sion here will be concluded. We then return to
our beloved Greece," replied the merchant.

"What! and run the risk of being chased by the _Sea Hawk_, and of
falling into the hands of that rogue, Zappa!" exclaimed the stranger.
"However, as, by the law of chances, you could scarcely encounter him
twice, I should much like to accompany you, for I should then consider
myself safe from him. By what vessel do you go?"

"A Venetian merchant schooner, the _Floriana_. She sails hence in four
days; and, as she has a rich cargo, she is well-armed and has plenty of
men--so we need not fear Zappa or any other pirate."

"Just as I should wish. I will look out for her, depend on it,"
exclaimed the stranger, quickly. "But I must, for the present, wish you
farewell, gentlemen. I have an appointment, and I have already
overstayed my time."

Saying this, the stranger bowed to his new acquaintance; and throwing
down his reckoning with a haughty air, quitted the coffee-house.

"He seems an honestly fair spoken gentleman," said one of the young
Greeks to his father. "He will be a great addition to our society on
board."

"I am not quite so certain of that," replied the more sagacious
merchant. "Fair spoken he is without doubt; but for honesty, why you
know the safe rule is to look upon all men as knaves till you find them
otherwise. Therefore, my sons, never consider a stranger honest, or you
may discover, when too late, that he is a rogue. Now, though it is
doubtless fancy, I cannot help thinking that our friend there bears a
very striking resemblance to the pirate Zappa."

CHAPTER FOUR.

There is an old saying, that, "Give a dog a bad name, it is sure to
stick by him." On this account I suppose it is that Jews are always
considered rogues. I am very far from saying that they really are so
invariably, or even generally. On the contrary, I believe that there
are a great number of very honest, generous, kind-hearted, hard-working
people among them in all countries where they enjoy the privileges of
free men.

That, in those times and countries where they have been treated as worse
than slaves, despised, insulted, and robbed on every occasion, they
should have become, what they are often described as being, is not only
not surprising, but is according to the laws which govern mankind.
Tyranny and wrong, invariably make the people, who submit to them, grow
mean, treacherous, and false. Cut off from all honourable p