,
the port on its eastern side. Thence proceeding by the mail steamer,
they safely reached Southampton, where Julia and Lucy were waiting to
receive them.

The important affairs which had brought them home took some time to
settle, and, Colonel Giffard soon afterwards dying, Jack found himself
in possession of a comfortable income, which few people were better able
to enjoy. He frequently heard from Tom, who liked his new commander,
and gave an amusing account of the subsequent adventures he met with in
the Pacific. That young gentleman never alluded to the fair Feodorowna,
and in a letter Jack received from Higson, he learned that she had
married, not long after her sister, a Russian gentleman of good fortune;
though she never failed to inquire after her youthful admirer, hoping
that in ten years or so he would find an English wife to suit him.

Dick Needham got charge of a ship in ordinary, and nothing gave him so
much delight as to receive a visit from his old shipmates, who never
failed to go and see him when they went to Portsmouth.

Ben Snatchblock remained in charge of the _Stella_, and every summer
when Murray was at home she was to be seen trim and taut at her old
moorings off Bercaldine. The three commanders paid their wives the
compliment not to apply in a hurry for employment, though they all at
different times had commands offered them, which, however unwilling they
were to leave home, they felt it their duty to accept. They were in due
time posted, and all three are now admirals.

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