went raving mad, being
out of our minds for weeks. Magellan and the others recovered out
there, but I was invalided home and sent to Haslar Hospital--being
ultimately allowed to leave the service on a pension before I had quite
finished my time, all through that exposure I had had when swimming
ashore in the Mozambique Channel and journeying through the bush
afterwards. I have quite recovered since, however, and am now as hale
and hearty a man, thank God, as ever I was in all my life."

"I'm glad to hear that," said I cordially.

"Aye, I am," he repeated, as if to impress that point carefully on my
mind; and then, seeing me looking at my watch, he asked me what the hour
was.

"Just eleven o'clock," I answered.

"Lord bless us!" he exclaimed, "I'd no idea what time it was. Why
didn't you stop me? I must be off home or my wife will be thinking I'm
lost. Good-night, sir. Hope I haven't wearied you with my yarn?"

"Oh no," I said, "I have not found it a bit too long. Good-night." And
so ends Ben Campion's story of "The Lost Pinnace."

THE END.

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