Jeffreys sends me a letter this morning, and Sir
Walter hath written a postscript to it. I cannot forget what was done
at Panama, and there are some who should suffer for the cruelties done
to Nick and Ned Johnson and others who sailed on the _Golden Boar_.
The ship is fitting for another voyage, and I have still an interest in
her. What dost say, sweetheart? thou knowest the thoughts that are in
my mind."

Well, Mistress Morgan said nothing that night, but she wept a little
and sighed oft. But the next day she said "Go, husband, and God go
with thee!"

So the _Golden Boar_ went westward ho! again, and Dan Pengelly and all
her old company that were above ground went in her. And Captain Jacob
Whiddon went too, in a second ship called the _Elizabeth_. There was
no wild-goose chase this time after golden cities that could not be
found. But the Englishmen harried the Spanish settlements along t