sickness. Jack's sudden appearance wrought an instantaneous cure.

"Ah!" said he, grasping his master's hand and wringing it warmly; "it's
a blessed sight for sore eyes! Sure I've bin all but dead, sur, since
ye wint away."

"You've not been ill, have you?" said Jack, looking somewhat earnestly
in the man's face.

"Ill? No, not i' the body, if that's what ye mane, but I've been awful
bad i' the mind. It's the intellect as kills men more nor the body.
The sowl is what does it all." (Here Teddy passed his hand across his
forehead and looked haggard.) "Ah! Mr Robinson, it's myself as'll
niver do to live alone. I do belave that all the ghosts as iver lived
have come and took up there abode in this kitchen."

"Nonsense!" said Jack, sitting down on a stool beside the fire and
filling his pipe; "you're too superstitious."

"Supperstitious, is it?" exclaimed the man, with a look of intense
gravity. "Faix, if ye seed them ye'd change yer tune. It's the noses
of 'em as is wust. Of all the noses for length and redness and for
blowin' like trumpets I ever did see--well, well, it's no use
conjicturin', but I do wonder sometimes what guv the ghosts sitch
noses."

"I suppose they _knows_ that best themselves," observed Jack.

"P'r'aps they does," replied Teddy with a meditative gaze at the fire.

"But I rather suspect," continued Jack, "that as your own nose is
somewhat long and red, and as you've got a habit of squinting, not to
mention snoring, Teddy, we may be justified in accounting for the--"

"Ah! it's no use jokin'," interrupted O'Donel; "ye'll niver joke me out
o' my belaif in ghosts. It's no longer agone than last night, after
tay, I laid me down on the floor beside the fire in sitch a state o'
moloncholly weakness, that I really tried to die. It's true for ye; and
I belave I'd have done it, too, av I hadn't wint off to slape by
mistake, an' whin I awoke, I was so cowld and hungry that I thought I'd
pusspone dyin' till after supper. I got better after supper, but, och!
it's a hard thing to live all be yer lone like this."

"Have no Indians been here since I left?"

"Not wan, sur."

"Well, Teddy, I will keep you company now. We shall be alone here
together for a few weeks, as I mean to leave all our lads at the
fishery. Meanwhile, bestir yourself and let me have supper."

During the next few weeks Jack Robinson was very busy. Being an
extremely active man, he soon did every conceivable thing th