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 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 RED CROSS; 
 
 OR, 
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND 
 AND WALES. 
 
 A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. 
 
 BY 
 
 OLIVER OPTIC. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 LEE AND SHEPARD. 
 1869.
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by 
 
 WILLIAM T. ADAMS, 
 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts 
 
 ELECTROTYPE!) AT IH 
 
 Boston Stereotype Foundry, 
 Ho. 19 Spring Lane.
 
 To MY YOUNG FRIEND 
 
 WILLIAM INGALLS MONROE, 
 
 This Volu/ne 
 
 is 
 AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD. 
 
 BY OLIVER OPTIC. 
 
 A Library of Travel- and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First 
 and Second Series ; six volumes in each Series. i6mo. 
 Illustrated. 
 
 First Series. 
 I. OUTWARD BOUND; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. 
 
 II. SHAMROCK AND THIS TLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA . 
 
 IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. 
 
 III. RED CROSS ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND 
 
 WALES. 
 
 IV. DIKES AND DITCHES; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN 
 
 HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. 
 V. PALACE AND COTTAGE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA 
 
 IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. 
 
 VI. DOWN THE RHINE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN 
 GERMANY. 
 
 Second Series. 
 
 I. UP THE BALTIC; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN DENMARK 
 
 AND SWEDEN. 
 
 II. NORTHERN LANDS; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN 
 PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA. 
 
 III. VINE AND OLIVE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN 
 
 AND PORTUGAL. 
 
 IV. SUNNY SHORES; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ITALY 
 
 AND AUSTRIA. 
 
 V. CROSS AND CRESCENT; OR, YOUNG AMERICA 
 
 IN GREECE AND TURKEY. 
 
 VI. ISLES OF THE SEA ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA HOME 
 WARD BOUND.
 
 PREFACE 
 
 RED CROSS, the third of the " YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD" 
 series, contains the history of the Academy Ship and her 
 consort, while in the waters of England and Wales. The 
 students visit London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, 
 Bristol, Holyhead, Whitehaven, Milford Haven, Cardiff, 
 Cowes, Hull, York, " Snowdonia," the Lake District, and 
 other localities of interest. The descriptive portions of the 
 work are derived from personal observation, and from the 
 most reliable sources of information. England, so far as a 
 knowledge of the country can be obtained from the printed 
 page, is so familiar to the American juvenile reader, that 
 minute descriptions have been avoided, because the whole 
 volume would not afford space enough for the traveller to 
 do justice even to his own ideas and impressions. 
 
 Though the boys and girls of our country are supposed to 
 be familiar with the geography and history of Great Britain, 
 these topics are very briefly touched upon, rather to refresh 
 the memory than with the expectation of instructing the 
 reader ; and they occupy less space in this than in the pre 
 ceding volume of the series. 
 
 If the book had been called "The Young Commander, or 
 The Cruise of ' A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew,' the offi- 
 i* (5)
 
 6 PREFACE. 
 
 cers, boys, and the .seamen too," perhaps it would have 
 conveyed a better idea of the volume. The story of Paul 
 Kendall, in command of the Josephine, of his trials and 
 troubles as captain, and his experience with rebellious sea 
 men, is related, yet the events which occurred on board of 
 the Young America are not neglected. Though several evil 
 doers appear in the narrative, the author is confident that 
 their experience will prove far less attractive to the youthful 
 reader than that of the honest, upright, and truthful students, 
 even when they are reviled and laughed at by " our fellows." 
 While the author trusts that the story contained in RED 
 CROSS will be received with the same favor as former books, 
 which he has so often gratefully acknowledged, he is not 
 without the hope that the young reader will be improved in 
 mind and heart by its perusal. 
 
 HARRISON SQUARE, MASS. 
 November 29, 1867.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER PAOB 
 
 I. ON BOARD THE JOSEPHINE. . . . .n 
 
 II. McLEISH IN THE BRIG 2J 
 
 III. THE ANCHOR WATCH * 43 
 
 IV. "ALL. HANDS, ATTEND LECTURE, AHOY!" . 59 
 V. A GLANCE AT LIVERPOOL 76 
 
 VI. BLUE LIGHTS ON THE MERSEY. ... 93 
 
 VII. OFF THE CALF OF MAN. , 108 
 
 
 VIII. CAPTAIN KENDALL'S GUESTS. .... 124 
 
 IX. GRACE ARBUCKLE 140 
 
 X. THE EXCURSION TO CHESTER 156 
 
 XI. THE NEW HAND .173 
 
 XII. THE CONSPIRATORS IN THE BRIG. . . 189 
 
 XIII. CAPTAIN KENDALL'S STATE-ROOM. . . . 206 
 
 XIV. THE KNIGHTS OF THE RED CROSS. . . . 225 
 XV. A TRAMP THOUGH SNOWDONIA. . . . 243 
 
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 S CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER PAOB 
 
 XVI. THE BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. . . . 259 
 
 XVII. BRISTOL TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. . . . 275 
 
 XVIII. AROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT 292 
 
 XIX. UP THE THAMES 308 
 
 XX. LONDON. FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. . . 324
 
 RED CROSS
 
 RED CROSS; 
 
 OR, 
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND 
 AND WALES. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ON BOARD THE JOSEPHINE. 
 
 ALL the crew of the Josephine, on deck, ahoy ! " 
 shouted the boatswain of the Young America, 
 on the first day of July, which was the beginning of a 
 new term, while the Academy Ship lay in the Mersey, 
 off Liverpool. 
 
 " The officers of the Josephine will prepare to go 
 on board their ship," added Flag-officer Gordon. 
 
 The officers and crew of the consort brought up 
 their private property, and stood on deck in readiness 
 to take possession of their new floating home. They 
 were in a state of high excitement, for the novelty of 
 a new vessel filled their minds with brilliant expec 
 tations. They hardly thought now of the unvisited 
 shores on both sides of the broad river, so overpower 
 ing was the interest created by their appointment to 
 the trim little craft which rested like a swan on the 
 waves, a short distance from the ship.
 
 12 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 It was three months since the Young America had 
 sailed from Brockway, and the students had, in a very 
 hasty manner, "done" Ireland and Scotland. They 
 had seen a great deal, and doubtless learned some 
 thing of foreign sights and sounds. In a company 
 of eighty-eight students, varying in age from fourteen 
 to eighteen, there was an abundance of life and spirit, 
 which, with the diversity of taste, temperament, and 
 character among them, had laid the foundation for a 
 variety of incident and adventure. Besides the mi 
 nor events of interest which occurred every day, three 
 of the students had run away from the ship ; and this 
 was thus far the most important item in tRe history of 
 the cruise. But the deserters had returned, one of 
 them voluntarily, and the other two by the persuasive 
 efforts of a couple of detectives. At the commence 
 ment of the term, these latter, Wilton and Monroe, 
 were confined in the brig, obdurate and unrepentant, 
 while Pelham, whose pride, rather than his con 
 science, had prompted him to purge himself of the 
 disgrace of being a runaway, had been pardoned in 
 consideration of his noble conduct in saving the life 
 of a child, and by extra effort had won the position 
 of second master of the ship's consort. If he had not 
 absented himself from his duties, he would probably 
 have been a first or a second lieutenant of one of the 
 vessels. He could be hardly said to have reformed, 
 since it. was disgrace, rather than error, that troubled 
 him. But he meant to do well, and with a higher 
 principle he would have been sure of success. He 
 was a type of many a man in the community, who is 
 kept in the path of rectitude because it is respectable,
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 13 
 
 and because crime is disreputable, rather than a sin 
 against God and man. 
 
 The ship's company were all sons of wealthy men, 
 or of those who had the means to pay for the expen 
 sive course of tuition in the ship. Many of them were 
 wild boys, brought up in ease and luxury, and unac 
 customed to wholesome restraint before they joined 
 the academy. But the discipline of the ship was 
 strict, and it was surprising that there had been so 
 little open mutiny and insubordination, though there 
 were always many daring spirits ready to break 
 through the routine of the ship, and engage in any 
 wild adventure which the moment suggested. Mr. 
 Lowington, the principal, had been careful to find 
 sufficient scope, in a proper way, for the carrying off 
 of their surplus enthusiasm. Reefing topsails in a 
 gale of wind was a good outlet for the daring spirit. 
 As the ship went from port to port, and new scenes 
 were visited, the variety presented to the students had 
 a tendency to repress mischievous inclinations, and 
 render them contented with their lot, submissive to 
 the regulations, and willing to perform the mental 
 and physical labor assigned to them. 
 
 There were some exceptions to the general rule ; 
 some who were too utterly restless to be satisfied with 
 anything ; some who were continually plotting mis 
 chief, and watching for a chance to overstep the line of 
 duty ; some who could not be contented unless they 
 were doing wrong. The ship had its communities of 
 good and of bad boys ; as well as the larger mass who 
 were doubtful and indifferent, and could be led either 
 way, as circumstances influenced them. The mutiny 
 
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 14 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 which had been projected on the voyage across the 
 Atlantic would doubtless have numbered a majority 
 in its ranks if the -leaders had been skilful, and the 
 affair better managed. The runaways, if they had 
 dared to invite others to join them, could probably 
 have taken half the crew with them, had the circum 
 stances been favorable. Yet there were many young 
 men of high principle and noble lives among them 
 more perhaps than could have been expected in a 
 company of boys gathered as the students of the 
 Young America had been. 
 
 While the ship was in the Clyde, Mr. Lowington 
 had received as a pupil, at the urgent solicitation of 
 his father, a Scotch boy, who had been several times 
 expelled from school for misconduct. Arthur McLeish 
 was a " hard boy " in the strongest sense of the term. 
 He had been disciplined for insubordination and diso 
 bedience, and had spent a long time in the brig, from 
 which he had been released on his promise to do his 
 duty faithfully. But the evil spirit had not been driven 
 out of him, and there was a mountain of trouble be 
 fore him for the officers and himself. 
 
 The press of applications for admission to the Acad 
 emy Ship before her departure for the United States 
 had induced Mr. Lowington to procure another vessel ; 
 and the Josephine had been built to his order. She 
 had just arrived at Liverpool, and the new students 
 were expected in the next steamer. The vessel, on 
 board the ship, was oftener called the " consort " than 
 by any other name. She was to accommodate nine 
 officers and twenty-four seamen at present, though 
 she had berths for a crew of thirty-six, besides two
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 15 
 
 instructors, a boatswain, carpenter, cook, and three 
 stewards. The officers had been appointed by the 
 merit roll, and one seaman in every three, as the 
 names came on the list, was detailed for service in 
 the Josephine. The crew were taken in this manner 
 because there was a general desire among the students 
 to be attached to the consort, and the principal, in 
 this matter as in all others, was strictly impartial. 
 The crew were not selected ; they went by lot, as 
 their names appeared on the list, and no one could 
 complain. 
 
 This method sent many notoriously bad boys into 
 the Josephine, including Sanborn, Grossbeck, Tem- 
 pleton, and McLeish, who had particularly distin 
 guished themselves by their misconduct. Mr. Low- 
 ington was strongly tempted to interfere with the lot 
 in the case of the Scotch boy, but as his offence had 
 been against the principal personally, he was too mag 
 nanimous to do so. He was willing to let him take 
 his chance, as the understanding was, that any student 
 who did not behave well might be returned to the 
 ship, and another sent to the consort in his place. 
 Those of " our fellows," as certain evil-disposed boys 
 had chosen to call themselves, who were detailed 
 for duty in the Josephine, were glad to escape from 
 the immediate supervision of the principal ; for the 
 Josephine was to be in actual command of her offi 
 cers, the instructors on board having no authority 
 outside of the academic department. The boatswain 
 and the carpenter were the only adult seamen on 
 board. 
 
 The two instructors who were to sail in the consort
 
 l6 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 were to arrive by steamer in charge of the new schol- 
 ars. They were men of extensive and varied learning. 
 One of them Professor Hamblin was quite cele 
 brated as a scholar, and had spent his life as a pro 
 fessor in a college ; but his health failing him, he had 
 taken this position in order to obtain the benefit of sea 
 air and foreign travel, without sacrificing the income 
 he needed for his family. He was fifty years old, tall, 
 and spare, with a thin face, and a head partially cov 
 ered with reddish-gray hair. He was exceedingly 
 formal and precise in everything he said and did. 
 His associate, Professor Stoute, was short, fat, and 
 forty, noted as a teacher, rather than a great scholar. 
 
 With this statement of the condition of affairs on 
 board the ship, the reader is prepared to follow the 
 students in their progress on ship and shore. 
 
 The officers and crew of the Josephine stood upon 
 the deck of the Young America, waiting for the order 
 to embark in the boats. Shoulder-straps and gold 
 bands had been readjusted, so that all the officers of 
 both vessels now appeared in their appropriate uni 
 forms. Flag-officer Gordon wore six gold bands on 
 his arms, and his shoulder-straps contained three an 
 chors, which was one more than designated the two 
 captains. 
 
 The first and second cutters conveyed the crew, and 
 the captain's gig the officers, with Mr. Lowington and 
 Dr. Winstock. A short pull brought them alongside 
 the Josephine, but only those attached to her were 
 permitted to go on board ; whereat the crews of the 
 gig and cutters grumbled like old sailors, for they 
 were curious to see the new vessel.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. lj 
 
 " The officers and crew of the Josephine are not 
 ready to receive company yet," Mr. Lowington re 
 plied to the requests for permission to go on board. 
 " When they have put their ship in order, you shall 
 have an opportunity to visit her." 
 
 "Isn't she a beauty?" exclaimed Captain Paul 
 Kendall, as he stepped upon the deck of his crafU 
 
 "Magnificent!" replied George Terrill, his first 
 lieutenant. " She is as nice as a new pin ! " 
 
 " I feel just as though I should go up," said Paul, 
 turning to his friend the doctor, and speaking ia a 
 confidential tone. 
 
 kk Don't do it, captain," laughed Dr. Winstock. 
 " Remember that you are the captain of the ship, 
 and you don't go aloft." 
 
 " I shall not see much of you now, doctor." 
 
 " Not so much as before ; but I am surgeon-general 
 of the fleet, and it will be my duty to look after the san 
 itary condition of both vessels. I shall visit you often." 
 
 " I hope you will," replied Paul, as he glanced over 
 the deck of the Josephine. 
 
 The plan of her construction was similar to that of 
 the Young America, except that she had a camboose 
 abaft the foremast, containing the cook's galley. The 
 bulwarks were not more than three feet high, and the 
 students could see over them, which was not the case 
 in the ship. Except the skylights, the camboose, and 
 the companion-ways, there was nothing to obstruct 
 the deck. There were four sets of quarter davits at 
 which hung two six-oar and two four-oar life-boats. 
 Like the ship, her spars were light and adapted to 
 the use for which she was intended.
 
 l8 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Mr. Lowington sent the cutters to convey Captain 
 Bean and the sailors who had come over in the Jose 
 phine to the shore. The boatswain and carpenter, 
 cook and stewards, remained, and no one was now 
 on board except the principal and the doctor, that 
 was not attached to the consort. 
 
 " Now, young gentlemen, I will show you the ves 
 sel, and assign your berths," said Mr. Lowington to 
 the officers. " The crew will remain on deck. Boat 
 swain, close the fore hatch." 
 
 The principal descended the companion-way to the 
 cabin of the schooner. The first apartment reached 
 was large and richly furnished. There were no state 
 rooms on the sides, as in the Young America, and the 
 berths were draped in front with heavy hangings or 
 curtains. By this arrangement the space was econo 
 mized, so as to afford a much larger cabin, though 
 its occupants could not enjoy the luxury of private 
 rooms. This cabin contained twelve berths, eight of 
 which Mr. Lowington proceeded to assign to the lieu 
 tenants and masters, leaving four unoccupied. 
 
 " This is the captain's state-room," said the princi 
 pal, opening a door in the forward part of the cabin, 
 on the starboard side. 
 
 Paul entered this room, which contained but one 
 berth, and all the appliances for utility and comfort 
 found in the corresponding apartment in the ship. 
 On the port side there was a similar room with two 
 berths for the professors. Between them was a pas 
 sage-way leading to the steerage, and two pantries, 
 one for the cabin and the other for the steerage. In 
 the Josephine officers and professors were to mess
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 19 
 
 together. Passing into the steerage, they found an 
 apartment similar to the main cabin. It was seven 
 feet high, with three tiers of berths on each side, 
 thirty-six in all. It was in about the same style as 
 the steeiage of the ship. 
 
 Forward of this was the forecastle, divided fore and 
 aft into two rooms, one for the boatswain, carpenter, 
 and head steward, the other for the cook and under 
 stewards. Below the berth-deck was the hold, about 
 five feet deep, which contained the water-tanks, store 
 rooms, and cable tiers. 
 
 After the principal had shown the officers through 
 the vessel, he conducted them back to the cabin. 
 
 " Captain Kendall," said he, " I shall now take my 
 leave of you. The Josephine is in your charge, and 
 from what I know of you, I am confident you will 
 discharge your difficult duty acceptably to me and 
 creditably to yourself." 
 
 " But, Mr. Lowington, you have given me no or 
 ders," replied Paul. 
 
 " Put your ship in order, give your officers and 
 crew their stations, and make such regulations as you 
 think proper. You and your officers will go on deck 
 with me, and after I have spoken a word to your 
 crew, I will leave you." 
 
 Captain Kendall was rather surprised to find him 
 self so much his own master; but he followed the 
 principal on deck. A quarter-master was ordered to 
 run the ensign up to the peak, and the ship was de 
 clared to be in commission. Mr. Lowington spoke to 
 the crew, putting them on their good behavior, and 
 urging them to be prompt, obedient, and studious.
 
 2O RED CROSS, OR 
 
 I 
 
 He and Dr. Winstock then went over the side into 
 their boats, and returned to the ship. 
 
 Paul looked at his officers who stood around him 
 on the quarter-deck, and more than ever before in his 
 llife he realized what it was to have a heavy respon 
 sibility resting upon him. He had expected the assist 
 ance of the principal and Mr. Fluxion both of them 
 familiar with all the details of the naval service in 
 establishing the discipline of the ship, in making out 
 the station bills, and in arranging the watches and 
 quarter watches. No such help was to be given ; and 
 as the young commander glanced at his crew, \S'ho 
 were impatiently waiting for orders, he saw among 
 them some of the most turbulent spirits of the ship, 
 some whom he recognized as " our fellows," and 
 especially he noticed the villanous face of Arthur 
 McLeish. 
 
 Captain Kendall was equal to the position in which 
 he found himself placed. If he had not been, he 
 would not have been there. It was not possible for 
 any young man in the institution to reach a high posi 
 tion without being a good seaman as well as a good 
 scholar. More than this, he would not have been left 
 alone to organize his crew, if he had not been deemed 
 entirely competent by the principal. 
 
 " We have work to do," said he with energy, after he 
 had glanced about him for a moment. " Mr. Terrill." 
 
 The first lieutenant stepped forward and touched 
 his cap. 
 
 " You will pipe the crew below, and have them 
 draw lots for berths. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Pelham 
 will assist you," added the captain, as he walked aft.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 21 
 
 In the matter of orders, he was disposed to do as 
 he would be done by ; for nothing is more annoying 
 to a sensible inferior, fit for his position, than to be 
 told how to do a thing, or to have his superior stand 
 suspiciously near to observe its execution. Paul 
 felt that he must have confidence in his officers in 
 order to keep them worthy of confidence. He de 
 scended the companion-way, and took a further sur 
 vey of the cabin. He might have been excused if he 
 had been a little airy, for his position was vastly more 
 responsible than that of the captain of the Young 
 America, though he commanded a smaller force. 
 
 While he was in the cabin Pelham came down to 
 prepare the papers for the lot. Presently the pipe of 
 the boatswain was heard on deck, which assured Paul 
 that Terrill was executing his order. He determined 
 to keep out of the way till the crew had been berthed, 
 and he went into his cabin, closing the door behind 
 him. He was amazed and bewildered by his grand 
 position. A boy of sixteen in command of a topsail 
 schooner of one hundred and sixty tons, with thirty- 
 three officers and seamen under him, to say nothing of 
 half a dozen men ! The two anchors on his shoulder- 
 straps had a real meaning in his case. 
 
 But in spite of the glory of his rank and the great 
 ness of his power, there was much in the circum- 
 staaces that surrounded him to make him tremble. 
 What if that brutal and turbulent McLeish should 
 take it into his head to be obstinate and disobedient! 
 Paul hoped he would not do anything of the kind ; 
 but if he did, he was determined to maintain the dis 
 cipline of the ship. What if a dozen or more of the
 
 22 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 uneasy fellows in his crew should combine to resist 
 their officers ! While the young captain dreaded 
 such an event, he was prepared to do what he fully 
 believed to be his duty. He had enough to think of, 
 and needed all the strength of character he possessed 
 to sustain him in his difficult task. 
 
 When the boatswain piped the crew below, they 
 found the third lieutenant stationed at the hatch to see 
 that they went down in order ; but the students were 
 too much interested in the vessel to think of mischief 
 thus early in their experience on board. They went 
 below quietly, and Terrill stated the business of the 
 hour, and explained how it was to be done. 
 
 " Mr. Terrill," said McLeish, touching his cap as 
 he stepped up to the first lieutenant, " Rossfeldt is a 
 particular friend of mine, and I would like a berth 
 next to him, if you please." 
 
 Certainly the Scotch lad's manners had been mar 
 vellously improved since he came on board, for he 
 spoke politely and observed all the required forms. 
 
 " It is the captain's order that the crew be berthed 
 by lot, and of course no exceptions can be made," re 
 plied Terrill, mildly. " You will all draw a number, 
 and you will all choose your berths in the order of 
 the numbers drawn." 
 
 McLeish scowled a little, but he made no reply. 
 Pelham presently appeared with the numbers on slips 
 of paper. The first lieutenant observed some whis 
 pering among the crew, and he knew that it was 
 " second nature " with some of them to endeavor to 
 defeat the impartiality of the lot. 
 
 "Mr. Pelham, you will be seated at one of the
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 23 
 
 mess-tables, if you please, and the crew will pass in 
 single file before you," said Terrill. 
 
 Pelham seated himself as directed, and Wheeler, 
 the boatswain, was the first one to draw a number. 
 
 " Mr. Robinson, will you take a seat opposite Mr. 
 Pelham, and write the name of each one on the paper 
 he draws?" added Terrill. 
 
 " Confound him ! " exclaimed McLeish, in a whis 
 per ; for he had already agreed with half a dozen of 
 "our fellows" to exchange numbers with them, if his 
 own did not come next to Rossfeldt's. 
 
 The third lieutenant wrote Wheeler's name against 
 the number he had drawn, which rendered it impos 
 sible for the students to exchange the slips they drew, 
 and certain little schemes were thus defeated. When 
 each student had drawn a slip, No. i was called to 
 the table, and when he had selected his berth, his 
 name was entered on the ship's book, and the num 
 ber of his berth was also his ship's number. Rossfeldt 
 and McLeish were separated, in spite of their united 
 e'ffbrts to get together. 
 
 " I'm no satisfied with this lot," said McLeish to the 
 first lieutenant, when the berths were all assigned. 
 
 " It can't be helped if you are not," replied Ter 
 rill. 
 
 " What's the hairm of my being next to Rossfeldt? " 
 demanded the new scholar. 
 
 "No harm that I am aware of; but you didn't hap 
 pen to draw a berth next to him," answered the first 
 lieutenant, moving towards the cabin. 
 
 " I'll no stand it ! " 
 
 " Shut up ! " interposed Rossfeldt, in a whisper.
 
 24 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I'll not shut up. I'm not to be put down by these 
 bits of nobs," said McLeish, angrily. 
 
 " You have said enough, and I shall report you to 
 the captain," added Terrill. 
 
 " Will you, indeed? will you? " continued the rep 
 robate, placing himself between Ten-ill and the pas 
 sage-way which led to the cabin. " I'll show you 
 what a MacGregor is made of, and ye'll find ye 
 canna insult him." 
 
 McLeish doubled up his fists, and it was evident that 
 he intended to " pitch into " the first lieutenant. Ter 
 rill, though sixteen years of age, was quite slender in 
 his frame ; but his eye flashed when he saw the rebel 
 in the attitude of defiance before him. The rest of 
 the crew, even those who were the most inclined to 
 turbulence, utterly disapproved of the stupid demon 
 stration of McLeish, and, to avoid any suspicion of 
 supporting him, remained near the berths they had 
 just selected. Robinson and. Pelham kept close to 
 the first lieutenant, ready to assist him, physically or 
 morally, as the occasion might require. 
 
 " Get out of my way ! " said Terrill, sharply. 
 
 " I'll no get out of your way." 
 
 Quicker than a flash, Terrill sprang upon him, 
 without any preliminary demonstration, and gave him 
 a blow in the face which felled him to the deck, where 
 he struck with a hard crack on the back of the head. 
 McLeish, boiling over with passion, regained his feet, 
 and rushed upon the first lieutenant with a fury which 
 threatened to annihilate him. But Terrill was cool, 
 and though he was hit two or thi'ee times, he suc 
 ceeded in planting another heavy blow on the mouth
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 25 
 
 of the rebel, which knocked in one of his front teeth, 
 and threw him back against the bulkhead. The lieu 
 tenant sprang upon him, and, grasping him by the 
 throat, bore him down, and put his knee upon his 
 breast, so that he could not move. 
 
 " Come over here and halp me, ye cowards ! " 
 shouted the prostrate rebel, struggling to free himself 
 from the grasp of his conqueror. 
 
 As this affray occurred near the captain's state 
 room, his vision of glory was disturbed by the noise 
 of the scuffle, and he hastened to the steerage to learn 
 the cause of the disturbance. He found McLeish 
 lying on the deck, held down by Terrill ; and it was 
 evident that the authority of the ship had been fully 
 vindicated by her executive officer. Terrill choked 
 the rebel till his breath came hard, and then he begged 
 to be " let up." He was permitted to rise. 
 
 " If you speak another impudent word, I'll knock 
 you down again," said Terrill, panting with the vio 
 lence of his exertion. 
 
 McLeish, wiping the blood from his mouth, sneaked 
 off to his berth. 
 
 " This way, McLeish," said the captain. " You 
 have made a bad beginning, and your stay on board 
 of the Josephine will be short," he added, as the rebel 
 approached him. 
 
 " He didn't fight fair," replied McLeish, who seemed 
 to be more astonished at his o\vn defeat than at any 
 thing else, and claimed " a foul," as bullies usually do 
 when overcome. 
 
 " Fight fair ! " exclaimed Paul, in disgust. " You 
 will hold yourself in readiness to return to the ship. 
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 26 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Mr. Terrill, was any other seaman concerned in this 
 demonstration ? " 
 
 "No other took any part in it," replied the fine 
 lieutenant. "McLeish was dissatisfied with his berth, 
 and when I declined to change his place, he got mad, 
 and when I threatened to report him to you, would 
 not let me pass into the cabin. I knocked him down 
 then." 
 
 " You did quite right," added the captain, decidedly, 
 as he walked into the cabin, followed by the officers.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 MCLEISH> IN THE BRIG. 
 
 THE officers of the Josephine were not a little 
 annoyed by the event which had occurred in the 
 steerage. They looked grave and thoughtful, fearing, 
 perhaps, that this case of sharp discipline would pro 
 duce an unfavorable impression upon the mind of the 
 principal, and abridge the experiment of self-govern 
 ment which was in process of trial on board the 
 schooner. Though a consultation had not been for 
 mally called for, all seemed to feel the need of com 
 paring views and opinions. 
 
 The captain seated himself at the table, and the 
 others followed his example. They all looked very 
 sober, and even troubled. All but two of them had 
 been cabin officers in the Young America, and nine 
 better fellows could not have been selected from the 
 students. The officers were as follows : 
 
 PAUL KENDALL, Captain, 
 
 George W. Terrill, First Lieutenant. 
 
 Henry Martyn, Second " 
 
 Mark Robinson, Third " 
 
 John Humphreys, Fourth "
 
 28 RED. CROSS, OR 
 
 Andrew Groom, First Master. 
 
 Augustus Pelham, Second " % 
 
 Amos Ritchie, Third " 
 
 Reuben Lockwood, Fourth w 
 
 " This is a bad beginning for all of us," said Cap 
 tain Kendall. 
 
 " I think it is a good beginning," added Robinson. 
 
 " So do I," responded Pelham ; " nothing could be 
 better." 
 
 " I am sorry this trouble happened so soon," con 
 tinued the captain. " I don't think Mr. Lowington will 
 wish to have such an event occur very often." 
 
 " I couldn't help it, Captain Kendall," interposed 
 Terrill. " I was obliged to do something, or let the 
 fellow ride over me." 
 
 "You did perfectly right, Mr. Terrill. I entirely 
 approve of your conduct, and am very much obliged 
 to you for the firmness and decision with which you 
 maintained your authority and the discipline of the 
 ship. I should have don.e just what you did, if I had 
 been in your place," added Paul, heartily. 
 
 " Nothing could be better than Mr. Ten-ill's beha 
 vior," said the third lieutenant. " He was master of 
 the situation in the beginning, and held his ground to 
 the last. I stood ready to help him, but he did not 
 need any help." 
 
 " So did I," added Pelham. " I wanted to get my 
 hand on the rascal, but the first lieutenant gave us no 
 chance to do anything." 
 
 " It is better as it is," continued the captain. " Mr. 
 Terrill has proved that he is not a child, and even Me-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 29 
 
 LeJsh will understand what he is made of. This is a 
 very disagreeable affair, but it could not have been 
 avoided. I do not like to call on Mr. Lowington so 
 soon for assistance, but I suppose we must report 
 McLeish's conduct to him." 
 
 " Not on my account," interposed the first lieutenant. 
 " If he don't obey orders, I shall make him do so. I 
 feel abundantly able to take care of him, so far as I 
 am concerned." 
 
 Paul smiled as he glanced at the slender form and 
 rather pale face of the first lieutenant. 
 
 " Have we a brig on board?" he asked. 
 
 "We have," replied Martyn, the second lieutenant: 
 " there is a three-cornered room next to the forecastle, 
 opposite the steerage closet." 
 
 " It will not do to let McLeish run at large after his 
 bad conduct. Mr. Terrill, you will commit him to the 
 brig, and we will settle the question of reporting him 
 at another time. You may call Mr. Cleats, the boat 
 swain, to assist you, if you choose. 
 
 " I do not need his help," replied Terrill. " If Mr. 
 Pelham will go with me, it will be sufficient." 
 
 " Mr. Pelham will go with you," said the captain. 
 
 Terrill, as resolute as though his nerves had been 
 made of iron, went into the steerage, attended by Pel- 
 ham. The crew appeared to be busy in arranging 
 their lockers and berths, and in exploring their new 
 quarters. The first lieutenant proceeded to the part 
 of the steerage indicated by Martyn as the locality of 
 the " brig." There were two bulkheads between the 
 ' steerage and the forecastle, one extending square across 
 the between-decks of the vessel, and the other at right 
 3*
 
 3O RED CROSS, OR 
 
 angles with the schooner's side, whe*re it rounded in 
 near the bow, thus saving a space of three feet next to 
 the ceiling, which was not needed in the forecastle. 
 The brig was simply u closet, with a door made of 
 hard wood slats. 
 
 The first lieutenant took the key from the door, and 
 assured himself that the place was in condition for the 
 reception of the prisoner. It contained a stool, and 
 there was space enough for a mattress on the deck 
 within it. 
 
 " McLeish," called he, in decided tones. 
 " Here, sir," replied the rebel, who had cooled off 
 since the affray, as he walked towards the first lieu 
 tenant." 
 
 " By the order of the captain, you will be committed 
 to the brig." 
 
 "In there is it?" asked McLeish, glancing into 
 the brig. 
 
 " In there. Will you go in, or shall I put you in?" 
 demanded the first lieutenant. 
 
 " It seems to me you have all come off here to this 
 vessel for the purpose of insulting me," growled he. 
 
 " No words ! Will you go in, or shall we put 
 you in ? " 
 
 McLeish was deliberating whether to obey or re 
 sist. He had derived no comfort from his shipmates 
 in the steerage, after the officers went into the cabin. 
 They had simply told him he was a fool to make a 
 row with the officers for nothing; and some of them, 
 seeing how easily he had been whipped by the first 
 lieutenant, were disposed to pound him on their own 
 hook for his folly, and for compromising them by his 
 misconduct.
 
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 u If you want any help, Mr. Terrill, we are all 
 ready to obey orders," said one of the crew, " for we 
 don't approve of his conduct." 
 
 " I do not need any help," replied Terrill. 
 
 " You are hard on me, lieutenant," added McLeish, 
 fretfully, as he stepped forward towards the door of 
 his prison. 
 
 Instead of going in, as his movement indicated, he 
 suddenly sprang upon the first lieutenant, intending to 
 take him by surprise, and have his revenge ; but Pel- 
 ham seized him by the collar, and crowded him into 
 the brig. The door was closed upon him, and locked. 
 The rebel was safe now, and the officers returned to 
 the cabin. Terrill reported to the captain the execu 
 tion of his order. 
 
 " I think we had better get rid of that fellow as 
 soon as possible," said Groom, the first master. 
 
 " We have him in the right place now," replied 
 Pelham. 
 
 " Mr. Lowington gave me no orders in regard to 
 reporting such cases to him," added Paul. " I don't 
 like to call in any help in governing the crew, at least 
 before the ship's company are organized." 
 
 " Do you feel obliged to report this case to the prin 
 cipal?" asked Terrill. 
 
 " I shall certainly inform Mr. Lowington what has 
 happened, when I see him ; but I was not ordered to 
 give immediate notice of any trouble on board. I 
 have concluded to say nothing about it at present, and 
 we will proceed to organize. The principal told us, 
 in his speech yesterday, that one of the objects of the 
 Josephine was to afford the students an opportunity
 
 32 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 to cultivate the virtue of self-reliance ; and if a turbu 
 lent seaman is not one of the paths to the attainment 
 of confidence, I don't know what is. He expects the 
 officers to govern the ship, and keep up strict disci 
 pline. We have done so thus far, and we will depend 
 upon ourselves. Mr. Terrill, you will pipe to muster, 
 if you please." 
 
 The first lieutenant went on deck, and presently the 
 pipe of the boatswain was heard. All the officers 
 went on deck, and took their stations. As all the sea 
 men were well known, there was little difficulty in as 
 signing to them their places aloft and on deck. * The 
 Josephine carried only a fore topsail, fore top-gallant 
 sail, and a gaff topsail on the main mast, and only a 
 few top men were needed. The lightest and smartest 
 were stationed aloft, while the heavy, strong fel 
 lows were placed at the halyards, brails, and sheets. 
 The petty officers had all been appointed on board 
 of the ship, according to the merit roll. Though the 
 schooner was provided with four boats, only two cox 
 swains were selected ; the choice of the other two 
 being left until the vessel was fully manned. 
 
 At twelve o'clock the organization of the ship's 
 company was completed, and all hands piped to din 
 ner. The chief steward was very attentive to the 
 young gentlemen in the cabin, and they enjoyed their 
 first dinner on board ; and, indeed, everything relating 
 to their personal comfort was entirely satisfactory. In 
 the steerage, the crew were not less delighted with their 
 accommodations. 
 
 After dinner the crew were piped on deck again, 
 and drilled' in making and furling sail, and in all the
 
 YOUNP AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALKS. 33 
 
 evolutions of seamanship required in handling the 
 schooner. The boats were lowered, and their crews 
 required to become familiar with them ; but they were 
 all experienced rowers, and needed no special train 
 ing. Before night Captain Kendall was satisfied that 
 his ship's company were in condition to work the ves 
 sel, and nothing would have suited him better than an 
 order to go to sea. A hard day's work had been done, 
 both by the occupants of the cabin and the steerage, 
 and all hands were tired enough to rest after the fa 
 tigue and excitement of the drill. 
 
 The officers spent a pleasant evening in the cabin, 
 talking over the events of the day, discussing the 
 merits of the Josephine, and anticipating the pleasure 
 of sailing her. 
 
 " I think we ought to make a trial trip in her," said 
 Terrill. " We don't know whether we can handle 
 her or not." 
 
 u Probably we shall have a chance to test the Jo 
 sephine's qualities before many days," added the 
 captain. 
 
 " If Mr. Lowington wishes us to have confidence in 
 ourselves, he must send us to sea," laughed Pelham. 
 
 "Do you think we could handle her yet?" asked 
 Groom. 
 
 " Of course we can," replied Terrill. *' Do you 
 suppose Mr. Lowington would have given Captain 
 Kendall the charge of her if he hadn't known he could 
 handle her?" 
 
 " I think we need not discuss that question," said 
 the captain. " I am pretty sure we shall be sent to sea 
 soon."
 
 34 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I hope so," added half a dozen of them. 
 
 " Do you apprehend any more trouble with the 
 crew; Mr. Terrill?" asked Captain Kendall. 
 
 " I do not, as long as that McLeish is in the strait 
 jacket. I don't think he has much influence with the 
 crew ; but we have some of the hardest fellows in the 
 crowd on board, though I believe they are all well dis 
 posed at the present time. We may have some trouble 
 with Rossfeldt, Lynch, Sanborn/Grossbeck, Temple- 
 ton, and such fellows as they are, but it will not be 
 until after the novelty of their situation has worn 
 away." 
 
 " Those you mention are uneasy fellows, always 
 trying to get into a scrape. Mr. Lowington advised 
 me to keep an anchor watch while we are in port. 
 Of course I shall do that ; but I think we will do some 
 thing more. There is nothing like keeping our eyes 
 open. I intend, therefore, to have one officer on duty 
 all night, in addition to the two seamen composing the 
 anchor watch. He must pass through the steerage 
 every half hour during his watch. We shall be pretty- 
 sure, then, that there is no mischief brewing among 
 the crew." 
 
 The arrangements for this watch were made. The 
 officers, except the captain, were to serve in turn, in 
 the order of their rank, for two hours. The first lieu 
 tenant went to the steerage, and detailed the seamen 
 who were to be the anchor watch. At eight o'clock 
 the first watch was set. At ten all was quiet on board, 
 all hands having turned in. Henry Martyn was on 
 deck in charge of the vessel. At five bells everybody 
 below appeared to be asleep, except McLeish, who
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 35 
 
 stood at the grated door of his prison, looking out into 
 the steerage. The watch officer had just been his 
 rounds, and all was still again. He could hear the 
 heavy breathing of some of the sleepers. 
 
 If there was a miserable and unhappy fellow on 
 board, it was McLeish ; not consciously rendered so by 
 his own misconduct, but by the insults heaped upon a 
 MucGregor. He was not yet able to see that he had 
 done wrong, and he was only thirsting for revenge. 
 He had carefully examined every part of the brig in 
 order to find a weak place, if there was any. He had 
 shaken the door, and tried his skill upon the lock with 
 his knife. His prison appeared to be secure in every 
 part, and everything was as hopeless as it could be. 
 The culprit expected to be sent back to the Young 
 America the next day. 
 
 He had exhausted his ingenuity in vain attempts to 
 devise a method of getting out of his dungeon. He 
 could neither break down the door nor pick the lock. 
 He needed assistance from outside, with which he was 
 satisfied that he could make his escape. The bars of 
 the door were wide enough apart to permit him to 
 thrust his arm through, and he had felt of the lock 
 until he had hit upon a plan for opening his dungeon. 
 The door swung out into the steerage, and was secured 
 by a lock, screwed upon one of the slats. He ' had 
 examined the screw heads with his fingers, and at 
 tempted to operate upon them with his knife. In 
 this he failed ; but a friend on the outside could let 
 him out in five minutes. 
 
 In the middle berth, next to his prison, slept Lynch, 
 whom the rebel knew to be one of " our fellows."
 
 36 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Above him was Baxter, one of the chaplain's " lambs," 
 who was innocent enough to be a sound sleeper. 
 
 " Lynch ! " said McLeish, in a whisper. 
 
 The occupant of the middle berth appeared also to 
 be innocent, so far as his slumbers were concerned. 
 
 " I say, Lynch ! " called he again, in a little louder 
 tone ; but it was not loud enough to rouse the heavy 
 sleeper. 
 
 McLeish took from his pocket two or three big 
 English pennies ; and judging from the feeling of 
 them in his pocket, they were heavy enough to crush 
 the unconscious slumberer. Reaching through the 
 bars of the door, he tossed one of the coins into the 
 middle berth. It fell upon the bed-clothes, and did 
 not disturb the tired seaman. He repeated the experi 
 ment ; and this time the penny fell upon Lynch's face. 
 It startled him, and waked him up. Doubtless he 
 thought a rat was a fellow-occupant of the bunk with 
 him, and he raised himself up in his bed, to find the 
 intruder if he could. 
 " Lynch," whispered McLeish. 
 
 "Who's that?" demanded he. 
 
 " Whist ! don't make a noise," added the prisoner. 
 
 " What do you want?" asked Lynch, in a whisper 
 this time. 
 
 " Come to me will you? Don't let any one hear 
 you." 
 
 " What for? " inquired the cautious seaman. 
 
 " I want to see you." 
 
 Lynch carefully slipped out of his berth, and went 
 to the door of the brig. He was hardly in the hu 
 mor for a conspiracy with such a senseless rebel as
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 37 
 
 McLeish. He had acted so stupidly in the morning, 
 that those who did not object to the principle of re 
 bellion and insubordination, condemned his folly in 
 making such a needless row. 
 
 "What do you want of me?" demanded Lynch, 
 rather sourly, when he reached the door. 
 
 " I want to talk with you a bit." 
 
 " I don't care about talking with you to-night. I am 
 sleepy, and I have to go on the anchor watch at eight 
 bells," replied Lynch, with a long gape. 
 
 " Eight bals when is that?" inquired the pris 
 oner. 
 
 "Twelve o'clock." 
 
 " And who goes on with you?" 
 
 " Grossbeck." 
 
 " Excellent ! " exclaimed the rebel. 
 
 " It may be, but I don't see it," growled Lynch. 
 "What do you want of me? I'm not going to stand 
 here all night, and perhaps get into a scrape for you." 
 
 "Just get into- your bed again, if you hear that bal 
 up stairs ; for that's when the officer comes round to 
 see that all is well." 
 
 " I shall not wait for the bell before I turn in, if you 
 don't speak quick." 
 
 " I want to get out," said McLeish. 
 
 " I suppose you do ; you were a fool to get in there, 
 and I, for one, dou't care how long you have to stay 
 there," replied Lynch, in the most forbidding of tones. 
 
 " You are a good fallow, Lynch." 
 
 " I know that, but I'm not going to get into a scrape 
 for a fellow that don't know enough to keep his fin 
 gers out of the fire," added the outsider, in an ener- 
 4
 
 38 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 getic whisper. " You will be sent back to the ship to 
 morrow ; then all your fun will be spoiled, and I shall 
 be glad of it." 
 
 " Don't be hard on me. I was only taking the nobs 
 down a bit." 
 
 " I should think you were ; but you better believe 
 that nob of a first lieutenant took you down a bit. If 
 you want anything of me, speak quick, for I'm going 
 to turn in." 
 
 " I can whip the lieutenant any day in a fair fight." 
 
 " Why didn't you do it, then?" 
 
 " He didn't fight fair." 
 
 " Fight fair ! You are a humbug ! All night to you, 
 till your muscle grows ; " and Lynch moved towards 
 his berth. 
 
 " Whist ! Hold on a minute." 
 
 " I won't hold on any more, unless you tell me what 
 you want." 
 
 u l'll no tall ye what 7 want first; I'll tall you 
 what you want." 
 
 "Well, what do I want?" demanded Lynch, impa 
 tiently. 
 
 " You want to make a sovereign in about five 
 minutes." 
 
 " That's so," answered the outsider, with refreshing 
 promptness. 
 
 The insider could not have mentioned anything 
 which Lynch wanted more than money, especially as 
 the students were expecting a run on shore in a few 
 days. Perhaps there was not a boy on board of either 
 vessel who was more sorely distressed by the want of 
 funds than he. Left to his own inclinations, he was a
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 39 
 
 reckless, resolute fellow, disposed to gamble, to drink 
 ale, and even liquors. No one needed the strict disci 
 pline and wholesome restraint of the ship more than 
 he. If they did not reform, they at least kept him for 
 the time in the path of decency. He wanted money 
 now, and he always wanted it, for money was the key 
 .to the low pleasures he relished. 
 
 " I knew you wanted money," added McLeish. 
 
 " Have you any? " 
 
 " Sartainly I have planty of it. But you'll no 
 betray me." 
 
 " Of course I won't ; I wouldn't blow on the mean 
 est fellow on board. How much have you ? " 
 
 " Never you mind how much I have. I haird the 
 lads say my money would be taken from me, and I 
 just put it where the nobs couldn't find it. Whist ! 
 there's the bal ; turn in you, and come again when the 
 nob has been through the place." 
 
 Lynch crawled carefully into his bed, and presently 
 the second lieutenant went through the steerage. All 
 was quiet as before, and he saw no reason to suspect 
 the mischief which was brewing. As soon as he had 
 gone on deck, the tenant of the middle berth, tempted 
 by the prospect of making a sovereign, returned to 
 the door. 
 
 " Now, speak quick, and tell me what you want," 
 said he. 
 
 " I'll do that, if you'll bargain to do what I want for 
 the sovereign." 
 
 " I won't till I know what I'm to do, you had better 
 believe." 
 
 " You are to halp me out without danger to your 
 self-"
 
 40 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I'll do it ; but not till you pay me the money, for 
 I'm not so sure you have a sovereign about you," 
 added the prudent Lynch. 
 
 " That's no fair. How do I know you'll let me out 
 when you get my money. I'll give you ten shillings 
 now, and ten more after I'm free : that's fair." 
 
 " Well, I agree to that." 
 
 McLeish retreated to the farther part of his cell, and 
 presently reappeared with a half sovereign which he 
 had taken from one of his stockings. He handed it to 
 Lynch, who examined it very carefully to assure him 
 self that it was pure coin. The weight and color sat 
 isfied him, and he intimated to the prisoner that the 
 money was all right. 
 
 " Do you know where to find a screw-driver? " asked 
 McLeish, nervously, as the prospect of carrying out 
 his scheme improved. 
 
 " No, I don't ; how do you "expect me to find a screw 
 driver at this time of night?" 
 
 " Naver mind ; a knife will just do as well. Here, 
 take mine, and remove the four screws from the lock." 
 
 Lynch took the large jackknife handed to him, and 
 went to work with it. The joiner's work was new, 
 and the screws came out pretty easily. Within the 
 five minutes allotted for the task, he had removed the 
 lock and drawn the bolt out of the iron box into which 
 it slid. 
 
 " My job is done," whispered the operator, holding 
 the lock in his hand. " Now give me the other half 
 sovereign, or I'll screw it on again." 
 
 " Don't be in such haste, mon," replied McLeish. 
 " How am I tq get away npw ? "
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 4! 
 
 " I don't know ; that's your lookout, not mine. I 
 have done all I agreed to do. Hand over the stamps, 
 or I'll put the lock on again," persisted the matter-of- 
 fact occupant of the middle berth, starboard side. 
 
 " You're a good fallow, Lynch." 
 
 " So I am ; pay up." 
 
 " I'll do it when I come out." 
 
 " Come out and do it then." 
 
 The prisoner retired to the dark part of his cell 
 again to obtain the other half sovereign from the 
 depths of his stocking. He produced it, came out of 
 the brig, and handed it over to the outsider. 
 
 " That's all I want," said Lynch, as he took the coin 
 and crawled back into his berth. 
 
 McLeish, who had taken the lock as a receipt for 
 the last payment, inserted the bolt in the iron chamber, 
 and restored the screws to their places, so that the door 
 looked just as it had before it was tampered with. 
 Hardly had he finished this job before seven bells 
 struck, and the visit of the officer of the watch was 
 again to be expected. The stroke of the bell almost 
 paralyzed him, for he did not know which way to 
 turn. To be discovered would defeat his plans. He 
 heard the step of Lieutenant Marty n on the deck as 
 he approached the fore hatch. The situation was des 
 perate, and, without considering that there were twelve 
 empty berths in the steerage, he sprang into Lynch's 
 bunk, and crawled over next to the ceiling of the 
 vessel. 
 
 "What are you doing?" growled his confederate. 
 
 " Hush ! The officer is coming ! " replied McLeish. 
 
 JBoth of them kept entirely still, and Martyn went 
 4*
 
 42 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 his rounds. There was not a sound to be heard save 
 the breathing of the sleepers, and the lieutenant re 
 turned to the deck, assured that no mischief had been 
 perpetrated during his watch. 
 
 "What did you get in here for, you fool?" snarled 
 Lynch, as soon as the step of the officer was heard on 
 the deck above them. 
 
 " I want to give you another sovereign for more 
 halp," replied McLeish. 
 
 " Say on quick, then, for my watch on deck will be 
 called in half an hour," answered Lynch.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 43 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE ANCHOR WATCH. 
 
 YOU are a good fallow, Lynch," said McLeish, 
 in the whisper to which all the conversation 
 had necessarily been confined. 
 
 " Don't waste your time in telling me what I know 
 as well as you do," protested Lynch. " Show me 
 how you intend to get rid of the sovereign ; that's all 
 I want to hear." 
 
 " I'll tall you presently. Who will be the officer 
 next in charge of the deck?" 
 
 " I don't know ; the first and second lieutenants 
 have been on; I suppose the third will come next 
 that's Robinson." 
 
 " We must muzzle him, and then lower a boat," 
 continued the conspirator, evidently getting ahead of 
 his story. 
 
 "Muzzle him?" added Lynch, inquiringly. 
 
 " Ay, sairtainly ; muzzle him : there will be three 
 of us, and we can do it just as easy as we can let him 
 alone." 
 
 " I don't exactly understand the programme." 
 
 " In half an hour you and Grossbeck will go on 
 deck do ye mind? I will go with you. When the 
 officer walks forward where we are, we'll just knock
 
 44 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 him down, and put a handkerchief in his mouth. 
 Then we will lower away one of the boats, and pull 
 for the shore. That's all easy enough isn't it?" 
 
 " I think it is just as easy as to put your head 
 into a halter, or your fingers into the fire," replied 
 Lynch. 
 
 " But you will go ashore, mon, and have a good 
 time. Liverpool is a big place, and there's lots of 
 fun there." 
 
 " We should be brought back in a few days, as 
 Wilton was." 
 
 " That was because Wilton didn't know the country 
 as I do. I'll take care of you." 
 
 " I don't know that Grossbeck will have anything to 
 do with the scrape. The fellows are too well suited 
 with their quarters here for the present." 
 
 ''I will just give you and Grossbeck a sovereign 
 apiece," said McLeish, punching his berth-mate in the 
 side, to emphasize the liberality of his offer. 
 
 " How long would a sovereign apiece last us if we 
 had to live at the hotels on shore? If I had twenty 
 pounds, or so, as Wilton had, I would think of it ; as 
 it is, I believe I won't make another sovereign to 
 night," replied the cautious Lynch. 
 
 The Josephine had too many charms, even to a fel 
 low like the occupant of the middle berth, to permit 
 him to engage in such a hazardous enterprise as run 
 ning away with only forty shillings in his pocket ; for 
 a second-class fare to London would use up more than 
 half of his funds. The experience of Wilton and Mon 
 roe, as related by the principal to the students, was a 
 lesson by which he was disposed to profit.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 45 
 
 " You won't halp me? " said McLeish. 
 
 " I've helped you enough. I can't do any more." 
 
 " Hoot, mon ! What am I to do? I might as well 
 be in the brig as out of it, if you won't halp me to get 
 ashore." 
 
 " I'll help you all I can ; but I won't knock any 
 lieutenants down, or do anything of that sort. I'm 
 not going to spend a month in the brig for the sake of 
 a day's fun on shore not I." 
 
 " Then you desairt me?" said the culprit, moodily. 
 
 " Haven't I done all I agreed to do? " retorted 
 Lynch. 
 
 " You have ; but you knew very well it was no use 
 for me to get out of the brig, if I couldn't leave the 
 vessel." 
 
 " That wasrr't any of my business." 
 
 " Well, mon, you'll just find it's your business. I'll 
 tell the officers, when they find me in the morning, 
 who let me out ; and I'll have your good company in 
 the brig when I go back," added McLeish, maliciously. 
 
 " Humph ! " sneered Lynch ; but after all, the an 
 nouncement was a "poser" to him. 
 
 The reprobate would get him into a scrape, even 
 before he had spent the money earned. He would 
 not only be sent to the brig, but the sovereign would 
 be taken from him. It is dangerous to enter into the 
 counsels of rogues and villains, and Lynch found him 
 self in a very unpleasant box. He knew his com 
 panion was mean enough to betray him, and his 
 threats were not idle ones. 
 
 " I'm willing to do anything I can for you," said 
 Lynch, uneasily.
 
 46 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Then why don't you do it? If you don't halp me 
 off, you shall spend to-morrow in the brig with me. 
 We'll hang together, my good friend. You have 
 taken my money, and you must do my work." 
 
 u Knocking an officer down is mutiny," said Lynch. 
 " I don't want to do that ; and I don't think there is 
 any need of doing it. Leave the matter to me, and 
 I will manage it." 
 
 " I'll just leave it to you, if you like." 
 
 " Keep still, now," said Lynch, who had whispered 
 himself hoarse. " I want to think it over." 
 
 The culprit did keep still, and Lynch thought it 
 over ; but he was considering how he could untangle 
 his relations with the prisoner, rather than devising a 
 plan to get him away from the vessel. Before he had 
 settled the matter in his own mind, eight bells struck. 
 
 " Keep still, McLeish. I shall be called in a min 
 ute," said he, in hurried tones. " When I rap twice 
 three on the deck above your head, come up." 
 
 " Twice three," repeated McLeish. 
 
 " Yes ; now keep down there out of sight." 
 
 Lieutenant Martyn came into the steerage, and after 
 glancing at his watch list, under the lantern, he called 
 Grossbeck and Lynch, and passed into the cabin to 
 awaken his successor. Lynch and Grossbeck went 
 on deck, and the two seamen whose watch had ex 
 pired repaired to their berths. McLeish kept perfectly 
 still in the bunk, waiting for the expected signal, 
 though he knew it could not be given till the two who 
 had just turned in had gone to sleep, and the circum 
 stances on deck favored his going up. 
 
 There was a small top-gallant forecastle at the bow
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 47 
 
 of the schooner, on which the anchor watch were 
 stationed, so that they could see everything that ap~ 
 proached, in any direction. The officer of the watch 
 " planked " the quarter-deck, or sat upon the seats on 
 each side of the after skylight. The head steward had 
 put a lunch on the cabin table, for something to eat 
 was a great help in keeping awake. There was noth 
 ing for him to do except to make the round below, 
 and to see that the watch forward were awake ; and 
 he amused himself in any manner that suited his 
 fancy. 
 
 Lynch and Grossbeck seated themselves on the jib, 
 stowed on the bowsprit, and made themselves as com 
 fortable as possible. In a low tone Lynch told his 
 watch-mate what had happened below, and that 
 McLeish was in his berth, waiting for the signal to 
 come on deck. 
 
 " In a word, Grossbeck, I'm in a bad fix," said 
 Lynch, as he wound up his narrative. " The sneak 
 will blow on me just as sure as he is discovered. He 
 gave me these two half sovereigns ; you take one of 
 them, and we will call it square." 
 
 Grossbeck did not object to this arrangement ; and 
 without any compunction of conscience, he put the 
 ten-shilling piece in his pocket, thinking of what 
 it would purchase when the crew had liberty on 
 shore. 
 
 " What shall we do with him ? " asked Lynch, 
 anxiously. 
 
 " That's the question," replied Grossbeck. " What 
 shall we do with him ? " 
 
 " Of course we can't lower one of the boats and
 
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 turn him adrift without the officer's seeing us," added 
 Lynch. " I don't mean to get into any scrape." 
 
 " Nor I : this vessel suits me too well just now, and 
 I don't want to leave her. I have it ! " exclaimed 
 Grossbeck, suddenly, as he glanced over the port 
 bow of the schooner. " There is a plank stage hang 
 ing below the hawse-hole, where the carpenter was 
 calking a seam. He has to paint it again in the morn 
 ing, and he left his stage. We can turn him adrift on 
 that. We can lower it into the water the next time 
 the officer goes below." 
 
 " Do you think McLeish will go off with nothing 
 but a plank under him? " asked Lynch. 
 
 " If he wants to go very bad, he will." 
 
 " The tide is going out, and it runs like sixty here. 
 It would carry him out to sea." 
 
 " That's his business." 
 
 " I don't believe hell do it. I wouldn't." 
 
 " Nor I either," added Grossbeck, candidly. u But 
 if we give him the chance, it will show that we are 
 ready to help him." 
 
 " That's so ; but he would certainly be drowned if 
 he went oft* on the plank." 
 
 " Never fear ; he won't go." 
 
 " Well ; what then? " asked Lynch. " What shall 
 we do with him ? " 
 
 " We must get him back into the brig, and lock him 
 up again," laughed Grossbeck. " We must shake the 
 dust off our feet, any how." 
 
 4i There goes the lieutenant down into the cabin. 
 We'll get McLeish on deck," added Lynch, jumping 
 down from the top-gallant forecastle, and giving the 
 signal with the heel of his shoe on the deck.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 49 
 
 The prisoner lost no time in obeying the summons. 
 He was directed to mount the forecastle, and was 
 then assisted over the rail into the head, on the port 
 side, where he could not be seen by the officer. 
 
 " We have arranged it all," said Grossbeck, " and 
 you may go ashore as soon as you please." 
 
 " 1 knew you would be my friend," replied McLeish, 
 gratefully. 
 
 " We have made it all right for you," added Gross- 
 beck, in lively tones, as though he had no idea that 
 his proposition would be declined. 
 
 " Well, where is the boat? " demanded McLeish. 
 
 " Boat ! My dear fellow, we can't get a boat. The 
 oars are all locked up in the captain's state-room ; be 
 sides, the plugs are all pulled out of the bottoms, and 
 the first lieutenant has them in his trowsers pocket. 
 They wouldn't float a minute with a fellow in them." 
 
 Lynch thought his companion's statements were 
 rather " steep ; " but as the culprit did not question 
 them, he did not feel obliged to contradict them. 
 
 " We would tip the officer over and gag him, as you 
 suggested, and go ashore with you, if the boats were 
 only in condition to carry us," continued Grossbeck. 
 " You are a good fellow, McLeish, and we want to 
 help you off." 
 
 "But how am I to go ashore without a boat?" 
 asked McLeish. 
 
 " That's easy enough. You can swim can't you ? " 
 
 " Sairtainly I can ; but you don't expect me to swim 
 ashore do you?" 
 
 " It's not more than half a mile," suggested Gross- 
 beck. 
 
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 " But I'll no do. that." 
 
 "I didn't know but you would prefer to swim 
 ashore." 
 
 " Sairtainly not." 
 
 " Then we can do something better for you ! Hush ! 
 there comes the officer." 
 
 "One bell," said Mr. Robinson, coming as far as 
 the foremast. 
 
 Lynch struck the bell, and the lieutenant went aft 
 again, after he had visited the steerage. 
 
 " All right again," said Grossbeck. 
 
 "You were going to tall me how I was to get 
 ashore," added McLeish. 
 
 " I was ; and we have fixed that matter so that you 
 can go ashore as nicely as you could in a boat. Do 
 you see that plank stage under the hawse-hole?" 
 
 " I don't see it," replied the culprit, looking down 
 into the darkness in the direction indicated. 
 
 " There's a plank there ; get down on the bobstay, 
 and you can see it." 
 
 McLeish changed his position so that he could dis 
 cern the outline of the plank, which was about eight 
 feet long and a foot wide. 
 
 " Surely you don't expact me to go to the shore on 
 a bit of a plank like that ! " exclaimed McLeish. 
 
 "Why not? My grandfather crossed the Atlantic 
 Ocean on a plank no bigger than that." 
 
 " Hoot, mon ! You are funning with me." 
 
 " No, I'm not. It's easy enough to go half a mile 
 on a plank like that." 
 
 " Is there no danger?" 
 
 " Of course there is danger. There's always danger
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 51 
 
 when you are on the water. You don't expect to run 
 away from your ship without getting into some danger 
 do you ? " 
 
 " I'll no trust my life on a bit of a plank like that," 
 said McLeish, decidedly. 
 
 "What can we do then?" asked Grossbeck, with 
 apparent perplexity. 
 
 " You must get me a boat." 
 
 " Shall I go down into the cabin and ask the 
 captain for the oars, and the first lieutenant for the 
 plugs?" 
 
 " Surely not." 
 
 " We are i - eady to do all we can to help you, if you 
 will only tell us what," pleaded Grossbeck. " If you 
 will go on the plank, we will lower you down into the 
 water the next time the officer goe, below, which will 
 be at two bells, if not before." 
 
 " I should sairtainly be drowned." 
 
 " Perhaps you would, but you must take that risk in 
 running away." 
 
 " I'll no do it ; I'm not ready to be drowned yet." 
 
 " See here," interposed Lynch ; " this thing can be 
 managed 'first rate by to-morrow or next day. We 
 can get a shore boat to come alongside, when Gross- 
 beck and I have our next watch. Leave the whole 
 matter to us, McLeish, and we will fix it." 
 
 " That's the better way. When our next watch 
 comes, we can have everything ready," added Gross- 
 beck. 
 
 " But what am I to do ? " inquired McLeish. 
 
 " You must go back to the brig, and stay there till 
 there is a chance for us to put you ashore."
 
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 " I don't like that," growled the culprit. 
 
 " Well, if you will tell us what to do, we'll do it," 
 said Lynch. 
 
 McLeish could not tell them what to do ; and he 
 finally consented to be locked up in his dungeon again, 
 to await a more favorable opportunity to escape. It 
 was a bitter necessity to him ; and as his plan had 
 failed, he insisted that Lynch should return the sover 
 eign he had paid.* 
 
 " Let's give it back to him," suggested Grossbeck, 
 who was willing to shake off all connection with the 
 transaction. 
 
 " I will, if he desires it," replied Lynch. 
 
 " Two bells," called the officer of the watch, as he 
 came forward, and then descended to the steerage. 
 
 Robinson returned to the deck, and after a little 
 while went down into the cabin. As soon as he 
 disappeared, McLeish was sent below, when he re 
 moved the lock from the door, and went into the brig 
 again. When the watch was relieved, an hour later. 
 Lynch, who had procured a screw-driver from the car 
 penter's box, screwed it on again, and the culprit was 
 once more a prisoner. 
 
 " You did not give me back my money," whispered 
 the insider. 
 
 " No, but I will, if you say so," replied the other. 
 u I did all I agreed to do for it, and if you made any 
 blunder, it was not my fault." 
 
 " But here I am, and it's no right for me to pay 
 twenty shillings for nothing," snaiied McLeish. 
 
 "i'ou bothered me and kept me awake half the 
 night. I will give the money back to you, and you
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AN.D WALES. 53 
 
 may stay in the brig till somebody besides me lets you 
 out," answered Lynch. " I gave half a sovereign to 
 Grossbeck ; I will get that." 
 
 " Don't do it ; keep the money, and halp me as you 
 agreed to do," replied McLeish, alarmed at the terms 
 on which the gold was to be returned. "Just keep it, 
 and say no more about it." 
 
 Lynch was quite willing to do this ; and leaving the 
 prisoner to himself, he quietly turned in, to sleep as 
 soundly as though he had been engaged in no plot. 
 The night wore away without any further incident, 
 and as no one except the conspirators had lost more 
 than two hours' sleep, they were fresh and bright when 
 all hands were called in the morning. The decks were 
 washed down, and the usual ship's duty performed. 
 
 " Signal on board the ship, sir," said a quarter 
 master, reporting to the first lieutenant. 
 
 " Pass the word for the signal officer," replied Ter* 
 rill. 
 
 Mr. Lockwood, the fourth master, was the signal 
 officer, and he immediately appeared on the quarter 
 deck with the signal-book in his hand. Both the ship 
 and her consort were provided with the numbers, a 
 series of flags, each representing, by its combination 
 and arrangement of colors, one of the Arabic figures 
 or the zero. With these flags any number can be ex 
 pressed. Vessels carry a printed signal-book, in which 
 various nautical questions and answers are placed 
 against the numbers. Other numbers are set against 
 the names of ships, so that a vessel hoisting her num 
 ber may thus communicate it to another vessel several 
 miles distant. 
 
 5*
 
 54 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 On the evening before the officers of the Josephine 
 left the ship, a private signal-book had been made, 
 with questions, answers, and orders relating to the cir 
 cumstances of the two vessels. The numbers com 
 menced with one hundred, but the book had not been 
 completed, only about twenty different messages being 
 recorded. A copy of the code was written out for 
 each vessel. Of course they could communicate on 
 ordinary matters by means of the general signal-book. 
 
 "What's the number?" asked the signal officer. 
 
 " One hundred and five," replied the quarter-master. 
 
 Lockwood opened his book, and found this number. 
 
 " All hands attend lecture on board the ship," he 
 read from the book, against the number. 
 
 The signal was hoisted on the Josephine to indicate 
 that the message was seen and understood. 
 
 " We are to have Mr. Mapps's lecture on England, 
 I suppose," said Captain Kendall. 
 
 "Does all hands include McLeish?" asked the first 
 lieutenant. 
 
 " Certainly not ; Wilton and Monroe will not leave 
 the brig to attend, I presume." 
 
 At quarter before eight the boats' crews were called, 
 and all hands embarked. The first lieutenant directed 
 Cleats, the boatswain, to keep an eye on the brig, and 
 see that the prisoner did not escape. In a few mo 
 ments the ship's company were on the deck of the 
 Young America. Their arrival created quite a sensa 
 tion. Paul and his officers were warmly greeted by 
 their late associates, and all the questions which the 
 time would permit were asked and answered. 
 
 " How do you get along, Captain Kendall? " asked
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 55 
 
 the principal, with a kindly smile, as he took the hand 
 of the young commander. 
 
 " Very well, I think, sir," replied Paul. 
 
 " I looked for McLeish, as your crew came over the 
 side, but I did not see him," added Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " He did not come with us, sir ; he is in the brig," 
 answered Paul, doubtfully. 
 
 " In the brig ! " exclaimed the fountain of authority. 
 
 " Yes, sir ; he was committed by my order before 
 he had been on board an hour." 
 
 " I did not expect he would give you any trouble so 
 soon. What was the matter." 
 
 The first lieutenant was called to tell his story, and 
 he gave all the particulars. 
 
 " I am sorry this has happened ; but you have 
 done well, all of you. You have kept up the disci 
 pline of your vessel, and I not only approve your 
 action, but I thank you for it. Why didn't you send 
 for trie?" 
 
 " We needed no help, sir, and I had no orders to 
 send for you," replied Paul. 
 
 " Very true ; but didn't you want me?" added Mr. 
 Lowington, with a smile. 
 
 " I should have been very glad to see you, as I 
 always am, but I didn't like to acknowledge that we 
 couldn't discipline our crew." 
 
 " You are aware that one of the numbers in your 
 signal-book is, ' Trouble on board.' If you had hoisted 
 this signal I should have visited you at once." 
 
 " There was trouble on board, but we did not need 
 any assistance. If I had understood that you wished 
 me to inform you immediately when any difficulty
 
 56 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 occurred, I should have sent for you, or hoisted the 
 signal." 
 
 " The matter was left entirely to your own discre 
 tion. I do not purpose to interfere with the discipline; 
 of the Josephine, unless her captain requests me to do 
 so, or unless I find, upon examination, that it is below 
 our standard. I am entirely satisfied with what you 
 have done. When you desire it, I will transfer any 
 officer or seaman from the schooner to the ship, though 
 not without a fair hearing, if the party complained of 
 demands it." 
 
 " I thank you, Mr. Lowington, for the confidence 
 you repose in me, and I will endeavor to merit it 
 by being faithful to my duty," added Paul, blushing 
 deeply. 
 
 " I suppose you wish to get rid of McLeish now 
 don't you?" said the principal, with a smile. 
 
 " No, sir ; the first lieutenant does not ask for his 
 removal, and I shall not, as long as he does not com 
 plain. I think we can manage him." 
 
 " Your experience with McLeish is just what every 
 ship-master is occasionally obliged to pass through. 
 The lowest and vilest men often get into the forecastle 
 of a ship, and make trouble by their turbulence and 
 disobedience. The lesson is one which every sea cap 
 tain has to learn. He must be firm and decided, but 
 at the same time he should treat his crew well. He 
 should win their respect and confidence by kindness 
 and consideration, as well as by prompt and energetic 
 action in the time of trouble. You are learning this 
 lesson now ; and you will find that your cabin is not a 
 bed of roses for you and your officers."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 5^ 
 
 Mr. Lowington directed the captain of the ship to 
 pipe the students to the steerage for the lecture. 
 
 " Captain Kendall, I have much to say to you, and 
 I think you can afford to lose a portion of the profess 
 or's lecture," added the principal, as he led the way to 
 a couple of seats near the wheel. 
 
 " I am tolerably well posted in the geography and 
 history of England, though I suppose I should profit 
 by Mr. Mapps's lecture," replied Paul, as he sat down 
 at Mr. Lowington's side. 
 
 " I will not detain you long. We shall go on shore 
 this afternoon ; but I am tired of marshalling the whole 
 ship's company in one body. We have sixty-nine sea 
 men entitled to liberty. We have, including the chap 
 lain, the surgeon, and myself, nine men to take charge 
 of them, which will make seven or eight students to 
 each. I purpose to let them visit the docks and other 
 places of interest in small parties. Two or three 
 would be better than seven or eight. I shall presume 
 that the officers can take care of themselves ; so can 
 a portion of the seamen in the Josephine. How many 
 of your crew can you trust' without some one to watch 
 them." 
 
 " Half of them, I think," replied Paul. 
 
 " Dr. Winstock and Mr. Mapps will take charge of 
 such of your crew as need their supervision. You will 
 arrange that." 
 
 " Wouldn't it be better to trust them all, sir? " asked 
 Paul. 
 
 " Such students as Lynch and Sanborn?" 
 
 u If we put them on their good behavior, I think 
 they will do well. I don't like to make any distinc 
 tion among them."
 
 58 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 The principal acknowledged that Paul was right, 
 and he was permitted to use his own judgment in 
 regard to liberty. 
 
 " One thing more, Captain Kendall," added Mr. 
 Lowington. " I suppose you desire to try the sailing 
 qualities of your vessel." 
 
 " Very much indeed, sir," replied Paul, with enthu 
 siasm. 
 
 " You shall have the opportunity soon. To-morrow 
 w*ill be Sunday. Monday will be a holiday, when we 
 shall celebrate the Fourth of July. On Tuesday you 
 may start on your trial trip." 
 
 "Where shall we go?" asked Paul, delighted with 
 the permission. 
 
 " Anywhere you please. I will give you three days 
 for the trip. I have full confidence in you, Captain 
 Kendall but you must be very discreet and very care 
 ful. Now we will go to the steerage, and hear what 
 Mr. Mapps has to say."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 59 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 " ALL HANDS, ATTEND LECTURE, AHOY ! " 
 
 PAUL KENDALL was amazed at the confidence 
 reposed in him by the principal. On Tuesday 
 he was to go to sea in the Josephine, without any 
 superior officer to control his movements. He had 
 the privilege of going where he pleased, and was 
 limited only as to time. But he was perfectly sure 
 that he could, take the schooner across the Atlantic 
 Ocean, or even around the world. He went down 
 into the steerage of the ship to hear the lecture with 
 a feeling of elation he had not before experienced, 
 and it was some time before he could get hold of the 
 thread of the professor's discourse. 
 
 When the boatswain's call, " All hands, attend lec 
 ture, ahoy ! " had sounded through the ship, the crews 
 of the Young America and Josephine had mingled 
 together, and taken their places as usual. A large 
 outline map of Great Britain hung on the foremast, 
 and the professor stood with the pointer in his hand 
 ready to proceed. Most of the students were tolera 
 bly familiar with the geography and history of Eng 
 land,, and it was not supposed that the instructor 
 would tell them much that was new. The lecture 
 was a kind of review, intended to refresh the memory
 
 60 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 of the students, and create or renew an interest in the 
 country they were now visiting. 
 
 " Young gentlemen, what is the official designation 
 of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales?" the pro 
 fessor inquired. 
 
 " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire 
 land," .replied the boys in concert. 
 
 " Now, what is meant by Great Britain?" 
 
 " The island which includes England, Wales, and 
 Scotland." 
 
 " Very well ; we will now confine our attention to 
 England, reserving the distinctive features of Wales 
 for a future lesson. What names have you ever heard 
 applied to England? " 
 
 " Britannia." 
 
 " A Roman name," added Mr. Mapps. " What 
 other?" 
 
 " Albion." 
 
 " Also a Roman name, and it doubtless came from 
 the Latin word albus, meaning white, derived proba 
 bly from the white, chalky cliffs of the county of 
 Kent, whose shores are the portion of England lying 
 nearest to France." 
 
 "John Bull," added a student. 
 
 " That is a name applied to the people of England, 
 first used by Dean Swift. A satirical novel, called 
 ' The History of John Bull,' by Arbuthnot, perpetuated 
 the appellation. I think the popular idea of the Eng 
 lish, as a people who believe in roast beef, is the most 
 significant explanation of the term. 
 
 " From north to south, England has an extent of 
 four hundred miles, and from east to west of two htm-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 6 1 
 
 dred and eighty miles. The perimeter is ten hundred 
 and eighty-seven, but following all the indentations of 
 the sea, the coast line would be about two thousand 
 miles. The area of England is nearly fifty-one thou 
 sand square miles, or about the size of the States of 
 Iowa or Alabama. Wales has about seven thousand 
 four hundred square miles, which does not vary much 
 from the State of Massachusetts, while England and 
 Wales unitedly are about the size of the State of 
 Geoi'giu. 
 
 " The surface of the country is moderately uneven, 
 nearly all of it being beautifully diversified by gentle 
 elevations and by broad valleys and plains. The land 
 is remarkably productive and fertile^ and the system 
 of agriculture is the best in the world. Of more 'than 
 four and a half million acres in England, only six or 
 seven thousand are unfit for cultivation, which could 
 not be the case if the country were as rugged and un 
 even as Scotland, or portions of Ireland. 
 
 " Nearly all the mountainous region lies in the west 
 ern part of the island. The Cheviot Hills, in part, 
 divide England and Scotland," said Mr. Mapps, point 
 ing them out on the map. " A continuation of them, 
 running nearly south, is called the Pennine chain." 
 
 " Our maps don't say so," interposed Terrill, who 
 always had an opinion of his own, and was always 
 ready to back it up. 
 
 " What do your maps say ? " asked the professor. 
 
 " The range you mention is called the Cumbrian 
 Mountains." 
 
 " You are quite correct, Mr. Terrill," added Mr. 
 Mapps. " Many of the school atlases have but one 
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 62 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 range, which is designated as the Cumbrian Moun 
 tains. This is not according to the best authorities. 
 The continuation of the Cheviot Hills is now called 
 the Pennine chain. They extend into Derbyshire, 
 which is one of the middle counties of England, 
 lying nearly due east of us. West of the Pennine 
 chain, in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancaster 
 counties, is another range. These are the Cambrian 
 Mountains. Among them, and in these three coun 
 ties, are all the lakes of any note in England. Ulls- 
 water, nine miles long, and Windermere (the largest 
 lake in England), ten and a half miles long, are noted 
 for the beauty of the surrounding scenery. These 
 sheets of water are about the size of Otsego and Sara- 
 nac Lakes in New York. If you visit them, I dare say 
 you will think they are very fine, but not at all equal 
 to the recommendation of the English people. 
 
 " In Wales are the Cambrian Mountains. The 
 Devonian range is in Devon and Cornwall, extend 
 ing to Land's End, the south-western point of Eng 
 land. I have mentioned the principal mountains, 
 though there are others which have attained the dig 
 nity of being named. There are no high mountains 
 in Great Britain. Ben Nevis, in Scotland, is the 
 highest, and Snowden, in Wales, three thousand five 
 hundred and seventy-one feet high, is the loftiest peak 
 south of the Cheviot Hills. Scawfell, Helvellyn, and 
 Skiddaw, each about three thousand feet high, are in 
 the Cumbrian range. 
 
 " As I have before stated, there are no large rivers 
 in the United Kingdom, judged by the American 
 standard. The Thames is the longest, and, as regards
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 63 
 
 its navigation, the most important even in the world. 
 The Severn is but five miles less in length than the 
 Thames, having a course of two hundred and ten miles. 
 The Trent comes next one hundred and forty miles 
 long. The Hurnber is the estuary of the Great Ouse 
 and the Trent. The Mersey, in which our ship floats, 
 is only sixty miles in length. Many of these rivers 
 have broad mouths, which afford excellent harbors. 
 We must not measure the importance of these rivers 
 by their lengths, for on them are some of the greatest 
 commercial cities in the world, which owe their pros 
 perity to their navigable waters. 
 
 " If any other country in the world is richer in 
 mineral products than England, none has more effec 
 tively and advantageously worked its mines, and prof 
 ited by their wealth. Lead, coal, copper, zinc, tin, 
 and iron are obtained in great quantities. England, 
 to a greater extent than any other nation, is a manu 
 facturing country. Its mines of iron have supplied 
 the raw material for its artisans, and great cities, like 
 Birmingham and Sheffield, have been built up by the 
 manufacture of this metal alone. 
 
 " As a maritime and commercial power, England 
 has been rivalled only by the United States.* To use 
 the stale figure, the sails of its commerce whiten every 
 sea. It long ranked as the greatest nation of the 
 world, and its commerce has been the essential ele 
 ment of its greatness. 
 
 " The climate of England is moist and humid, but 
 
 * The tonnage of the United Kingdom, in 1862. was 
 4.,394,40O; of the United States, 5.112,165.
 
 64 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 less rain falls in a year than in the United States. 
 In one year thirty-two inches of rain fell in England ; 
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the rain-gauge indicated 
 thirty-eight inches the same year. There is more 
 cloudy, muggy weather here than in our country. In 
 my last visit to Europe, 1 was in England sixteen days, 
 on every one of which there was a fall of rain ; but 
 there was much pleasant weather, and some of the 
 showers lasted but a few moments. In London, dur 
 ing some portions of the year, you may not see the 
 sun for a week. 
 
 " I do not think it necessary, young gentlemen, to 
 follow out in detail the history of England. It has 
 been a progressive nation, and the story of freedom in 
 our own land is but a continuation of the history of 
 the struggle for liberty in this older country. Her 
 people have often and stubbornly fought the battle 
 against tyranny and oppression. They have done 
 more than any other people to establish the right of 
 the subject to himself and his earnings. 
 
 " Britain was invaded and conquered by the Ro 
 mans. They held the country for about five centuries. 
 It was afterwards invaded and ravaged by the savage 
 Scots and Picts, against whom the Britons could not 
 sustain themselves. In danger of being overwhelmed, 
 they begged the Saxons, a warlike tribe in northern 
 Germany, to help them. The Saxons did all they 
 were asked to do, and more. They drove the north 
 ern barbarians back to their hills, and then, find 
 ing the country much superior to their own, they 
 subdued and drove the Britons to the mountains and 
 other retreats, and took possession of their lands. In
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 65 
 
 this work the Saxons were leagued with the Jutes and 
 the Angles, from the latter of whom England derived 
 its name. 
 
 " A long and severe struggle followed between the 
 Britons and the invaders, in which King Arthur is 
 said to have defeated them in many engagements ; 
 but the Saxons finally prevailed. Seven kingdoms, 
 called the Heptarchy, were established ; but they were 
 united into one monarchy by Egbert, under the name 
 of England. The country was frequently invaded by 
 the Danes and Northmen, and the kings for the next 
 two hundred years had their hands full in repelling 
 the incursions of their savage neighbors on the other 
 side of the North Sea. 
 
 " Edward the Confessor, who died in 1065, be 
 queathed his crown to William Duke of Normandy, 
 in France, which, according to monarchical rule, he 
 had no right to do. Edgar Atheling was the true 
 heir ; but Harold, a descendant of King Sweyn, a 
 Dane, who was also a descendant of Edward the 
 Elder, was proclaimed King of England by the clergy 
 and the nobility. William of Normandy, determined 
 to establish his claim to the crown, invaded England 
 with an immense army. Harold met him with his 
 forces at Hastings, but was defeated and slain. The 
 nation submitted, and the duke became king, under 
 the title of William the Conqueror. 
 
 " The Saxon and the Norman families were united 
 by the marriage of Henry I. to a descendant of one 
 of the earlier kings. When he died, the crown be 
 longed to his daughter Matilda, who had first married 
 the Emperor of Germany, and then Geoffrey Planta-
 
 66 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 genet. Her son by her second husband became King 
 Henry II., the first of the Plantagenet family, from 
 which Queen Victoria is directly descended. The 
 houses of Lancaster and York were branches of the 
 Plantagenet family. Henry IV., the Duke of Lan 
 caster, obtained the throne by displacing Richard II. 
 
 "The wars of the Roses broke out in 1455, in the 
 reign of Henry VI., grandson of the first Lancaster. 
 The symbol of the house of York was a white rose, 
 of Lancaster, a red one. The former was descended 
 from the third, and the latter from the fourth son of 
 Edward III. The York branch had the right, and 
 established it after some severe battles, and Edward 
 IV. became King. He left two sons ; but Richard, 
 Duke of Gloucester, usurped the throne, and caused 
 the rightful heir and his brother to be smothered in 
 the Tower. The Earl of Richmond, belonging to the 
 house of Lancaster, defeated Richard III. in the battle 
 of Bosworth, and obtained the crown. In order to 
 strengthen his claim, which was weak, he married the 
 daughter of Edward IV., a Yorkist, thus uniting the 
 two branches, which had so long been struggling for 
 the throne. He was the first sovereign of the Tudor 
 family. He was followed by his son, Henry VIII., 
 who married so many wives, and left three children, 
 all of whom became sovereigns of England. The 
 son, Edward VI., succeeded to the throne at the age of 
 ten, and died when he was sixteen. His successor 
 was his sister Mary ; and at her death, after a reign 
 of only five years, Elizabeth ascended the throne. 
 She was queen for forty-four years, and was the last 
 of the Tudor line.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 67 
 
 " Elizabeth was unmarried, and there was no direct 
 successor to the crown. James IV. of Scotland had 
 married the oldest daughter of Henry VII. of Eng 
 land, and their son was James V. of Scotland, the 
 father of Mary Queen of Scots. James VI. of Scot 
 land, son of Mary, and great-grandson of the daughter 
 of Henry VII., was therefore the heir to the throne, 
 and he succeeded Elizabeth, being the first of the 
 Stuarts in England. 
 
 " His son, Charles I., followed him. During his 
 reign, the struggle between the people and the despotic 
 power of the Stuarts culminated, and the sovereign 
 was beheaded. The people having wrested the au 
 thority from their rulers, the Commonwealth was 
 established, and Cromwell became Protector. Mon 
 archy was restored in the person of Charles II., who 
 died after a reign of twenty-five years, and was suc 
 ceeded by his brother, the Duke of York, who became 
 James II. He was a Catholic, and endeavored to es 
 tablish the Catholic religion in England. The effort 
 cost him his crown, for he was compelled to abandon 
 his throne, which was declared vacant. William, 
 Prince of Orange, who had married James's oldest 
 daughter, was invited to visit England, and landed 
 with an army at Torbay. The principal nobles de 
 serted the c'ause of the absent monarch, and flocked 
 to the standard of his son-in-law. A convention de 
 cided that the king had abdicated his throne, and 
 declared William III. and Mary the joint sovereigns 
 of England. This event was the revolution of 1688. 
 
 "On the death of William Mary having died 
 seven years before the crown descended to Anne,
 
 65 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Mary's sister, and the wife of Prince George of Den 
 mark. She left no children. William III. had pre 
 vailed upon Parliament to establish the right of 
 succession to the crown in favor of Sophia, wife of 
 the Elector of Hanover, and granddaughter of James 
 I. This was manifestly unjust, for there were no less 
 than fifty-seven persons who had a better right than 
 the Electress to the throne. Sophia died a short time 
 before Anne, and her son, George I., succeeded to the 
 crown. George II. was his son ; George III. was the 
 grandson of George II. George IV. was the son of 
 George III., and was succeeded by his brother, under 
 the title of William IV. At his death without chil 
 dren, Victoria came to the throne. She is the grand 
 daughter of George III., and the niece of William. 
 
 u I have merely indicated the line of sovereigns who 
 have sat upon the throne of England. Captain Ken 
 dall, I dare say you can box the compass, but it is a 
 more difficult thing to repeat the names of the kings 
 of England." 
 
 " I can do it from William the Conqueror," replied 
 Paul. 
 
 " That is quite enough for any one to do," added 
 the instructor, who saw that his pupils were getting 
 tired of the subject, and found it necessary to change 
 his tactics. " What was the first line of kings, Mr. 
 Goodwin?" 
 
 " The Saxon." 
 
 " What next, Mr. Ward?" 
 
 " The Danes, who came in between the Saxons." 
 
 " What followed, Mr. Pelham?" 
 
 " The Norman."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 69 
 
 "And then, Lynch?" 
 
 " The Stuart family." 
 
 "Not yet. Baxter?" 
 
 " Plantagenet family." 
 
 " Right ; it had two branches. Which came into 
 power first, Mr. Lavender? " 
 
 " Lancaster." 
 
 "Then, Caldwell?" 
 
 " York." 
 
 " Who was the last king of the house of York, Mr. 
 Josselyn ? " 
 
 " Richard III." 
 
 " How did he lose his crown, Mr. Robinson?" 
 
 " Killed in the battle of Bosworth." 
 
 " What house came then, Hyde? " 
 
 " Tudor." 
 
 " Who was the first king, Baker? " 
 
 " Henry VII." 
 
 " Why do we have no further mention of York and 
 Lancaster, Lamb ? " 
 
 " The two houses were united by the marriage of 
 the king with the daughter of Edward IV." 
 
 " Who was the last of the Tudors, Mr. Ellis?" 
 
 " Elizabeth." 
 
 " What house then, Brown? " 
 
 " Stuart." 
 
 " Last of that line, Boyden?" 
 
 " Anne." 
 
 "What then, Johnson?" 
 
 " Hanover." 
 
 ' % ' Why so called, Captain Haven ? " 
 
 " Parliament, at the desire of William III., entailed
 
 70 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 the succession upon Sophia, wife of the Elector of 
 Hanover. George I., her son, was the Elector of 
 Hanover when called to the throne. It is sometimes 
 called the house of Brunswick, because the Elector 
 was also Duke of Brunswick." 
 
 " To what house does Victoria belong, Mr. Martyn ? " 
 
 " Hanover, or Brunswick." 
 
 " These different houses of course are all connected 
 by blood," added the professor. " Now, young gen 
 tlemen, what is the government of England? " 
 
 " Limited monarchy," shouted twenty of them. 
 
 " Who will be the next king? " 
 
 " Albert Edward, now Prince of Wales." 
 
 " He will reign as Edward VII. If he should die 
 before his mother, who would succeed her?" 
 
 " His Royal Highness Alfred-Ernest-Albert," re 
 plied an officer who had been studying an English 
 almanac, in which the names of the royal family were 
 given in full. 
 
 " No, sir ! " interposed Terrill. " Albert Victor, the 
 baby." 
 
 " You mean the son of the Prince of Wales," said 
 the professor. 
 
 " Yes, sir ; the son comes before the daughters, and 
 the daughters before the brothers of the prince." 
 
 " You said the government of England was a lim 
 ited monarchy. Who limits it? What is it limited 
 by ? " asked Mr. Mapps. 
 
 " Limited by the people, who have, for hundreds of 
 years, been taking away from the king some of his 
 powers," replied Terrill. " They compelled the sover 
 eign to give them their rights."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. *Jl 
 
 "Limited by what?" 
 
 " By the constitution," answered several. 
 
 " We have the constitution of the United States in 
 our library. Is the British constitution there? " 
 
 " I never saw it," said a student, after a long silence. 
 
 " Then probably it is not there," laughed Mr. 
 Mapps. " The British constitution is not a written 
 document, like that of the United States. It is very 
 much like the common law, which consists of certain 
 well-established principles, rather than a written code. 
 In a court of justice it is sometimes difficult to deter 
 mine exactly what the law is. The legal gentlemen 
 cite the decisions made by judges which have a bear 
 ing on the case. The British constitution is scat 
 tered through the history of the country, recorded in 
 the legal decisions of the high courts, or existing in 
 the established customs of the realm. For example, 
 Charles I. claimed the right to tax his subjects to pro 
 cure ships for his service, whenever he should think 
 proper to do so. The people resisted the imposition, 
 John Hampden foremost, and though not immediately 
 successful, this and other arbitrary acts of the king 
 finally cost him his life, and the principle was estab 
 lished that the sovereign could not tax the people with 
 out their consent. If Queen Victoria wants money of 
 the people, Parliament, consisting of their representa 
 tives, must vote it. Who elect members of Parlia 
 ment?" 
 
 " The people." 
 
 "All of them?" 
 
 " Everybody can't vote, as in the United States." 
 
 " The privilege of voting has been frequently ex-
 
 ^2 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 tended, and the basis of representation equalized ; but 
 it does not even yet come up to the American idea of 
 universal suffrage. In England there have always been 
 at least two political parties the Tories or conserva 
 tives, who represent old ideas, favor existing forms, 
 and the privileges of the crown and the nobility ; and 
 the Whig, Liberal, or Radical party, which has favored 
 progress, enlarged suffrage, and generally the rights of 
 the people as distinguished from the nobility. Some 
 times one of these parties, and sometimes the other, is 
 in power ; that is, it has a majority in the House of 
 Commons, whose members are elected by the people. 
 The sovereign is not supposed to belong to either 
 party. If the party in power should be defeated on 
 an important measure in Parliament, the cabinet, whose 
 members carry on the government in the name of the 
 king, and who are his advisers, are generally com 
 pelled to resign their offices. The king then calls in 
 some powerful and influential statesman of the oppo 
 site party, and requests him to form a new govern 
 ment. Of course all these things are ' cut and dried ' 
 beforehand, and the premier, or prime minister, hands 
 in a new list of ' Her Majesty's Chief Officers of State,' 
 and they are duly installed in their positions. Fifteen 
 of these officers are her majesty's advisers, and form 
 the cabinet. The premier is First Lord of the Treas 
 ury, and the other principal officers are the Lord 
 High Chancellor, who is ' keeper of the king's con 
 science,' and nominally at the head of the Judiciary ; 
 of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has charge 
 of the finances of the country ; the Lord President of 
 the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, five Secretaries of 
 State, and others.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 73 
 
 " The dominant party is now in power, having a 
 majority in the House of Commons, and being repre 
 sented by the government. The cabinet officers are 
 required to hold seats in one of the houses of Parlia 
 ment, and the party is in condition to carry forward 
 its measures, until the ministers are overwhelmed by a 
 bad defeat, when they will be compelled to retire. 
 
 " The three estates of the realm are the lords spir 
 itual, the lords temporal, and the commons, the first 
 two forming the House of Lords. The lords spiritual 
 are the archbishops of Canterbury and York, twenty- 
 four English and four Irish bishops. It is now gen 
 erally understood, I think, that the bishops hold their 
 position in the' Lords as territorial barons, rather 
 than as ecclesiastics. Besides being a legislative 
 body, the House of Lords is the highest court of jus 
 tice in the realm, to which an appeal is had from other 
 courts in certain cases ; that is, it may sit as a court, 
 or as a law-making power. 
 
 " The lords temporal are dukes, marquises, earls, 
 viscounts, and barons, their rank being in the order 
 mentioned. They are privileged persons, being en 
 titled by birth or patent to a seat in the House of 
 Lords, and to a trial by their peers, or persons of noble 
 birth, if charged with treason or felony, and are ex 
 empt from arrest in civil cases." 
 
 "What is a lord?" asked one of the students. 
 " You mentioned only dukes, marquises, earls, vis 
 counts, and barons." 
 
 " Lord is a title applied to an earl, and to certain 
 other persons by courtesy. For example, the eldest 
 son of the Duke of Northumberland takes his second 
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 74 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 title, Earl Percy, or Lord Percy ; the carl's son is 
 a viscount ; and the sons of a viscount arc called 
 ' Honorable.' The duke's younger sons are ' Lords ' 
 by courtesy, but they may have no legal right to the 
 title." 
 
 " What is a baronet? " asked another student. " Is 
 it the same as a baron ? " 
 
 " No ; a baron is a peer of the lowest grade in the 
 House of Lords, while a baronet is a commoner, and 
 has the lowest hereditary rank. A knight is an hon 
 orary distinction conferred by the sovereign. Knights 
 and baronets are addressed as ' Sir.' Certain judges 
 are called barons in virtue of their office. 
 
 " One word more, about the church of England, 
 and I shall have finished. The church and state go 
 together, the former being incorporated with the latter, 
 and the sovereign being the head of both. The king 
 dom is divided, for church purposes, into two prov 
 inces, Canterbury and York, each of which is presided 
 over by an archbishop, who has the general super 
 vision of all the dioceses with it. A diocese is com 
 posed of all the churches in the care of a bishop, and 
 the bishop's church is a cathedral, to which. there are 
 also attached a dean and chapter, by whom the bishop 
 is nominally elected. The dean is a kind of assistant 
 to the head of the diocese. Each of the two arch 
 bishops has a cathedral, and performs the duties of a 
 bishop. The Archbishop of Canterbury is Primate 
 of all England, and crowns the sovereign in virtue of 
 his office. His revenues, derived mostly from lands, 
 amount to fifteen thousand pounds a year. The Arch 
 bishop of York has ten thousand. The Bishop of
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 75 
 
 London also has ten thousand pounds a year, which is 
 double the salary of the President of the United States. 
 All the other bishops have from four to eight thousand 
 pounds a year, while some of the clergymen have but 
 fifty pounds, though the average is about two hundred 
 and eighty pounds. The right to appoint the parish 
 clergyman, called a benefice or ' living,' often rests 
 with the nobility, who give them to their friends. 
 
 " I will not detain you longer, young gentlemen, 
 though there are many other topics which need atten 
 tion." 
 
 The professor retired, and the students were dis 
 missed.
 
 76 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 A GLANCE AT LIVERPOOL. 
 
 WHEN the lecture was finished, Mr. Lowington 
 invited Paul to his state-room for a further 
 conference on business affairs. 
 
 " Captain Kendall," said he, " one matter has been 
 overlooked in the appointment of your officers. You i 
 have no purser." 
 
 " I did not suppose I needed any," replied the young 
 commander. 
 
 " When you give your crew liberty, they will want 
 a little money, and it will not always be convenient to 
 pipe them on board the ship to supply this need. I 
 cannot now appoint a purser for you without deranging 
 all the offices. You will therefore require your third 
 and fourth masters to keep your accounts and pay the 
 allowances. This must be done under your personal 
 supervision, and you will approve each order before it 
 is paid, precisely as I have done." 
 
 " But am I to keep the money on board the Jose 
 phine?" asked Paul. 
 
 " Certainly ; a vessel should never be without the 
 means of paying her way. When you go on your 
 cruise, your steward must buy fresh provisions, if you 
 go into port ; you must pay the pilots, and you might
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 77 
 
 need repairs. In your state-room, under your berth, 
 doubtless you found an iron chest, like a safe. Here 
 is the key of it." 
 
 Paul took the key, and felt that his responsibilities 
 were increasing. 
 
 " I shall give you one hundred and fifty pounds, one 
 hundred in gold, and the rest in small silver, suitable 
 for paying the allowances. Dr. Winstock and Mr. 
 Mapps will go on board with you, and you can make 
 your arrangements immediately for the parties who 
 are to go on shore." 
 
 " How much shall I pay the students for this after 
 noon ? " asked Paul, after he had received the money. 
 
 " Two shillings each," replied Mr. Lowington. 
 
 They went on deck, and the officers and crew of 
 the Josephine returned to the vessel, accompanied by 
 Mr. Mapps and Dr. Winstock. The boats were made 
 fast to the swinging boom, as the ship's company were 
 so soon to go on shore in them. Paul and the surgeon 
 had freely discussed the liberty question, and though 
 the doctor had some grave doubts, the young captain 
 decided to try the experiment of giving the students 
 entire freedom on shore. He believed that the surest 
 road to a boy's confidence is to trust him until he has 
 proved himself unworthy to be trusted. All hands 
 were piped to muster, and Paul explained the pro 
 gramme for the afternoon. He begged of them to be 
 have like gentlemen, to refrain from drinking ale or 
 any other strong beverages, and to be at the landing- 
 place precisely at six o'clock. 
 
 The students were astonished at the degree of free 
 dom granted, and when Captain Kendall finished his 
 7*
 
 78 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 speech, three hearty cheers were given. Paul then 
 announced that two shillings would be paid to each 
 student, and they were required to march through the 
 cabin and present their orders. As soon as the}' were 
 dismissed, they went to the steerage, wrote their orders, 
 and by this time the third and fourth masters were pre 
 pared to pay them. Captain Kendall sat at one table, 
 and, with becoming gravity and dignity, affixed his 
 initials to each paper as it was presented to him. The* 
 acting pursers paid the order, indorsed it on the re 
 ceipt which Mr. Lowington had given to each boy, 
 handed in with the order. The business proceeded as 
 regularly as on board the ship, and the students passed 
 up the companion-way to the deck, as soon as they 
 received their allowance. 
 
 Strange as it may seem, there was no grumbling at 
 the smallness of the amount. The boys all appeared to 
 be in excellent humor, and to appreciate the privileges 
 which had been granted to them. It was understood 
 that, so far as liberty was concerned, they were faring 
 better than their companions on board of the ship. 
 The Josephine was intended for an experiment in self- 
 government, and if any of her crew could not take 
 care of themselves, could not be trusted, they were to 
 go back to the Young America, where the strict su 
 pervision to which they had been accustomed was still 
 retained, and where the boys were not to be permitted 
 to go ashore without some one to take charge of them. 
 
 " I don't exactly understand this business," said Lynch 
 to his friend Grossbeck, as they walked forward. 
 
 " What don't you understand?" asked the other. 
 
 " We are to go on shore, as the nobs themselves do, 
 with no one to watch us."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 79 
 
 " That's so ; but I shouldn't wonder if it was a 
 trap." 
 
 " A trap ! " exclaimed Lynch. 
 
 " Don't you suppose Lowington wants to get all the 
 chaplain's lambs into this vessel ? " inquired Gross- 
 beck. 
 
 " If he did, why didn't he' send them on board?" 
 
 " Because it wouldn't look fair ; but I can tell you 
 f this: if a fellow drinks a little beer, or overstays his 
 time, you will find he will get his walking ticket." 
 
 " Then we had better keep our eyes wide open. 
 The fellows say the captain has no orders from the 
 principal, but does everything just as he pleases." 
 
 " I don't know anything about that, but I do know 
 we are having plenty of liberty here, and r for one, I 
 don't want to be sent back to the ship." 
 
 u I'm rather sorry we made that half sovereign 
 apiece last night." 
 
 "Why?" 
 
 " I'm afraid it will come out. I'm going to leave 
 mine on board hide it somewhere." 
 
 "What for?" 
 
 " Then I shall not be tempted to spend it, and get 
 into a scrape," replied the prudent Lynch, who was 
 going to be good for the loaves and fishes, rather than 
 because it was right to be good. 
 
 Grossbeck concluded to be equally cautious. They 
 went below ; they concealed the gold in the sole of 
 one of their sea boots, which had begun to rip open. 
 
 " What about McLeish?" asked Lynch, after they 
 had disposed of their ill-gotten gain. 
 
 " Nothing at all," replied Grossbeck. " Let him 
 stay where he is,"
 
 So RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " He will blow on us if we don't do something for 
 him." 
 
 "What can we do?" asked Grossbeck. 
 
 " If we could contrive some way to get him off, it 
 would be a good thing for all hands, and get us out of 
 the scrape." 
 
 " I don't see any way to get him off." 
 
 " We can take him out of the brig any time we 
 like. When will our anchor watch come round 
 again." 
 
 Grossbeck made a calculation, and found their turn 
 would come on Monday morning, from two till four. 
 
 " Then we can bargain with some shore boat to 
 come alongside and take him off at three o'clock, say," 
 added Lynch. 
 
 " But the officer will not let a boat come alongside." 
 
 " We can manage it somehow." 
 
 " Who will pay the boatman? " 
 
 " McLeish, of course." 
 
 " I don't know about it." 
 
 " I tell you we must get rid of McLeish, for our 
 own sake. He will blow on us tell the captain that 
 we let him out, and took his money. I tell you we 
 are in a bad scrape. MeLeish is a mean pup, and he 
 would betray his best friend." 
 
 " I'll leave it to you, Lynch ; it is your affair, not 
 mine ; but I will help." 
 
 Lynch went below, and wrote on a piece of paper 
 the question, " Will you pay one pound to the boat 
 man that takes you off?" McLeish was standing at 
 the grated door of the brig, and the writer slyly handed 
 the paper to him. In a moment it was returned with
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 8 1 
 
 an affirmative answer written upon it. The bout- 
 swain's pipe to dinner prevented him from saying 
 anything more to Grossbeck. Having done a little 
 wrong in meddling with the prisoner, he felt com 
 pelled to do more in order to save himself from the 
 consequence ; a frequent experience with the evil 
 doer, which ought to convince the tempted that the 
 first step in error is the most dangerous one. 
 
 After dinner, the boats were manned, and with 
 Gage the carpenter, and Cleats the boatswain, who 
 were to act as boat-keepers, the ship's company em 
 barked. The Mersey, between Liverpool and Birken- 
 head, is about a mile in width, and being open to the 
 sea, the water is frequently quite rough. The ship 
 and her consort were moored above Birkenhead, where 
 they were partially sheltered. There are no wharves 
 along the river, as in New York or Boston, and all 
 ships taking in or discharging cargo go into the docks. 
 The highest tides in the Mersey rise thirty-three feet, 
 and the lowest twenty, so that, if the shores of the 
 river were less exposed to the violence of the sea, it 
 would not be practicable for vessels to lie at wharves. 
 
 The boats pulled for the George's Landing Stage, 
 which is the starting-place for no less than seven fer 
 ries running to Birkenhead, The stage is a floating 
 structure, like an American ferry-drop, rising and fall 
 ing with the tide. It is, in fact, an immense box, 
 made water-tight, and resting level on the water. It 
 is reached by a kind of bridge, the descent of which 
 at low tide is quite steep. This and two other 
 stages like it, are the only convenient landing-places 
 in front of the city.
 
 82 HED CROSS, OR 
 
 Most of the ocean steamers plying between England 
 and the United States have Liverpool for their eastern 
 terminus. While in port these ships lie in the docks ; 
 but when ready to sail they are anchored in the river, 
 and the passengers are taken off to them in tugs from 
 the George's Landing Stage. On their arrival also, 
 they moor in the stream, and their passengers are 
 landed by the same means. Though the docks are 
 the pride of Liverpool, New York is certainly more 
 convenient for the landing of passengers. 
 
 The Josephine's boats, after a rough pull of a mile 
 and a half, reached the Landing Stage, where they were 
 soon joined by those of the Young America. The 
 crew of the latter had been divided into parties, and 
 each was in charge of one of the faculty ; but the offi 
 cers were permitted to go where they pleased, without 
 any supervision. The boats were carefully secured 
 between the Landing Stage and the shore, and left in 
 charge of the adult forward officers. In a few mo 
 ments the students had scattered in every direction. 
 
 Captain Kendall and the doctor walked off together, 
 as by mutual consent, for they were much attached to 
 each other, and were in company whenever their re 
 spective duties permitted. Paul, for the time, laid 
 aside his cares and responsibilities. He was a keen 
 observer, and was anxious to obtain information. The 
 surgeon had been a great traveller, and was competent 
 to explain the wonders of most of the European cities. 
 
 "Well, Paul, where are you going?" asked the 
 doctor. 
 
 " I don't know, sir. I want to see the city," replied 
 the captain.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 83 
 
 " There is not much to see except the docks, and 
 these are on both sides of us. Here is George's Dock 
 in front of us." 
 
 " It doesn't seem to be anything but a wharf," added 
 Paul, who had heard so much of the Liverpool docks 
 that he had expected to see something wonderful. 
 
 "It is not a wharf. You perceive that it is sur 
 rounded by warehouses, and the tide does not rise 
 and fall within the enclosure. A dock is an immense 
 excavation or walled space, with gates, like those 
 opening to the locks of a canal, through which ships 
 are admitted. The gates are opened, of course, only 
 at high tide. Those gates, you see, swing into the 
 dock, and all of them are constructed on the same 
 principle. Now, Paul, you are a philosopher : can 
 you tell me why they never swing the gates out 
 ward?" asked Dr. Winstock, laughing. 
 
 " That's a plain case, I think," answered the stu 
 dent. " If they swung outward, the pressure of the 
 water would open them when the tide goes down on 
 the outside." 
 
 "Just so ; and as soon as the water in the river goes 
 down, the pressure of that in the dock keeps the gates 
 shut." 
 
 " But a vessel can leave the port only at high tide." 
 
 " She can come out of the dock only at high tide." 
 
 " Do the coast steamers which run to Dublin, Cork, 
 Belfast, and Bristol go into these docks?" 
 
 " Not into the closed ones. There are two kinds of 
 docks, wet and dry, the latter being used only for re 
 pairing ships. And there are two kinds of wet docks, 
 those with gates and those without, the latter being
 
 84 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 generally called basins. Half a mile below here is 
 Clarence Basin, often called a dock, from which most 
 of the coast steamers arrive and depart," said the doc 
 tor, as they crossed the bridge over the opening of the 
 dock. 
 
 " Hallo ! " exclaimed Paul. " This looks natural." 
 
 "What?" 
 
 " Why, here is a horse railroad." 
 
 " Yes, and that, I think, is the only one you will find 
 in the United Kingdom. It runs along the docks, but 
 is not permitted to extend up into the streets." 
 
 " These benighted Britishers are a hundred years 
 behind the times. Of course they know what horse 
 railroads are, for here is one." 
 
 " They are prejudiced against them. A tram-way, 
 as they call it, was laid down in London, but it was 
 deemed so great an innovation that it was removed. 
 If you please, we will take a cab and ride down to the 
 Canada and Huskisson Docks, which are the largest 
 in the city. The latter has just been completed. 
 Here is a Hansom ! " 
 
 "A what?" asked Paul. 
 
 " A Hansom cab ; I forgot that you had never been 
 here. These vehicles are very convenient, and cheap, 
 judged by our American standard of prices." 
 
 The doctor beckoned to the driver of the Hansom, 
 which is peculiarly an English institution. The body 
 of the vehicle is something like an American two- 
 wheeled chaise, the bottom of which rests within 
 about a foot of the pavement, so that the passenger 
 takes but a single step to get into it. The driver is 
 perched in a little seat attached to the back part of
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 85 
 
 the top, the reins passing from the horse over the cov 
 ering. A couple of wooden 'doors, curved to accom 
 modate the legs of the occupants, close over him like 
 a boot, and a glass partition can be shut to meet it, 
 so as to protect them from the weather. We have 
 seen one of these vehicles in New York. 
 
 Paul followed the doctor into the Hansom, which 
 is named after its inventor, and when it started he was 
 disturbed by an unpleasant apprehension that the thing 
 would tip up, and throw the horse over his head ; but 
 no such calamity occurred, and after a drive of two 
 miles, the passengers were landed on the bridge be 
 tween the Canada and Huskisson Docks. The familiar 
 steamers of the Cunard line, which Paul had seen in 
 Boston and New York, were lying here. 
 
 " This is the Huskisson Dock," said Dr. Winstock, 
 pointing to the left of the bridge. " It was built to 
 accommodate these large ocean steamers. It has a 
 water area of fourteen acres, and about two thirds of 
 a mile of quay on its sides. Its widest entrance is 
 eighty feet. No fires are allowed on board of any 
 vessels in the docks, and ships are obliged to board 
 their men on shore while they are in port. This 
 is to prevent the danger of a fire among the ships 
 and warehouses." 
 
 The aggregate area of the wet docks of Liverpool 
 is one hundred and seventy-four acres, surrounded by 
 fourteen miles of quays. Nearly all these docks open 
 from basins, in which the tide rises and falls as in the 
 river. 
 
 Liverpool is of modern growth and importance, for 
 two hundred years ago only fifteen ships belonged to 
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 86 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 the port. It was once largely engaged in the African 
 slave trade, and one hundred years ago more than 
 half this trade was carried on by Liverpool mer 
 chants. It has now an immense trade in cotton and 
 cotton goods, the great bulk of the raw material being 
 received at this port, from which also the greater por 
 tion of the manufactured goods are exported to all 
 parts of the world. Nearly one third of its tonnage 
 is employed in the trade with the United States. 
 
 "Now, Paul, if you have seen enough of the docks, 
 we will ride up into the city," continued the doctor, 
 after they had walked by the fort, whose frowning bat 
 teries command the river, to the gates of the Canada 
 Dock. 
 
 " I would like to get an idea of the city," replied 
 Paul. 
 
 " Drive through Great Howard Street to the Ex 
 change," added the surgeon, as he seated himself in 
 the Hansom. 
 
 " Do you know the streets, doctor?" asked Paul. 
 
 " Certainly ; I have spent two or three weeks in 
 Liverpool at different times while waiting for steam 
 ers." 
 
 " I shouldn't think you could remember them, you 
 have been to so many places." 
 
 " You have been to a dozen different cities in 
 Europe ; don't you remember the names of the 
 streets ? " 
 
 " But you have been to a hundred or more." 
 
 " That makes no difference ; the mind has its pic 
 ture of each one distinctly drawn. This street runs 
 parallel with the river. Next beyond it is Vauxhall
 
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 Road, and beyond that Scotland Road. In the centre 
 of the city the streets run in all directions, and it would 
 bother a Philadelphian, accustomed to straight streets, 
 and a square plan, to find his way. Most of the 
 streets diverge from the square on which are situated 
 the Lime Street railway station, where you may take 
 the train for London, St. George's Hall, St. John's 
 Church, and the Washington Hotel, where I always 
 stay when here, because I like its name, as well as be 
 cause it is a good house. From this point Renshaw 
 Street runs to the north-east ; Whitechapel and Para 
 dise Streets to the east ; Dale Street to the south : 
 Scotland Road to the west, and London Road to the 
 north. It is not easy to find your way about Liver 
 pool." 
 
 " It looks like the meanest part of New York or 
 Boston here." 
 
 " You are in a dirty part of the city now. Liver 
 pool is more like an American city than any other 
 European town I know of like Boston in the irreg 
 ularity of its streets. There, it is said, the streets 
 follow the paths made by Mr. Blackstone's cows ; 
 and Liverpool may have been laid out on the same 
 plan." 
 
 The Hansom soon left its passengers at the Ex 
 change, and the vehicle was dismissed, the travellers 
 preferring to walk for a time. They passed through 
 the building, which is very much like similar edifices, 
 though it is on a very extensive plan, forming three 
 sides of a square around the Town Hall. The open 
 space between the two buildings contains a statue of 
 Nelson, and it is occupied by those busy men who
 
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 throng Wall and State Streets in the busy hour of 
 the day. The Town Hall is a handsome building 
 surmounted by a dome, on which rests a statue of 
 Britannia. 
 
 " Why don't they call this the City Hall, as we do 
 in America?" asked Paul, as they entered the build 
 ing. 
 
 " It is not the custom, I suppose ; but the term city 
 has not always been used in England as in our coun 
 try. It was applied to a place in which the bishop's 
 cathedral was located, and from which the diocese 
 derived its name. Chester was a city, because it was 
 the residence of the bishop ; while Liverpool was not 
 a city, because it had no bishop. In theory, the dis 
 tinction holds good to the present time, I suppose ; 
 if so, this is a town hall, and not a city hall." 
 
 " It's a queer town hall," added Paul, as they as 
 cended the broad staircase adorned with pictures. 
 " It looks more like a dwelling-house than a place 
 where the public business is transacted." 
 
 " You will find it is intended for other purposes than 
 mere business affairs," added the doctor, as he engaged 
 an attendant to show the rooms. 
 
 They were conducted through a saloon, two draw 
 ing-rooms, two ball-rooms, a banqueting-room, and a 
 refectory, all of them fitted up and furnished in the 
 most elegant and costly manner. 
 
 " I think the Lord Mayor has a good time here," 
 said Paul when the attendant had been dismissed. 
 
 " He holds receptions, gives dinners, and has an 
 occasional ball in these rooms. He is obliged to do 
 these things to maintain the dignity of his position,
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 89 
 
 and to do credit to the hospitality of the city. But, 
 Paul, you must not call him Lord Mayor. He is 
 simply a mayor, and is addressed as his ' worship,' " 
 replied Dr. Winstock. 
 
 " I thought the mayors of all the large cities were 
 lords. The mayor of Dublin was certainly called 
 Lord Mayor." 
 
 " That is very true. The chief municipal officer 
 of London and Dublin are Lord Mayors by special 
 royal grant, but the mayors of York and Edinburgh 
 also have this prefix. No other city is entitled to this 
 distinction. There are a great many little things to 
 learn," continued the doctor, as they walked through 
 Castle Street to the Custom House. 
 
 " I know there are. One cannot pass through 
 the streets without being perplexed with something 
 he does not understand. There's a sign, ' Wine and 
 Spirit Vault.' " 
 
 " That's merely a rum-shop. The keeper is licensed 
 to sell liquor, and he makes a great spread. In Lon 
 don and other cities there are immense wine and ale 
 vaults, containing millions of pounds' worth of beer 
 or spirits. These men ape the large establishments, 
 and call their cellars ' vaults.' Very likely some of 
 them are entitled to the name." 
 
 "Just now I saw the sign, 'J. Grubbie, Hatter to 
 H. R. H. the Prince of Wales.' I have seen a dozen 
 such signs in Dublin, Edinburgh, and Glasgow." 
 
 " That is another weakness for high-sounding names. 
 
 It is possible J. Grubbie made a hat for H. R. H. ; but 
 
 it is more probably that J. G. had some friend, who 
 
 had another friend, whose intimate friend was a valet. 
 
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 90 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 of H. R. H. ; and when H. R. H. was in particularly 
 good humor, he was asked to write a line for J. Grub- 
 bie, hatter ; but in that case, Grubbie would probably 
 put on his sign, ' By special Appointment, Hatter to 
 H. R. H.' If the Prince of Wales happens to want a 
 pair of boots while in Liverpool, the lucky tradesman 
 who has the good fortune to sell him a pair, immedi 
 ately has a new sign, and announces to the public that 
 he is bootmaker to H. R. H. Of course it is all a 
 humbug, and when I wish to purchase anything, I 
 avoid these signs, which are as thick as snow-flakes 
 at Christmas in all the principal cities in the kingdom. 
 Here is the Custom House. It is a magnificent build 
 ing, both in size and in its architectural proportions." 
 
 A glance at the exterior was enough to satisfy Paul, 
 and they walked up to St. George's Hall, passing St. 
 John's Church, an ancient structure, the slope of the 
 hill by the side of it being a cemetery in which there 
 is a multitude of antiquated tombstones, and slabs 
 lying flat on the ground. St. George's Hall is the 
 finest public building in Liverpool. Its architecture 
 is Corinthian, with columns forty-five feet high. 
 It contains two large rooms used for the Assizes 
 Court, and a great hall, one hundred and sixty-one 
 feet long by seventy-five in width, and the same in 
 height, in which concerts and public meetings are 
 held. It cost nearly two hundred thousand pounds. 
 
 A ride in the omnibus to the Necropolis, a noted 
 cemetery, and the Zoological Gardens, which are justly 
 celebrated, completed the excursion for the day, and 
 before six o'clock Paul reached the Landing Stage, 
 having seen all he cared to see of Liverpool, though
 
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 to one who had not all Europe before him, there 
 was enough of sight-seeing to keep him busy for a 
 week. 
 
 "You have an idea of the place. Paul that's all," 
 said Dr. Winstock, as they walked down the bridge 
 to the Stage. " It is a very enterprising and liberal 
 city, abounding in charitable and reformatory institu 
 tions. On the whole, it is the liveliest city in the 
 United Kingdom. 
 
 " That's because it is so much in contact with, the 
 United States," laughed Paul, as he took from his 
 pocket the "Mercury" which he had bought in the 
 street. " What" queer expressions they use here ! 
 ' Left-off clothing,' instead of old clothes, or second 
 hand clothes." 
 
 " Our expressions are as odd to them as theirs are 
 to us," replied the doctor. 
 
 " To be sold ' by private treaty,' " added Paul, 
 glancing at the advertisements, " instead of private 
 sale. ' Wanted, a lady to teach good music.' Of 
 course they wouldn't want her to teach bad music ; 
 ' a shopkeeper, doing a ready-money trade,' instead 
 of a cash business. ' To publicans ' those are 
 men that keep ale-vaults. ' Wanted, a servant of 
 all work; wages 10' less than a dollar a week. 
 'A certificated school-teacher, aged 31, declining 
 school keeping, wants a situation as clerk.' ' Want 
 ed a situation to look after a horse and carriage.' 
 Hope he'll find them when he has found the situa 
 tion." 
 
 " Paul, there are a couple of your hopefuls on the 
 other side of the Stage," said the doctor. " I was
 
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 afraid they would give you trouble, but they are on 
 time." 
 
 The young commander looked, and saw Lynch and 
 Grossbeck ; but he did not know that they had just 
 made a bargain with a boatman to go off to the Jose 
 phine at three o'clock on Monday morning. Within 
 a few minutes of the appointed time, the boats of 
 both vessels left the Stage. .
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 BLUE LIGHTS ON THE MERSEY. 
 
 SO far as Captain Kendall could judge after his 
 ship's company were all on board, not one of 
 them had abused his liberty. All of them had been 
 at the Landing Stage within a few moments of the 
 appointed time ; and though there was no " smelling 
 committee " appointed to investigate the matter, the 
 fumes of beer or other interdicted beverages were not 
 noticed even in the presence of those who were known 
 to have no conscientious scruples in regard to the use 
 of intoxicating drinks. The experiment appeared to 
 be entirely satisfactory. Paul and the doctor had seen 
 some of the crew in various parts of the city, but 
 they were conducting themselves with perfect pro 
 priety. 
 
 Dr. Winstock and Mr. Mapps accepted an invita 
 tion to tea on board the Josephine, and were afterwards 
 sent on board of the ship in the captain's gig. The 
 anchor watch was kept during the night, and the next 
 day, being Sunday, all hands, when the signal appeared 
 on the ship, attended divine service on board of her. 
 
 On Monday morning, Lynch and Grossbeck had the 
 anchor watch according to their calculations ; but the 
 first master was officer of the deck, instead of the third
 
 94 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 lieutenant, the turns of the officers not corresponding 
 with those of the crew. The conspirators were sorry 
 for this change, as they knew the habits of Mr. Rob 
 inson, and had yet to learn those of Mr. Groom. If 
 he should be disposed to visit the forecastle often, or 
 not care to take his lunch, it would be difficult, if not 
 impossible, to get McLeish out of the vessel. 
 
 Grossbeck had deposited the carpenter's screw-driver 
 in a place where it would be available for use, and 
 before his watch was called, had released the prisoner 
 and restored the lock to the door. Everything there 
 fore was in a forward state of preparation for the 
 carrying out of their plan. McLeish was in Lynch's 
 berth when the watch was called. 
 
 " Do you suppose your boatman will come? " asked 
 Grossbeck, when they had seated themselves on the 
 heel of the bowsprit. 
 
 " Of course he will. It isn't every night that he 
 gets a chance to make a sovereign, which is about the 
 wages of a whole week to one of those fellows. He 
 will be here, you may depend upon it," replied Lynch, 
 confidently. 
 
 " I wish we were well out of the scrape. I'm 
 afraid we shall be caught." 
 
 " I know there is danger, but I think it is safer for 
 us to get him out of the vessel than to let him stay." 
 
 " Suppose we should be caught? " 
 
 " Then we must make the best of it, and go bac 
 to the ship when we are sent," replied Lynch. 
 
 " I don't like that idea. Saturday afternoon we 
 went ashore without any one to watch us. All the 
 fellows in the ship, except the officers, have a professor
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 95 
 
 to take care of them. I don't want to leave the 
 Josephine." 
 
 " Nor I ; but we must take our chance now," added 
 Lynch. " If I had known as much as I know now, I 
 wouldn't have had anything to do with McLeish. If 
 we don't get him off he will ruin us. We must run 
 for luck now." 
 
 The first master paced the quarter-deck, walked for 
 ward to the waist occasionally, and finally went below, 
 probably to take his lunch. The signal was given for 
 McLeish to come on deck, and he immediately made 
 his appearance. Before Groom returned, he had been 
 stowed away in the head, ready to embark in the 
 boat as soon as it came alongside. The night was 
 dark enough to favor the enterprise, and the officer 
 of the deck, though vigilant enough for all practical 
 purposes, did not appear to trouble himself with affairs 
 forward of the foremast. At five bells he made his 
 round through the steerage. 
 
 It is sometimes the case that those who make the 
 least fuss and parade about doing their duty, perform 
 it the most thoroughly ; and those who appear to have 
 the least knowledge of what is " going on," have the 
 most. Groom was a very quiet and unpretending 
 officer, but he understood his duty thoroughly, and 
 performed it faithfully. Instead of walking round 
 the steerage, in the semi-darkness of the place, as 
 most of the officers did, he took the lantern from the 
 hook near the fore-hatch, and glanced into every berth 
 to assure himself that its occupant was there. 
 
 When he came to the brig, he held the lantern up 
 to the grated door, and looked in. He did not see the
 
 96 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 prisoner, for the simple reason that he was not there. 
 He placed himself in such a position that he could 
 observe the berth-sack on the floor, where McLeish 
 ought to have been asleep ; but he was not on his bed. 
 Groom was astonished rather than alarmed, and he 
 went to the captain's state-room, where the key was 
 always kept, to obtain it." 
 
 "What's the matter, Mr. Groom?" asked Paul, as 
 the master entered his room. 
 
 " I don't know that anything is the matter," replied 
 the officer of the watch, " but I would like the key of 
 the brig. I have looked in through the door, and I 
 don't see anything of McLeish." 
 
 " Has he got out?" asked the captain, starting up 
 in his bed. 
 
 " I don't know that he has : I want to ascertain." 
 
 Paul gave him the key, and anxiously awaited his 
 report. Groom returned to the brig, unlocked it, and 
 went in.' The prison was certainly empty ; but he 
 had found the door locked, and no opening by which 
 he could have escaped was visible. He returned to 
 the captain's state-room, and informed Paul of the 
 result of his investigation. 
 
 "Escaped has he?" demanded Paul, filled with 
 anxiety at this unfortunate circumstance. 
 
 " He certainly is not in the brig," replied Groom. 
 " Whether he has left the schooner or not, I don't 
 know." 
 
 " He was safe at eight o'clock, when the steward 
 put his berth-sack in the brig," added the perplexed 
 captain. " How did he get out? " 
 
 '' That is more than I can tell. The door was
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 97 
 
 locked all right, and there is no hole or opening by 
 which he could have crawled out," answered Groom. 
 
 " And the key has not been out of my room since 
 the steward returned it to me. Call Marty n, Robin 
 son, and Humphreys." 
 
 The three officers who had been in charge of the 
 deck since eight o'clock were called to the captain's 
 state-room, and questioned. They knew nothing of 
 the prisoner, and each of them was sure that no boat 
 had left the schooner during his watch. 
 
 " Who are in the watch now ? " asked Paul. 
 
 " Lynch and Grossbeck," replied the first master. 
 
 " If McLeish has left the vessel, we can do nothing 
 till morning. Keep a sharp lookout, Mr. Groom, and 
 if anything occurs, call me," said Paul, as he dismissed 
 all the officers. 
 
 But the captain did not go to sleep again that night. 
 He was anxious and disturbed. He did not believe 
 that McLeish had left the Josephine, and he did not 
 wish to muster all hands at that hour ; but he intended, 
 in the morning, to make a thorough search in every 
 part of the vessel, for he had come to the conclusion 
 that the prisoner was secreted in some convenient 
 place, where he could leave during the day. The 
 officer of the watch returned to the deck. He had 
 been absent about twenty minutes, and the time for 
 the appearance of the boat was near at hand. 
 
 Groom paced the deck athwartships. He heard 
 the dip of a pair of sculls ahead. He appeared to 
 take no notice of the circumstance, but in his own 
 mind he connected it with the escape of McLeish. 
 As soon as he had satisfied himself that the boat
 
 98 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 was approaching the schooner, he went below and 
 informed the captain. 
 
 "A boat appears to be coming to the schooner, 
 but I don't know that it is," he added to his report, in 
 explanation. 
 
 " Return to the deck, Mr. Groom : let things take 
 their course ; and remember that it is quite as impor 
 tant to ascertain who helped McLeish, as it is to pre 
 vent the prisoner's escape." 
 
 When Groom had gone on deck, Paul called the 
 first lieutenant, who was directed quietly to wake the 
 crew of the first cutter, and have them ready for 
 immediate service, all of which was done before six 
 bells struck. The officer of the deck, without seem 
 ing to notice anything, kept his eyes and his ears 
 wide open. 
 
 By this time, Lynch and Grossbeck were congratu 
 lating themselves upon the success of their enterprise. 
 The officer of the watch was very accommodating m 
 spending so much of his time below, for on the top 
 gallant forecastle they obtained no hint of what was 
 taking place in the cabin and steerage. They saw the 
 boat, which had pulled to a position ahead of the 
 Josephine, and was now drifting with the tide to 
 wards her. 
 
 li Now, McLeish, you are all right," said Lynch, as 
 he discovered the boat in the gloom of the night. 
 
 " Ay, that I am," replied the culprit, jubilantly. 
 " If ye hear any one inquiring for me in the morning, 
 give then? my regards, and say I'll see them in the 
 jtumn." 
 
 ' Don't make a fool of yourself, when you get into
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 99 
 
 the boat. Lie down in the bottom, and keep still," 
 added Grossbeck. 
 
 '" I'll just shout for joy, when I'm clear of the 
 vessel." 
 
 " If you do, you will certainly be brought back," 
 said Lynch. 
 
 " No fear of that if I once get into the boat." 
 
 " Hush ! here comes the officer," whispered Gross- 
 beck, as Groom walked forward. 
 
 " What boat is that? " asked the officer, halting on 
 the forecastle. 
 
 " I don't know, sir," replied Grossbeck. 
 
 " Boat ahoy ! " shouted Lynch, who had instructed 
 the boajtman what to say when he hailed him, as he 
 intended to do if his approach was observed by the 
 officer of the watch. 
 
 " On board the schooner," replied the boatman. 
 
 " What do you want? " demanded Lynch. 
 
 " Did you happen to see a boat adrift any time 
 within the night?" asked the man. 
 
 " We have not." 
 
 " Our long-boat broke adrift, and I'm looking for 
 her. I didn't know but you might have picked her up." 
 
 " We haven't seen her," answered Lynch. 
 
 All this seemed so natural, that Groom, though 
 on the lookout for something wrong, did not suspect 
 anything. The boatman had run under the bowsprit 
 of the Josephine, and was holding on at the bobstay. 
 He then explained that he belonged to a ship lying 
 above, and was keeping anchor watch. He had 
 missed the boat, and was looking it up. Groom was 
 satisfied, and walked aft again.
 
 1OO RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Now drop down into the boat, McLeish, and keep 
 still," whispered Lynch. 
 
 " Wait a minute," interposed the boatman. " If 
 you happen to have the sovereign about you, I'll take 
 that first." 
 
 McLeish had transferred the balance of his funds 
 from his stockings to his pocket. He produced the 
 money, and handed it to the cautious boatman. 
 
 " Don't make a noise," said Lynch, and the culprit 
 'clumsily descended to the boat. 
 
 " It's little I care for the noise now," replied 
 McLeish. 
 
 " But you will, get us into a scrape," protested 
 Grossbeck, in an energetic whisper. 
 
 " If I do, I just paid you for it ; and it was mean 
 of you to take a sovereign for halping a fallow in dis- 
 trass." 
 
 " Lie down, McLeish ! " called Lynch, as loud as 
 he dared to speak. 
 
 " I'll no lie down," replied the mulish deserter. 
 " Push .oft", boatman ; I'm out of their clutches now : 
 but I'd like to get my hand on the windpipe of that 
 Terrill." 
 
 The boatman pushed off, and, taking his cue from 
 his passenger, used no further precautions to conceal 
 his movements. Before he could bring his oars to 
 bear, the tide had set his boat away from the bow of 
 the schooner, and it was drifting alongside of her. 
 Groom heard the voices in her, and rushed to the 
 railing. He saw that it contained two persons now. 
 
 " Boat ahoy ! " he shouted. 
 
 " Shut your mouth, you sixpenny nob ! " replied
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. IOI 
 
 McLeish, in tones so loud that Lynch and Grossbeck 
 were appalled and terrified at the exposure. 
 
 Groom did not wait to hear any more, but rushing 
 to the companion-way, he called for help. 
 
 " All the first cutter's crew on deck ! " said Terrill, 
 hastening to the steerage, where those who had been 
 called were in readiness for the summons. 
 
 In an instant they tumbled up the hatch, and grasped 
 the fall-ropes of their boat. Terrill appeared at the 
 same time. It was now the turn of the conspirators 
 on the forecastle to be astonished. 
 
 "Where's the boat, Mr. Groom?" demanded the 
 first lieutenant. 
 
 " She went off towards Birkenhead," replied the 
 officer of the watch. 
 
 " First cutter ready, sir ! " reported the coxswain of 
 the boat to the first lieutenant. 
 
 Terrill leaped into the stern-sheets of the cutter ; 
 the orders to shove off and let fall were rapidly given ; 
 the crew bent to their oars, and the boat disappeared 
 in the gloom from the view of those on deck. 
 
 Captain -Kendnll came on deck before the departure 
 of the first cutter, and immediately ordered Martyn to 
 call all hands. In a brief period, every officer and 
 seaman was on deck. 
 
 " Clear away the gig ! " shouted the second lieu 
 tenant, by the captain's order. 
 
 Pelham was sent away in this boat, with directions 
 to pull towards Birkenhead. 
 
 " Clear away the second and third cutters ! " con 
 tinued the captain. " Mr. Robinson, detail a crew 
 for each boat."
 
 102 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 It was not likely, after all these preparations for a 
 pursuit, that McLeish would succeed in reaching the 
 shore. 
 
 " It's all up with us ! " said Lynch, in desponding 
 tones, when Groom hailed his brother officers in the 
 cabin. 
 
 " Perhaps not : they won't know we helped him 
 oft ," replied Grossbeck. 
 
 " They can't help knowing it. Didn't McLeish get 
 into the boat under our very noses? There are the 
 first cutters. They must have been all ready. There's 
 the captain ! He hasn't had time to turn out since the 
 alarm was given. I tell you some one has snuffed 
 this business ; and let us fall into the trap," added 
 Lynch, desperately. "What shaU we do?" 
 
 u What can we do? Of course we shall be reported 
 to Lowington, and sent on board the ship.'' 
 
 " O, it's all up with us ! " sighed Lynch. " Brig for 
 a week or two, and all our privileges stopped ! It 
 makes me mad to think of it. McLeish is the biggest 
 blockhead I ever heard of. It would have been all 
 right if he had not been such an amazingly stupid fool ! " 
 
 The chapfallen conspirators observed the prep:; ra 
 tions that were made for the capture of McLeish. 
 The boatman could not have gone fifty yards before 
 the first cutter was off; and if Terrill did not miss the 
 boat in the darkness, the culprit was sure to be taken. 
 The gig was the second sent off, and the second and 
 third cutters lowered, and hauled up to the accommo 
 dation ladder, ready for use if needed. 
 
 " Can I do anything, sir?" asked Cleats, the boat 
 swain, as he touched his cap to the captain.
 
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 " Nothing at present," replied Paul ; " I only fear 
 the gig and cutter will miss the boat, it is so dark." 
 
 " We can give them plenty of light, sir. We have 
 some blue lights below," added Cleats. 
 
 " Bring them up and fire them at once," said Paul, 
 delighted with the idea. 
 
 The boatswain brought up his blue fire, and placing 
 the roll on a plank upon the rail, lighted it. The ves 
 sel and the river for a circuit of half a mile around her 
 were brilliantly illuminated. It was three o'clock on 
 the morning of the Fourth of July, and on board of 
 an American vessel, manned by boys, the demonstra 
 tion was not inappropriate. 
 
 The bright light revealed the position of all the 
 boats, but the gig and cutter had both been steering 
 wide of the chase until the blue fire disclosed it to 
 them. The first cutter was the nearest, and a few 
 strokes of the well-trained oarsmen brought her along 
 side the boatman's craft. 
 
 " Pull, man ! Why don't you pull ? " cried McLeish, 
 when he saw the night turned into day, and the Jose 
 phine's cutter rapidly overhauling him. 
 
 " It's no use to pull," replied the boatman. " That 
 boat can go two yards to my one." 
 
 " Then give me back my sovereign," retorted 
 McLeish, angrily. 
 
 " When I do, tell your grandmother of it," an 
 swered the boatman in surly tones. u You are an 
 idiot! If you had kept your mouth shut, as the lads 
 told you, we had gone off clean." 
 
 li Pull, man ! The boat is almost upon us ! " ex 
 claimed McLeish.
 
 104 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I'm not going to break my back for an idiot," re 
 plied the man, who had the sovereign in his pocket, 
 and did not care a straw what became of his pas 
 senger. 
 
 " I'll no be taken back," said McLeish, desperately, 
 as he seized the boat-hook. 
 
 " Don't break that boat-hook," added the boatman, 
 as the first cutter ranged up on the bow of his craft. 
 
 " Stand by me, man," pleaded the runaway, ap 
 palled by his situation. u Put me on the shore, and 
 I'll give you another sovereign." 
 
 " I don't think I can," said the boatman, whose 
 cupidity was excited by this liberal offer. 
 
 " McLeish, I'll trouble you to step into this boat," 
 said Terrill. 
 
 " I'll not do it," replied the rebel, flatly, as he bran 
 dished the boat-hook over his head, and made sundry 
 insane flourishes. " If you want me, come and take 
 me." 
 
 " That I shall do," added Terrill, spunkily. " Pass 
 the boat-hook aft," said he to the crew of the cutter. 
 
 At this moment Pelham in the gig dashed up to the 
 battle-ground, and, unwilling to be behind the first 
 lieutenant, he leaped forward to the bow of his boat, 
 and then into that in which McLeish was just closing 
 with Terrill. Seizing the culprit by the collar, he 
 forced him down into the bottom of the boat. The 
 rebel was effectually suppressed. The two officers 
 tumbled him into the cutter, and both boats pulled for 
 the schooner. 
 
 The blue fire had been kept burning till the gig and 
 cutter returned to the Josephine. The recaptured
 
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 prisoner, sullen and angry, was ordered on deck. He 
 was too mad to obey the order, and a couple of 
 officers dragged him on board. He was taken down 
 to the brig again, and the door locked upon him once 
 more. 
 
 " You may just put me in there if you please, but 
 I'll no stay there," growled the prisoner, as the brig 
 was opened for his reception. 
 
 " How did you get out?" asked Captain Kendall, 
 probably not with the expectation that the question 
 would be answered. 
 
 " It's just none of your business how I got out ; but 
 I'll be out again," replied McLeish. 
 
 " Lock him up," added Paul, who had decided not 
 to investigate the matter till morning. 
 
 " I'll just burn your old hulk ! I'll show you what 
 it is to insult a MacGregor." 
 
 " Stop a moment," interposed Captain Kendall ; 
 " search his pockets." 
 
 u I'll kill the first one of you that comes near," 
 said McLeish, retreating to the' farthest corner of his 
 cell, and thrusting his hand into his pocket for his knife. 
 
 Pelham, always prompt and decided in his action, 
 rushed upon the culprit, who had taken the knife from 
 his pocket, before he hadtime to open it. He wrested 
 the weapon from him, and threw him down upon the 
 berth-sack, where he held him until the first lieutenant 
 had " fished all his pockets." There were no matches 
 taken from him, but two sovereigns and two half sov 
 ereigns were found upon him. The knife and the 
 money were taken, and everything else returned to 
 him.
 
 IO6 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " You're a set of robbers ! " exclaimed McLeish, 
 when the officers let him up. " If I ever get ashore 
 within the United Kingdom, I'll have you arrested for 
 stealing my money." 
 
 " Lock him up," said the captain. 
 
 " You can just lock me up, but I'll get out in spite 
 of you," howled the prisoner, crying like a baby, in 
 the madness of his passion. 
 
 " Where is Mr. Gage? " asked Paul. 
 
 " Here, sir," replied the carpenter. 
 
 " Can you tell in what manner the door of the brig 
 was opened?" 
 
 Gage examined the lock. 
 
 " I think these screws must have been removed, and 
 the lock taken off," he replied. " It could not have 
 been done by the fellow in the brig. He had some 
 help on the outside." 
 
 " Verv well ; we will inquire into that in the morn 
 ing. Can you make the door any more secure ? " 
 
 " I can put on a heavy hasp and staple, and lock it 
 with a padlock, such as we use for the bread-room in 
 the hold. I have a spare one." 
 
 "Can you put it on without screws?" asked the 
 captain. 
 
 "Yes drive the staples in, and clinch them on the 
 other side." 
 
 " You will do it at once, if you please," added Paul. 
 
 " I shall have to open the door." 
 
 " I'll take care of the prisoner," volunteered Cleats. 
 
 The carpenter went for the hasp and staples, and the 
 job was commenced at once. As the captain turned 
 to go on deck, the fourth master rushed down below,
 
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 and informed him that the third cutter was missing. 
 Paul was congratulating himself upon the success of 
 the measures he had taken to capture the runaway, 
 when this new misfortune was reported to him. 
 
 " What does this mean? " he asked of Terrill, when 
 he reached the deck. 
 
 " More runaways, I am afraid," replied the first 
 lieutenant. 
 
 " Pipe to muster," added the captain, sick at heart, 
 as he thought of the danger which menaced the ex 
 periment with which he had been intrusted. 
 
 "All hands on deck, ahoy ! " shouted the boatswain, 
 after he had wound the shrill call. 
 
 " Mr. Ritchie, you will call the roll," said Paul, dis 
 consolately. . 
 
 The names of the officers were called, and then of 
 the crew. 
 
 " Grossbeck ! " 
 
 No answer. 
 
 " Grossbeck ! " 
 
 Still no answer. 
 
 " I can tell who the other is," said Groom, the officer 
 of the deck. " It is Lynch." 
 
 So it proved when the name was called. The two 
 absentees had composed the anchor-watch at the time 
 the boatman had come under the bows of the schooner, 
 and it was plain that by their connivance McLeish had 
 been assisted out of the brig, and then into the boat.
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 OFF THE CALF OF MAN. 
 
 IT was evident that Lynch and Grossbeck had left 
 the schooner, not because they desired to get away, 
 but in order to avoid the consequences of their miscon 
 duct in releasing the prisoner, and helping him to 
 escape from the vessel. It was shown by the testi 
 mony of others that they were not dissatisfied with 
 their position on board, but, on the contrary, had 
 often expressed their appreciation of their good for 
 tune in obtaining a berth on board of the Josephine. 
 
 Paul was in great trouble ; but he ordered all the 
 boats to be lowered again, detailed officers to go in 
 them, and then went down into his state-room. Re 
 membering what the other runaways had done before 
 they left the ship, he opened his strong box to satisfy 
 himself that it had not been robbed. Not a shilling 
 had been taken from it, and he breathed easier. Lock 
 ing the safe, he put the key in his pocket, and returned 
 to the deck. It was now about daylight. Martyn was 
 se"nt off in the gig, and Pelham in the first cutter, to 
 search for the runaways. 
 
 The captain stepped into the stern-sheets of the 
 second cutter, and ordered the coxswain to pull for 
 the Young America, for he felt it to be his duty to
 
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 report immediately the events which had occurred 
 during the night. He found no one on deck but Mr. 
 Bitts, the carpenter, for the anchor watch in port was 
 always kept by the adult forward officers. 
 
 " Captain Kendall ! " exclaimed the carpenter, when 
 he saw who his early visitor was. 
 
 " I wish to see Mr. Lowington," said Paul. 
 
 " I think he is awake, sir, for I reported to him a 
 while ago that you were burning blue lights on board 
 the Josephine." 
 
 "What did he say?" 
 
 " He only laughed, and said you had begun early 
 to celebrate the Fourth of July." 
 
 " We were not exactly celebrating the Fourth," 
 replied Paul, rather gloomily, as he went below and 
 entered the professors' cabin. 
 
 He knocked at the door of the principal's state 
 room, and gave his name when asked for it. Af.er 
 waiting a few moments, Mr. Lowington invited him 
 to come in. 
 
 " I hope nothing unpleasant has happened, Captain 
 Kendall," said the principal, taking the hand of the 
 young commander. 
 
 " I am sorry to say something very unfortunate has 
 occurred," replied Paul, very much depressed in 
 spirits. 
 
 " Don't be so sad about it, for whatever has hap 
 pened, I am sure you have done your duty." 
 
 " Thank you for that, sir. I have lost two of my 
 crew." 
 
 " Lost them ! " exclaimed Mr. Lowington, alarmed 
 by the equivocal phrase. 
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 " I mean that they have run away, sir." 
 
 The principal was relieved. He feared they had 
 been drowned. 
 
 ; " Who were they? " 
 
 " Lynch and Grossbeck." 
 
 " I should hardly expect anything better from such 
 students. Did they get any of your money? " 
 
 " No, sir ; that is all safe, and I have the key of the 
 box in my pocket." 
 
 " You were celebrating the Fourth rather early in 
 the morning were you not? " 
 
 " No, sir." 
 
 " The carpenter reported that you were burning 
 blue lights." 
 
 " That was for another purpose. Lynch and Gross- 
 beck took the screws out of the lock on the brig, and 
 let McLeish out. They must have engaged a boat to 
 take him from the schooner when they were on shore 
 Saturday ; indeed, I saw Lynch talking with a boat 
 man on the George's Landing Stage. The officer of 
 the watch happened to discover that he was not in the 
 brig. The prisoner got off, but we captured him 
 again. We burned the blue fire so that the boats 
 could find him." 
 
 " So you captured him again," added the principal, 
 with a smile. 
 
 " Yes, sir, we did ; " and Paul detailed all the cir 
 cumstances of the departure and recovery of McLeish, 
 and the desertion of Lynch and Grossbeck. 
 
 " That was very well done indeed, Captain Kendall. 
 I thank you and you-r officers for the skill and prompt 
 ness you have displayed. I am sorry you have lost 
 the two seamen," said the principal.
 
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 " I feel very bad about it, sir ; and I feel that I am 
 to blame for it," added Paul. 
 
 "Am I to blame for losing three of the ship's com 
 pany at Cork?" asked the principal, with a pleasant 
 smile, which made Paul feel much better. 
 
 " I was so busy looking out for McLeish, that I did 
 not think of those who had assisted him." 
 
 " I do not blame you, for you have been faithful, 
 and that is enough. We all make mistakes, but if we 
 mean right, we need not reproach ourselves. What 
 have you done ? " 
 
 " I have sent two boats to look for the runaways." 
 
 " Very well ; I will send four more." 
 
 Mr. Lowington went to the after-cabin, and called 
 the captain of the ship. In a short time the boat 
 swain's call for all hands rang through the vessel, and 
 the four boats were sent off to look for the runaways. 
 Captain Kendall returned to the Josephine, relieved 
 of some portion of his anxiety. Hardly had he 
 stepped upon the deck before the gig was reported 
 as approaching the schooner with the missing cutter 
 in tow. 
 
 " Where did you find the boat?" asked the captain, 
 as Pelham came up the side. 
 
 " I found it going up the river with the tide. But 
 I saw nothing of Lynch and Grossbeck," replied the 
 officer of the boat. 
 
 "Can they have fallen overboard?" said Paul, with 
 emotion. 
 
 " Certainly not," answered Pelham, decidedly. 
 " The boat was dry inside, and the oars lay on 
 the thwarts in ship-shape order."
 
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 " And you have no idea what has become of the 
 deserters ? " 
 
 " I have an idea, but of course I don't know any 
 thing about it," added Pelham. 
 
 " What is your idea ? " 
 
 "Just before I found the boat, I saw an English 
 brig standing down the river with a fair wind. 
 In my opinion the deserters are on board of that 
 vessel." 
 
 " Did you get the brig's name?" 
 
 " It was the Prince Alfred. She appeared to be in 
 ballast." 
 
 Half an hour later, the first cutter returned, and 
 Martyn reported that he had hailed a boatman, near 
 the south-end Landing Stage, who informed him that 
 he had seen two boys go on board of a brig, and turn 
 their boat adrift. He had pulled for the boat in order 
 to pick it up, but it had been secured by a six-oar cut 
 ter before he could reach it. 
 
 It was plain enough that the runaways had taken 
 passage in the brig, and Paul went in the gig to the 
 Young America to report the facts. The signal for 
 the return of her boats was immediately hoisted, when 
 the information had been communicated. Nothing 
 more could be done, and Mr. Lowington said a great 
 many kind words to comfort the young commander 
 of the consort. The celebration of the day had al 
 ready been commenced on board the ship, which was 
 gayly dressed with flags, and Paul went on board the 
 Josephine to put her in trim also. 
 
 After breakfast all hands were " piped to mischief," 
 or, rather, to fun ; and while the festivities of the occa-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 113 
 
 sion were still in progress, Paul was sent for by Mr. 
 Lowington. 
 
 " Captain Kendall," said the principal, when thr 
 young commander had reported to him, " the boat 
 has just come off with the mail. The steamer ar 
 rived at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, and will 
 reach Liverpool before night. Our recruits are on 
 board of her, and to-morrow your professors will join 
 your, vessel. There is a letter-bag made up for your 
 ship's company. Mr. Fluxion went ashore in the 
 boat, and upon inquiring at the custom-house, found 
 that the brig Prince Alfred cleared in ballast for Bel 
 fast, to load for Quebec. If you and your crew are 
 willing to dispense with the rest of the fun of the day, 
 I propose that you follow the brig to Belfast, and re 
 claim your runaways." 
 
 Paul's heart leaped with delight at the prospect of 
 taking the Josephine out upon the blue water, and he 
 cordially agreed to the proposition. 
 
 "In order to keep your quarter watches full, for 
 you are short-handed now, I shall draft seven more 
 seamen into your vessel ; for I find that instead of 
 thirty students, about forty will arrive by the steamer 
 This will give you a crew of twenty-eight. Perhaps, 
 before we leave Liverpool, I shall increase your crew 
 to thirty-six, your full complement." 
 
 The ship's crew were piped to muster, and seven 
 below the rank of petty officers were drawn by lot, 
 and sent on board the Josephine. They were happy 
 fellows, for it was fully understood in the Young 
 America that the schooner's crew had extra privi 
 leges. Paul returned to his vessel with his crew. 
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 114 KED CR SS, OR 
 
 Something was said by the principal about relieving 
 the schooner of McLeish's presence ; but it was finally 
 decided that, as Wilton and Monroe still occupied the 
 brig of the Young America, the reprobate should re 
 main where he was ; though Paul was reminded that 
 it was his adult boatswain's duty to handle offenders, 
 rather than his officers, even while it was conceded 
 that the officers should enforce obedience. 
 
 " Mr. Terrill, you will get the schooner under way 
 immediately," said Captain Kendall, as he stepped on 
 the deck of the Josephine. 
 
 " Under way ! " repeated the first lieutenant, in ut 
 ter astonishment. 
 
 This was an unofficer-like reply, and Paul, without 
 noticing it, went down to his state-room. But Terrill 
 felt the reproof, and immediately gave the orders to 
 hoist up the boats, and strip the vessel of the gay flags 
 which adorned her. While he was doing so, Paul 
 opened the mail-bag brought off by his gig, and found 
 three letters for himself two from home, and one 
 from Belfast. He read the one from his mother first, 
 and as the family were all well, he opened that from 
 Ireland. He felt " queer," he knew not why, as he 
 did so. The first three pages, after acknowledging 
 the pleasure which the writer had derived from read 
 ing his letter from Greenock, contained an account 
 of an archery match in the Botanical Gardens. On 
 the fourth page, she informed him that she should 
 start for London with her parents in the course of a 
 week. 
 
 Paul was very fond of Grace Arbuckle ; and since 
 he had made her acquaintance in Belfast, he had
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 115 
 
 thought a great deal more about her than he was 
 willing to acknowledge even to himself. She was 
 the prettiest and pleasantest young lady he had ever 
 seen, and he prized her friendship very highly. He 
 could not tell exactly how it was, but it afforded him 
 very great pleasure to write to her, and a still greater 
 pleasure to receive a letter from her. There was 
 nothing sentimental in the correspondence, nothing 
 "tender;" it was friendship that was all as they 
 understood it. 
 
 He read this letter twice. The Josephine was bound 
 for Belfast, and was getting ready for her departure at 
 that moment. His bosom bounded with emotion as 
 he thought of seeing Grace ; of standing in her pres 
 ence with the two anchors on his shoulder-straps, and 
 the five gold bands on his sleeves. What a delight it 
 would be to show her through the vessel ! What a 
 joy to stand upon the quarter-deck at her side, when 
 she knew that he was the commander of the beautiful 
 craft ! As he was captain, he could give her a com 
 plimentary excursion. If she never before believed 
 he was a great man, she would be convinced of the 
 fact now. 
 
 Before he had read the third letter, which was from 
 a former schoolmate, his rhapsody was disturbed by 
 the call of the boatswain for all hands. Not a soul 
 on board except himself knew that the Josephine was 
 going to sea, for, in imitation of the principal of the 
 Academy Ship, he determined to keep his own coun 
 sel, at least until the officers manifested some curiosity. 
 The captain went on deck, and found the officers and 
 crew at their stations. The first lieutenant had given
 
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 the seven new seamen their places, and twenty-eight 
 hands were now ready for duty. 
 
 The mainsail was hoisted, the foresail set, the stops 
 on the jib and flying jib removed, and the anchor hove 
 short. 
 
 " Anchor apeak, sir," reported the second lieutenant 
 to Terrili. 
 
 " Wait a little while, Mr. Terrili," the captain inter 
 posed ; for the pilot which Mr. Lowington had prom 
 ised to send off, had not yet come on board. 
 
 Presently his canoe appeared, and he stepped on 
 board. He was a burly, big man, over six feet high, 
 and weighing " ten stone," as he said himself. He 
 looked pleasant, and glanced about him, apparently 
 amused at the juvenile aspect of everything on 
 board. 
 
 "Where's the captain?" asked he, with a broad 
 grin on his face, as he stepped up to Terrili, who re 
 ceived him at the gangway. 
 
 " There he is, sir." replied the first lieutenant, point 
 ing to Paul. 
 
 " That ! " exclaimed the pilot. " But I mean the 
 captain of the vessel." 
 
 " I am the captain," said Paul, with becoming 
 dignity. 
 
 "You!" 
 
 The pilot measured him from head to foot with his 
 eye, and then burst into a violent fit of laughter. 
 
 " Is this the Josephine? " he asked, when he could 
 speak again. 
 
 " This is the Josephine," answered Captain Kendall. 
 
 " But this can't be the vessel I'm to take to sea."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 117 
 
 " Yes, it is, sir. Excuse me, but we are waiting 
 your movements," added Paul, with spirit. 
 
 " My eyes ! " ejaculated the pilot. " There are 
 nothing but boys on board." 
 
 " The officers and crew are at their stations," added 
 Paul. " If you are ready to unmoor ship, please to 
 say so." 
 
 " I'm all ready, captain my eyes ! Am I to take 
 this schooner to sea with these boys?" 
 
 " Certainly you are. Mr. Terrill, you will proceed 
 to unmoor ship," said the captain. 
 
 " Man the capstan bars, ship and swifter them ! 
 Heave round ! " shouted Terrill. 
 
 " Bless me ! he talks salt enough," said the pilot, 
 laughing till his fat sides jarred like a barrel of jelly. 
 
 " Anchor aweigh, sir," reported the boatswain on 
 the forecastle ; and the word was passed through the 
 line of officers till it came to the first lieutenant. 
 
 " Man the jib and flying-jib halyards," added 
 Terrill. 
 
 " Anchor's at the bow, sir," called the boatswain. 
 
 " Hoist away on the jib halyards ! Avast heaving ! 
 Pawl the capstan ! Stopper the cable ! Cat and fish 
 the anchor ! " continued the first lieutenant. 
 
 These orders were obeyed as they were given, rap 
 idly and in perfect order. 
 
 " Hoist away on the flying-jib halyards. Starboard 
 the helm, quarter-master ! " Terrill proceeded. 
 
 " The vessel is in your charge, Mr. Pilot," said the 
 captain. 
 
 " My eyes ! " replied the pilot, taking a long breath. 
 " I knew that America was a fast country, but I didn't
 
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 know they sent their babies to sea in command of 
 vessels." 
 
 " I think you will find we can handle her," added 
 Paul. 
 
 " I see you can ; and I never saw anything better 
 done in all my life, not even on board one of Her 
 Majesty's men-of-war. Port a little, quarter-master ! 
 Steady ! " 
 
 " Will you have more sail on her?" asked the cap 
 tain. 
 
 " Ay ; give her the fore-topsail and fore-topgallant- 
 ail." 
 
 Captain Kendall ordered the first lieutenant to set 
 these sails. 
 
 " Aloft, sail-loosers ! " shouted the executive officer ; 
 and those whose stations were on the topsail and top 
 gallant yards sprang into the rigging. " Lay out ! " 
 and they followed the foot-ropes out. " Loose ! " 
 " Let fall ! " k ' Man your sheets and halyards ! " 
 " Sheet home and hoist away ! " 
 
 " Capital ! " exclaimed the delighted pilot. 
 
 " Man the fore-braces ! " continued the first lieu- 
 ten'ant, when the sails were set, and it was necessary 
 to trim them. " Let go the weather braces, haul on 
 the lee braces ! " 
 
 The wind was about south-west, which gave it to 
 the Josephine about on the beam. 
 
 " My eyes ! I declare the lads are as handy as 
 though they had been rocked in the cradle of the 
 deep," said the pilot, who had hardly ceased to laugh 
 since he came on board. 
 
 The breeze was fresh, and the schooner heeled over
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. I 19 
 
 and went into it as though she meant business. Offi 
 cers and crew were delighted with her performance, 
 and the pilot did not cease to express his wonder that 
 " a parcel of lads " should be sent to sea in charge of 
 such a fine vessel. 
 
 The approaches of the Mersey are full of rocks, 
 shoals, and sand-bars. The channels are very intri 
 cate, and the navigation dangerous. The schooner 
 passed out of Queen's Channel, and the pilot's duties 
 were finished off the Bell Beacon, twelve miles from 
 her berth in the river. 
 
 " Keep her N. W. f N., quarter-master," said the 
 first master, who, with his associates in the sailing 
 department, had been consulting the chart. 
 
 The captain, when questioned, had been obliged to 
 inform the first master what course to steer. He had 
 simply told him to head the vessel for the Calf of Man, 
 which is the south-western point of the Isle of Man. 
 A lunch had been prepai'ed for the pilot in the cabin, 
 and as soon as the course had been laid, he was invited 
 below to partake of it. He was treated with " distin 
 guished consideration," and to the last he continued 
 to express his astonishment that a company of boys 
 should be sent to sea in such a fine vessel, and his 
 admiration of the ease and skill with which she was 
 handled. As the pilot boat to which he belonged ap- 
 pea-ed, the topsails of the Josephine were backed, and 
 she lay to long enough for the pilot to embark. 
 
 " A pleasant voyage to you, Captain Kendall," said 
 he, as he stepped into his canoe. 
 
 " Thank you," replied the young commander. 
 
 " My eyes ! " exclaimed the burly pilot, in an un- 
 der-tone. " A boy captain and a boy crew ! v
 
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 The Josephine filled away again on her course. 
 The officers and seamen of the port watch were piped 
 to dinner. Half an hour later the starboard watch 
 dined. The afternoon was spent in arranging the 
 watches and quarter watches, and in drilling the 
 crew ; but the wind held fair and fresh, and there 
 was not much real work to do. The schooner had 
 taken her departure from Bell Beacon, off the entrance 
 to the Queen's Channel, at one o'clock. For several 
 hours she logged from eleven and a half to twelve and 
 a half knots, and at this rate she would make the Calf 
 by six o'clock. There were plenty of vessels on the 
 same tack, and the Josephine went by scores of them. 
 This was the kind of life which pleased the students 
 on board, and all of them were in a state of satisfac 
 tion bordering upon rapture. 
 
 Paul planked the weather side of the quarter deck 
 full of dignity, but also full of rejoicing. Everything 
 was superlatively splendid. Among the officers and 
 the crew, there had .been many speculations as to the 
 destination of the schooner ; but so excellent was their 
 nautical training, that no one asked the only person on 
 board who knew. 
 
 u If this breeze holds, we shall make our port in 
 the night," said the captain to Terrill, who, as the 
 officer of the deck, shared the weather side witli 
 him. 
 
 " I think we shall," replied the first lieutenant, rather 
 dryly ; for he had not the least idea what that port 
 might be. 
 
 " We are bound for Belfast," added Paul, appre 
 ciating the joke.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 121 
 
 " We have been there," said Terrill. 
 
 " We are going there again. I expect to find out 
 deserters there." 
 
 " Lynch and Grossbeck?" 
 
 " Yes ; " and the captain obligingly explained the 
 circumstances which had caused the sudden departure 
 r,f the Josephine from Liverpool. 
 
 "You will keep a sharp lookout for an English 
 brig in ballast," added Paul, " and instruct your offi 
 cers to do so." 
 
 Captain Kendall went down into the cabin, and in 
 a few moments every officer on board knew where the 
 schooner was bound, and the object of her voyage. 
 At four o'clock the port watch had the deck ; and, as 
 the studies were suspended until the arrival of the re 
 cruits, Paul decided to keep full watch on deck all the 
 time. At the end of the first dog watch from four 
 till six the starboard watch had the deck again for 
 the second dog watch from six to eight. 
 
 At five o'clock land on the starboard bow was 
 sighted. It was the Isle of Man. In an hour and 
 a half more the light-house on the Calf bore north, 
 and Groom, the senior master on duty, gave out the 
 course, N. W. The sheets of the fore and^ mainsail 
 were let out, a pull given on the weather braces, and 
 the bow of the Josephine headed according to the 
 directions. 
 
 " An English brig in ballast, dead ahead ! " reported 
 Pelham, who, being oft" duty, had gone forward to 
 look out for the vessel which the Josephine was ex 
 pected to overhaul before morning. 
 
 The Josephine was making two knots to her one, 
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 122 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 for, being light ballasted, the brig could not carry sail, 
 and in half an hour came up with her. 
 
 Pelham was positive she was the vessel he had seen 
 early in the morning. Everybody on board was ex 
 cited, though Captain Kendall, in deference to his 
 dignity, continued to look calm. 
 
 " Run up to the windward of her, and hail her," 
 said Paul to the first lieutenant. 
 
 " Brig ahoy ! " shouted Terrill, as the Josephine ran 
 up on her weather beam, and took half the wind out 
 of her sails. 
 
 u On board the schooner," replied a hoarse voice 
 from the Prince Alfred, for her name had been read 
 on the stern. 
 
 " We want two young men you took on board at 
 Liverpool," yelled the first lieutenant through his 
 trumpet. 
 
 " No young men aboard," replied the captain of the 
 Prince Alfred. 
 
 But at this moment both Lynch and Grossbeck 
 leaped upon the brig's rail, and proved the lie. 
 
 " Down from there, you young whelps ! " cried the 
 master, angrily ; and he was seen to hit Lynch with a 
 rope's end. 
 
 u Throw her up into the wind ! " said Paul, as the 
 Josephine was running by the brig. 
 
 " Help ! Help ! " shouted Lynch, not five minutes 
 after the order had been given to put the helm 
 down. 
 
 The officers and crew rushed to the lee side, and 
 discovered Lynch in the water clinging to a spar, and 
 Grossbeck swimming lustily towards him. The Prince
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 123 
 
 Alfred was backing her main-topsail for the purpose 
 of heaving to. 
 
 " Down with the helm ! " shouted Captain Kendall, 
 without waiting to give his orders through the first 
 lieutenant. " Man the first cutter ! Pelham, take 
 charge of her ! " 
 
 The first cutters sprang into their boat at the davits 
 at Pelham's order ; the falls were manned, and in a 
 moment she was in the water. The falls were cast 
 off", and the boat was carried by a wave to the leeward 
 of the ship. 
 
 " Oars ! let fall ! " cried the coxswain with thrilling 
 earnestness ; and the cutter, mounting the waves, 
 dashed off towards the deserters, both of whom were 
 now clinging to the spar. 
 
 There was a scene of confusion on board the brig, 
 and above the moaning of the wind in her rigging 
 and the dash of the sea could be heard the savage 
 oaths of her captain, as he hurried the crew in lower 
 ing the jollv-boat. They were behind time ; the dis 
 cipline of the students had done its perfect work, and 
 by the time the brig's boat was in the water, the cutter 
 had picked up the half-drowned deserters. They were 
 taken to the schooner, and when the boat had been 
 hoisted up, she filled away on her course again, amid 
 the yells and the curses of the master of the brig, who 
 was obliged to wait till the spar from which the runa 
 ways had been taken was secured.
 
 124 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 CAPTAIN KENDALL'S GUESTS. 
 
 LYNCH and Grossbeck were sent below to put 
 on dry clothing. Both of them, independently 
 of their dripping and draggled appearance, looked 
 crestfallen and sheepish. It was clear enough to the 
 officers of the Josephine that the experience of the 
 runaways on board the Prince Alfred had been any 
 thing but pleasant ; for had it been even tolerable, 
 they would not have voluntarily exhibited themselves. 
 The blow of the rope's end which the captain had 
 given Lynch, indicated the character of the treatment 
 they had received, and the further evidence that they 
 had jumped overboard in order to escape, was con 
 clusive, if the rest was not. 
 
 As soon as the runaways had made themselves com 
 fortable in dry clothes, and eaten their supper, they 
 reported to the first lieutenant on deck, as they had 
 been ordered. They were handed over to the captain 
 for examination. 
 
 " I am* very sorry I ran away, Captain Kendall," 
 Lynch began ; " but I am ready to face the music, 
 and take the consequences." 
 
 -' So am I," added Grossbeck.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 125 
 
 " We had no more idea of running away than you 
 had, sir, till the trouble with McLeish began." 
 
 " Why did you run away then? " asked the captain, 
 sternly. 
 
 " We were in a scrape, and we thought that was 
 the best way to get out of it. We were wrpng, sir ; 
 and both of us are sorry enough for what we have 
 done." 
 
 " You helped McLeish out of the brig did you?" 
 
 " I did, sir," replied Lynch. " Grossbeck had noth 
 ing to do with the affair till I had let him out." 
 
 " The first time," added Grossbeck ; " for I let him 
 out myself the second time." 
 
 " Then you let him out twice?" 
 
 "Yes, sir;" and Lynch related the facts that oc 
 curred on Friday night. 
 
 u What induced you to let him out? " asked Paul. 
 
 " It is rather natural for a fellow to help another 
 when he is in trouble. He gave me a sovereign, also. 
 Here is half of it ; I gave the rest to Grossbeck," 
 answered Lynch, delivering up his share to the cap 
 tain ; and his example was followed by Grossbeck. 
 
 Paul listened to the rest of their story, each reliev 
 ing the other as his information was better, until they 
 came to their own departure. 
 
 " We didn't want to leave the vessel," said Lynch ; 
 " we liked her, and we liked you " 
 
 u None of that," interposed Paul. " No compli 
 ments ; I don't feel the need of them from you." 
 
 " I only meant to say that we were well suited with 
 our position on board. You trusted the fellows on 
 Saturday as they had never been trusted before, 
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 126 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Grossbeck and I had the half-sovereign each, and left 
 it on board for fear we should spend it for beer, or 
 something of that sort." 
 
 ''Didn't you drink any beer on Saturday?" asked 
 Paul, curiously. 
 
 "Not.a drop, sir! you trusted us that time, and 
 it was honor bright with me ; and I know it was with 
 Grossbeck, for neither of us tasted a drop of anything, 
 or went into any bad places. We were pleased with 
 things on board, and we didn't want to leave." 
 
 " But we couldn't help it," said Grossbeck, taking 
 up the narrative, " when McLeish was caught. Wd 
 were exposed then, and expected to go into the brig 
 with him ; so we went below and got our money ; 
 and while everybody was watching the boats on the 
 starboard side, we dropped into the third cutter or 
 the port side, cast off the painter, and let the tide take 
 us up the river. As soon as the blue fire went out, 
 we pulled till we came to that brig. She was just 
 tripping her anchor. We hailed her, and asked the 
 captain where he was bound. He said Belfast and 
 Quebec, and told us he was short-handed. We took 
 a rope he threw us, and climbed up into the main 
 chains. He asked if we wanted to ship, and said he 
 would give us men's wages. We didn't ship ; we 
 only told him we would see about it when he got to 
 Belfast. Then he told us we were runaways from the 
 Yankee school-ship, and if we didn't ship, he would 
 hand us over to her captain." 
 
 " I didn't like that, for one," said Lynch, " and we 
 jumped over the rail, letting the boat go adrift ; for 
 we were afraid you would see it and discover us as
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. I2J 
 
 * 
 
 we passed the Josephine. Just as soon as the captain 
 saw the boat adrift, I thought he had suddenly gone 
 crazy ; and such an awful blessing as he gave us ! for 
 he wanted to keep the boat. But his anchor was at 
 the bow, and he was in danger of drifting upon an 
 other vessel that fey astern of him ; so he had to fill 
 away. Just afterwards we saw the first cutter pull* 
 by the brig, and we kept shady. We went to work 
 with the crew, who were the worst set of men I ever 
 saw, and helped them set the top-gallant-sails ; but 
 they had to take them in again, the vessel was so 
 crank when she got the breeze. 
 
 " The captain and the mate treated the men like 
 hogs,and I never heard so much swearing in my life 
 as when we catted and fished the anchor. At break 
 fast we could not eat a mouthful ; the salt junk smelled 
 bad, and the tea tasted like herb drink, without any 
 sugar and milk." 
 
 " It made me sick," put in Grossbeck. " Neither 
 of us ate anything. At dinner it was worse. We 
 tried to eat some ship-bread, but it was full of mag 
 gots." 
 
 " We were disgusted, and sorry enough that we had 
 jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire," continued 
 Lynch. u The captain brought up the shipping- 
 papers, and told us to sign them. We refused to do 
 so, for we had no idea of going to Quebec in that 
 style. He swore and raved like a madman just as 
 you heard him when you picked us up. He said we 
 might sign, or he would give us to the police as de 
 serters from our ship ; but we still refused to do so. 
 He told us we needn't think to get awav when the brig
 
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 arrived at Belfast, for he would lock us up. He made 
 us work all day like dogs in the hold, laying a plat 
 form on the ballast for the cargo. We hadn't eaten 
 a mouthful all day, and we didn't feel like working ; 
 but the brute of a mate kicked us about as though we 
 didn't cost anything. We didn't sleep much last night, 
 but we were put on the first watch. I never felt so 
 bad in my life." 
 
 " Nor I," added Grossbeck. " When we saw the 
 Josephine", we were ready to shout for joy. The cap 
 tain sent us into the forecastle, which was in a house 
 on deck, when you hailed the brig. We heard the 
 lie he told, and we ran out and jumped upon the rail 
 so you could see us. Then he hit Lynch, and .drove 
 us back to the forecastle. There was a short spare 
 spar hanging over the side between the chains.. I told 
 Lynch what we must do, and while the captain was 
 watching you, I took a hatchet and cut the slings, let 
 ting the spar fall into the water, and we followed it. 
 The brig ran ahead, and we swam for the spar. 
 Lynch went over first, and reached the spar before I 
 did. I would rather have been drowned than stay in 
 the brig. The first cutter picked us up, and we were 
 glad enough to get on board the Josephine again." 
 
 " Then you don't like going to sea in an English 
 brig?" said Captain Kendall, with a smile. 
 
 " No, sir ; no, sir," replied both, shaking their heads 
 significantly. 
 
 " What did you expect to do with yourselves when 
 you ran away ? " 
 
 " We didn't know." 
 
 " Suppose you had got away from the brig in Bel-
 
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 first, what could you have done, after your ten shil 
 lings were gone ? " 
 
 " I don't know," answered Lynch, blankly. 
 
 " I hope you have found out that the best and safest 
 way for you is to keep within the line of your duty." 
 
 " I think we have, sir," replied the penitent Gross- 
 beck. 
 
 " I have," added Lynch, decidedly. " I solemnly 
 promise you that I will behave like a man from this 
 time." ' 
 
 " ]hope you will ; but do you expect to escape the 
 punishment of your offence? " 
 
 " No, sir ; I don't ask that," said Lynch. " What 
 ever the punishment may be, it will not be so bad as 
 staying a single hour on board of that brig, I'm 
 sure of that." 
 
 " Of course you expect to be sent on board of the 
 ship," added the captain. 
 
 " We cannot complain. It is all our own fault." 
 
 u As you are worn out with hard work, you may 
 go below and turn in," replied Paul, whose pity was 
 making sad inroads upon the stern dignity required 
 of a commander on such an occasion. 
 
 The culprits touched their caps, and retired. They 
 had expected to spend the night in the brig with 
 McLeish ; but they concluded that their punishment 
 was only deferred. Paul could not find it in his heait 
 to punish them after what they had suffered, for he 
 was satisfied that their frank confession was not a 
 sham. They had voluntarily, and at no little risk and 
 pains, returned to the schooner. He had himself seen 
 a specimen of the brutality of the captain of the brig
 
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 enough to make the story of the runaways quite real 
 to him. The worst thing he had any idea of doing 
 was sending them back to the ship, when the Jose 
 phine returned to Liverpool. 
 
 At eight o'clock, the port watch went on duty, with 
 Lieutenant Martyn as officer of the deck. The run 
 from the Calf of Man to Little Copeland Light was 
 about fifty miles ; but when the sun set, at about eight 
 o'clock, it was almost a dead calm. As "the darkness 
 gathered, however, the breeze freshened a little from 
 the westward, and the schooner logged from fo^ur to 
 six knots during the night. At eight bells, when the 
 morning watch was called, the Josephine, with a pilot 
 aboard, was off Belfast Lough, with the Copeland 
 Light on her weather bow. When the sun rose the 
 wind freshened, and before six she came to anchor off 
 the custom-house. 
 
 " I don't exactly see what we have come to Belfast 
 for," said Pelham. " We got the deserters last night." 
 
 " Don't you know? " asked Robinson, slyly. 
 
 " I'm sure I don't, unless it is to finish up the trial 
 trip." 
 
 " I suppose that is the reason why the cruise was 
 extended, but not the reason why we came to Belfast. 
 Miss Grace Arbuckle lives here." 
 
 "Exactly so!" laughed Pelham. "They say the 
 captain is really sweet in that quarter." 
 
 " I should be if I were in his place. Grace is as 
 pretty a girl as ever smiled on a sailor," added Henry 
 Mnrtyn. 
 
 " And Captain Kendall is worthy of the prettiest 
 girl that ever smiled on any fellow," said Terrill.
 
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 " The captain is sixteen isn't he? " continued Pel- 
 ham. 
 
 " Yes, in years ; but he is twenty-five in knowledge 
 and skill," replied Terrill. 
 
 " That's so ; and he's old enough to make love to 
 Grace Arbuckle, if he chose to do so." 
 
 " I think that's all nonsense ! " exclaimed Hum 
 phreys, who was the oldest student on board. " Cap 
 tain Kendall has no more idea of being in love with 
 that girl, or any other, than I have." 
 
 " I don't know about that," added Pelham. 
 
 " I suppose you don't," laughed Martyn. " When 
 you get in captain of the Josephine, you will want to 
 run her up into Loch Lomond, when you make your 
 trial trip." 
 
 Pelham was not above blushing, and he changed 
 the subject ; for he did not care to have Miss Maggie 
 McLaurin discussed by his companions. He had his 
 own private opinion about her, and it was not likely to 
 be changed by any remarks that might be made. We 
 must do these young gentlemen the justice to say that 
 not an improper word was spoken in their conversa 
 tion, and that their thought and speech were entirely 
 respectful. To such, the company of young ladies like 
 Grace Arbuckle, Maggie McLaurin, and others was 
 in the highest degree elevating and ennobling. Cau 
 tious and prudent as Mr. Lowington was in the care 
 of the boys, he encouraged among his pupils a respect 
 ful intimacy with well-bred young ladies on all proper 
 occasions. Probably he did not expect any " entan 
 gling alliances " to grow out of this intimacy, though if 
 such were the case, the result would not be unnatural
 
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 After breakfast, the ship's company were piped to 
 muster, and the captain informed them that liberty 
 would be given to all hands, except Lynch and Gross- 
 beck, until two in the afternoon, for the schooner would 
 sail for Liverpool on the ebb tide at three. He again 
 reminded them of what was expected of young gentle 
 men, and enjoined them to be punctual in their return. 
 
 The boats were hoisted out, and the officers and crew 
 landed at the nearest quay. Of course all of them 
 hastened to visit the families whose acquaintance they 
 had made during their former stay at the port. Paul 
 proceeded without delay to the residence of Mr. Ar- 
 buckle, on the Antrim Road. The servant who came 
 to the door told him the family were engaged, and could 
 not be seen ; Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle and Miss Grace 
 were going to Dublin that afternoon. Paul insisted 
 that his name should be sent in to Mr. Arbuckle ; and 
 it need hardly be said he was cordiallv welcomed. Mr. 
 Arbuckle was surprised to see him, and immediately 
 sent for his wife and daughter. 
 
 " Why, Mr. Kendall ! I'm delighted to see you ! " 
 exclaimed Grace, as, with childish impetuosity, she 
 rushed into the room and extended her hand to the 
 young officer. 
 
 " I assure you this is the greatest pleasure I have had 
 since we parted last," replied the gallant captain ; and 
 both of them blushed, for both were true to nature. 
 
 " How strange that you are here ! " added Grace. 
 " Is your ship in the harbor?" 
 
 " Not the ship ; but the Josephine is at anchor off the 
 custom-house." 
 
 " The Josephine ! What a love of a boat she must 
 de, according to your letter ! "
 
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 " She is a beauty ; and she logged twelve and a half 
 knots yesterday afternoon." 
 
 " Logged ! " repeated Grace, puzzled by the word. 
 
 " Sailed it, I mean. You must certainly see her," 
 added Paul. 
 
 " I am very sorry," interposed Mr. Arbuckle, " but 
 I fear we have no time. We leave for Liverpool to 
 day, by the way of Dublin." 
 
 " For Liverpool ! " exclaimed Paul. 
 
 " On our way to London," added the gentleman. 
 
 " We sail for Liverpool this afternoon," continued 
 Paul, musing and hesitating ; for he was not exactly 
 prepared to speak what was trembling for utterance on 
 his tongue. 
 
 " Indeed ! You make a short stay in Belfast this 
 time," said Mr. Arbuckle. 
 
 " We only came out to try the Josephine." 
 
 " Why, Mr. Kendall, you have two anchors on your 
 shoulders now ! " exclaimed Grace. 
 
 " Yes," answered Paul, blushing again. 
 
 " And five gold bands on your sleeves ! I remember 
 their meaning. You are the captain of the ship." 
 
 " Not of the ship. I am the commander of the 
 Josephine." 
 
 " Ah, Captain Kendall," said Mr. Arbuckle, smiling 
 and bowing, " I congratulate you on your advance 
 ment." 
 
 " Thank you, sir," replied Paul. " As you are 
 going to Liverpool, sir, might I " 
 
 Paul broke down. lie was too modest to utter the 
 thought in his mind. 
 
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 134 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " What were you going to say, Mr. Kendall ? " asked 
 Grace. 
 
 " Captain Kendall," said her father, correcting her. 
 
 " Captain Kendall ; excuse me," laughed Grace. 
 
 " I was about to say that you were going to Liver 
 pool ; " and Paul came to a dead halt again. 
 
 "You did say that, Mr. Captain Kendall," added 
 Grace, seeming to enjoy his embarassment. 
 
 " As you are going to Liverpool as the Josephine 
 is going to Liverpool as we are all going to Liver 
 pool " stammered Paul, " may I not ask the pleas 
 ure of your company on board our vessel," he added, 
 desperately ; and when he had extended the invitation 
 he tremblingly waited the reply. 
 
 " O papa ! " cried Grace, " that would be elegant ! 
 Do let us go with Mr. Kendall with Captain Ken 
 dall, I mean." 
 
 " I am very much obliged to you for your kind invi 
 tation, captain, and it would afford me very great 
 pleasure to accept it ; but I do not know what Mrs. 
 Arbuckle will think of it. She is not fond of the sea, 
 and is inclined to be sick," replied Mr. Arbuckle. 
 
 " Do go, mamma ! " pleaded Grace. 
 
 " 1 can give you as good accommodations as you 
 will find in the steamer, madam," added Paul. 
 
 The matter was considered for some time, and fin 
 ally, to the great delight of Grace, and wholly to please 
 her, the invitation was accepted. Paul promised to 
 send the gig to Queen's Bridge at half past two. The 
 lady and gentleman then begged to be excused, as they 
 were busy in making the preparations for their depart 
 ure, and Grace was left to entertain the visitor. He
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 135 
 
 declined an invitation to lunch, and remained only an 
 hour, during which time he told the history of the 
 Josephine, and related his experience, as a traveller, in 
 Liverpool. 
 
 Paul left the house more than delighted, and has 
 tened on board the Josephine, for he was happier on 
 board of her than in any other place, that which he 
 had just left alone excepted. He informed the head 
 steward that two ladies and a gentleman would take 
 passage in the schooner for Liverpool, and directed him 
 to put the professors' state-room in order, and to pro 
 cure such provisions from the city as the proper enter 
 tainment of the guests required. 
 
 Again the officers and crew of the Josephine demon 
 strated that it was safe to trust them, for they not only 
 returned at the time appointed, but also in good condi 
 tion. Not one of them appeared to have indulged in 
 the use of beer, or other improper beverages. The 
 first master was immediately sent up to Queen's Bridge 
 to bring off the passengers. Paul regretted that naval 
 etiquette and the dignity of his position did not permit 
 him to go himself. The pilot was on board, the fore 
 sail and mainsail were set, and the anchor hove up to 
 a short stay. 
 
 Before three o'clock the gig was alongside. The 
 " ladies' gangway," as the boys rather facetiously called 
 it, because a genuine sailor needed no such help to 
 board his ship, was rigged. It was a complete set of 
 stairs, with a landing at the top and bottom, so that a 
 person could go on deck as easily as he could enter a 
 house. The first and second lieutenants went to the 
 lower landing, and assisted the ladies out of the boat,
 
 136 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 while Captain Kendall stood at the upper one to receive 
 them. 
 
 " What a splendid ship ! " cried Grace, with childish 
 delight, when Paul took her hand to assist her to the 
 deck. 
 
 " She isn't a ship ; she's a schooner," laughed Paul ; 
 " but she's more beautiful than any ship that ever 
 floated could be." 
 
 " And you are the captain of her ! " exclaimed Grace, 
 as she retreated a step, and looked at him from head to 
 foot. 
 
 " I am the captain of her, and I am as proud as a 
 peacock." 
 
 " Well, I should think you would be." 
 
 " Get under way, Mr. Terrill, if you please," said 
 Paul to the first lieutenant. 
 
 " Who is Mr. Terrill ? " 
 
 " He is the executive officer, the one who gives all 
 the orders in detail." 
 
 "That's what Mr. Haven used to be." 
 
 " Yes ; and he* is captain of the Young America 
 now." 
 
 " Pray, where is Captain Gordon that pink of a 
 nice young man ? " asked Grace. 
 
 " He has gone up higher. He is the commander of 
 both vessels now. We call him Flag-officer Gordon." 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle had been duly welcomed 
 before. Their luggage was taken below, and they 
 were conducted to their state-room. The mother and 
 daughter were to occupy the professors' room, and the 
 father one of the spare berths. The passengers re 
 mained below but a few moments. They wished to see
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 137 
 
 the process of getting under way. Paul gave them 
 seats on the quarter-deck, and the officers and crew 
 all " put the best foot forward " on this interesting 
 occasion. The first lieutenant spoke up loud and 
 smart, the officers followed his example, and the sea 
 men seemed to be made of electrified wires. 
 
 Only one thing disturbed Paul ; the wind was due 
 west, which was fair for the voyage, but it was blow 
 ing half a gale, and he feared there would be too much 
 of it for his guests. It was more favorable for a quick 
 passage than for a comfortable one, though the pilot 
 said it had not blown long enough to kick up a heavy 
 sea in the Channel. When the tide turned he thought 
 they would have to take it. The guests applauded the 
 skilful handling of the vessel, as she stood down the 
 lough. Paul then conducted them to every part of 
 the vessel. 
 
 " What is that poor fellow shut up in the cage for?" 
 asked Grace, in a whisper, as she saw McLeish through 
 the bars of the brig. 
 
 " That poor fellow is shut up for mutiny, disobedi 
 ence, and an attempt to run away," laughed Paul. 
 " You must not pity him, for he does not deserve your 
 sympathy." 
 
 " How long has he been in there?" 
 
 " This is the fifth day of his confinement." 
 
 " Poor fellow ! Does he stay in that place all the 
 time?" 
 
 " Night and day." 
 
 " Do let him out?" pleaded Grace. 
 
 " Let him out ! Why, he threatened to burn the 
 vessel."
 
 138 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I dare say he didn't mean anything by it. He was 
 angry." 
 
 " But we must keep up the discipline of the vessel, 
 or we can't do anything." 
 
 " It is awful to keep a human being shut up in such 
 a cage as that," added Grace, with something like a 
 shudder. 
 
 " You must not interfere with the discipline of the 
 ship, Grace," interposed her father. 
 
 The fair girl was disposed to be a little wilful, as 
 fair girls will sometimes be, and she continued to beg 
 that the " poor creature " might be released from the 
 cage. 
 
 " Really, Miss Arbuckle, it is hard to resist your 
 appeal," replied Paul. 
 
 " But I don't wish you to resist it," she added. 
 
 " I am sorry to do so, but I must." 
 
 " You will not refuse me, Captain Kendall." 
 
 Paul enlarged and explained, but Grace insisted 
 upon begging the favor. He wanted to please her ; it 
 was exceedingly disagreeable for him to refuse, and, 
 we must add, exceedingly improper, for her to persist, 
 though it was all from pure pity and human kindness. 
 It seemed like a duty for her to plead, and it was just 
 as much a duty for him to decline. Her father and 
 mother were not in hearing while she pleaded her suit, 
 or they would have checked her ; and poor Paul was 
 placed just where thousands of others have been placed 
 tempted by a fair one to flinch from a difficult duty. 
 But he did not flinch ; he resisted even Grace's elo 
 quent appeal. 
 
 " Won't you let me see him and talk with him, Cap-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 139 
 
 tain Kendall?" asked she, when her other effort had 
 failed. 
 
 " See him ! Do you wish to go into the brig with 
 him?" asked Paul. 
 
 " Yes, I will go into the cage, if you will let me 
 talk with him. I only want to persuade him to be 
 good." 
 
 " You shall see him, if you wish it very much ; but 
 dinner is ready now ; " and the gallant young com 
 mander escorted his guests to the cabin.
 
 140 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 GRACE ARBUCKLE. 
 
 THE head steward had " spread himself" on the 
 dinner. Lynch had given him a hint, and he pre 
 pared for an extraordinary occasion. The captain 
 himself was astonished at the elaborate display of 
 dishes, but he contrived to look dignified, and to re 
 gard the whole thing as a matter of course and it 
 was a matter of courses, for the caterer had seven of 
 them. 
 
 The soup, fish, and roast and boiled, passed off well ; 
 but about the time the fourth course was brought on, 
 the Josephine reached Little Copeland Light, and the 
 sea, though not very heavy, began to interfere with the 
 dignity of the dishes, if not of the guests, and they 
 danced about the table in a very improper manner. 
 The other three courses were served rather hurriedly, 
 much to the disgust of the steward. The party at the 
 table consisted of the officers of the starboard watch, 
 the captain, and the guests. 
 
 It is doubtful whether Mrs. Arbuckle appreciated 
 the steward's display of dishes, not many of which she 
 tasted, and she was glad of an opportunity to return to 
 the deck, and inhale the fresh air. Probably she would 
 have preferred a much plainer repast, threatened as
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 14! 
 
 she was with the pangs of seasickness. As it would 
 not be fair to cheat the officers of the port watch out 
 of such a dinner, they were relieved from duty on deck, 
 and the steward was permitted to go through with his 
 programme again, and this time to the unanimous sat 
 isfaction of his party. 
 
 The pilot was discharged off the light, and the Jo 
 sephine was again in charge of her officers. She was 
 rushing through the water at a rapid rate, under jib, 
 foresail, and mainsail. Paul, though in no haste to 
 land his agreeable guests, wanted to make a quick pas 
 sage, and he ordered the gaff-topsail and flying-jib to 
 be set. As she still made good weather of it, and did 
 not seem to be crowded, the foretop-sail and then the 
 foretop-gallant-sail were shaken out. It was desirable 
 to learn the vessel's capacity for carrying sail. The 
 experiment was entirely satisfactory to the nautical 
 young gentlemen on board, more so than it was to the 
 passengers, whose nerves were a little disturbed by the 
 exciting movements of the vessel. Under such a press 
 of canvas in half a gale of wind, the Josephine heeled 
 over considerably, and the spray dashed wildly about 
 her sharp bow. 
 
 She behaved magnificently, however, and seemed to 
 fly over the waves. Mr. Arbuckle had some doubts, 
 for he was no sailor. Such a hissing, dashing, and 
 roaring he had never heard before, and he did not feel 
 quite safe. He saw Cleats, the boatswain, an old 
 man-of-war's-man, standing in the waist, and he final 
 ly edged up to him, as if by accident. 
 
 " We go very fast," said he to the old salt. 
 
 " Yes, sir ; the last time they heaved the log she was
 
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 making thirteen knots," replied the boatswain, po 
 litely. 
 ' " She tips badly," added Mr. Arbuckle. 
 
 " Tips ! Why, sir, she walks along like a lady on 
 Broadway. She's got her bearings, and she's as steady 
 as a judge on the bench. See how she tosses her head, 
 sir! Just like a lady in a ball-room, sir! She don't 
 put her nose into it, like a pig does into his grub ; she 
 lifts herself over it, sir. I've been in a good many ves 
 sels, sir, but I never was in one that took a sea so 
 easily." 
 
 "Don't you think it is very bad weather? " asked the 
 nervous passenger, as he glanced at the white caps to 
 windward. 
 
 " Bad weather? This is beautiful weather, sir. A 
 smashing breeze, and everything lively and comforta 
 ble. I crossed the Atlantic in this vessel, and we ran 
 through two piping blows, regular muzzlers. We lay 
 to under a close-reefed foresail for six hours ; but the 
 vessel didn't wink nor blink under it, and never took 
 a sea aboard in the whole of it hardly a bucket of 
 water at any time." 
 
 " But she was in charge of men then," suggested 
 Mr. Arbuckle. 
 
 " Men ! Well, sir, she's got a better crew on board 
 of her now than she ever had before. Why, bless you, 
 sir, that boy captain is fit to command a frigate. I 
 never saw a man-of-war handled any better than this 
 vessel is." 
 
 " Don't you think they are putting on too much 
 sail?" 
 
 "Just right, sir. I hope you are not afraid, sir?"
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 143 
 
 " Not for myself," replied the guest. " My wife and 
 daughter are on board." 
 
 " Well, sir, I must say I think they are safer here 
 than they are on shore," added Cleats, hitching up his 
 trousers. " For my part, I never feel quite safe when 
 I'm on the land. I never go into the streets without 
 being afraid I shall get run over ; and as for those rail 
 cars, I never get into one without shaking in my shoes. 
 A man isn't safe ashore, sir " and the boatswain 
 shook his head. " But aboard a good vessel, well 
 manned well, sir, a man isn't so safe anywhere else 
 as he is there." 
 
 " Then you do not think there is any danger? " asked 
 Mr. Arbuckle. 
 
 " Not a bit,. sir! " protested Cleats, with emphasis. 
 " You and the ladies were never so safe in your lives, 
 as you are at this moment, sir." 
 
 " I thank you for this assurance." 
 
 " Well, sir, I've only spoken the truth, according to 
 a sailor's creed ; and I don't see how anything can hap 
 pen to you, unless you take the trouble to jump over 
 board. Do you see that steamer ahead, sir? " 
 
 " I see her." 
 
 " Well, sir, we've been overhauling her ever since 
 the topsails were shaken out. She can read the name 
 on the stern of this vessel before eight bells." 
 
 "She can't sail faster than a steamer can she?" 
 asked the guest. 
 
 " In a calm, she can't ; and it depends a little on 
 how fast the steamer sails, but not much. With this 
 breeze we can beat almost any of these English steam 
 ers."
 
 144 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Mr. Arbuckle was not particularly interested in the 
 relative speed of the schooner and the steamer ; but 
 his conversation with the boatswain quieted his fears, 
 and he soon became accustomed to the dash of the 
 vessel. Mrs. Arbuckle was rather nervous, but Grace 
 enjoyed the wild scene. Paul had pointed out the 
 steamer ahead, and both of them were watching her. 
 The Josephine was gaining about two knots an hour 
 upon her, and the fair passenger was quite excited by 
 the race. They watched her for an hour, and as the 
 boatswain had prophesied, the schooner went by her 
 long before eight bells. 
 
 After the interest attending the race had subsided, 
 Grace again alluded to the " poor creature in the cage." 
 She was really troubled by his presumed sorrows and 
 sufferings. 
 
 "When may I see him, Captain Kendall?" she 
 asked. 
 
 " When you please," replied Paul. 
 
 " I will go to him now," said she, her eyes bright 
 ening. 
 
 " I am afraid he will convince you that I am an 
 awful monster," laughed Paul. 
 
 " O, no, captain ! " 
 
 " He is an ugly fellow : are you not afraid of him? " 
 
 "Not at all; take me to him, and perhaps I can 
 make a good young man of him." 
 
 " Perhaps you can ; and I hope you will." 
 
 " If he will promise to be good, you will let him out 
 won't you? " 
 
 " He will promise anything and everything. When 
 I am satisfied that he really means, to obey orders and 
 behave himself, I will release him."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 145 
 
 " Then take me to him." 
 
 " We will go into the cabin, and I will send for 
 him." 
 
 " Thank you." 
 
 Paul conducted her to the cabin. All the officers 
 were on deck, and the captain told the steward to pass 
 the word for Mr. Cleats. The boatswain came, the 
 keys of the brig were given to him, and he was direct 
 ed to bring McLeish into the cabin. 
 
 " You will let me talk with him alone won't you ? " 
 continued Grace. 
 
 " Alone ! I should not dare to have you alone with 
 him," replied Paul. 
 
 "I'm not afraid of him. He would not be him 
 self before you," persisted Grace. 
 
 " Very well ; I will go into my state-room, but Mr. 
 Cleats will remain." 
 
 " I will consent to that." 
 
 Paul retired to his room, and Mr. Cleats returned 
 with the prisoner, who seemed to be astonished at 
 being brought into the cabin to see a young lady who 
 was a stranger to him. 
 
 " Shall I leave you, miss?" asked the boatswain. 
 
 " No ; the captain said you were to remain," replied 
 Grace, as she bestowed a look of mingled pity and in 
 terest upon the ruffian face of McLeish. 
 
 The prisoner did not know what to make of it. He 
 looked confused, thrust his hands into his pockets, and 
 gazed upon the carpet at his feet. 
 
 " Pray sit down, Mr. McLeish," said she, pointing to 
 a stool in front of her. 
 
 McLeish dropped himself upon the seat.
 
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 "Won't you sit down, Mr. Cleats?" she added, to 
 the boatswain, who stood at the door with his cap 
 under his arm ; but the boatswain never sat down in 
 the cabin. 
 
 " You don't know how sad it made me feel when I 
 saw you through the bars of that cage," continued 
 Grace, as she drew her stool a little nearer to the culprit. 
 
 " If s no my fault," flouted McLeish. " The nobs 
 here are all Yankees, and I'm a Scotch boy. They 
 hate me, and that makes them insult me." 
 
 "Insult you ! I hope not," said Grace, mildly. 
 
 " That's just what they do," protested the culprit, 
 sourly. 
 
 "Won't you be very calm, Mr. McLeish? I per 
 suaded the captain to let me talk with you, for I pity 
 you very much, and I wish to do something for you." 
 
 The prisoner stared at her, as though he doubted 
 her interest in him ; but she was a very pretty girl, and 
 her expression was so tender and pitying that he could 
 not long doubt the reality of her sympathy. 
 
 " Won't you tell me now why you were put into that 
 cage ? " continued Grace. 
 
 " The brig, miss, if you please," interposed Cleats, 
 to whom it seemed like treason to miscall anything on 
 board the vessel. 
 
 " I mean the brig," added the fair questioner. 
 
 " I was first put in because I wanted to change my 
 berth," replied McLeish, in a pleasanter tone than he 
 had yet spoken. 
 
 " Indeed ! " 
 
 But Cleats, fully sustaining the discipline of the ves 
 sel, was so indignant at this partial statement, that he 
 let the truth all out in half a dozen words.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 147 
 
 " Why shouldn't I change my berth if I wanted to?" 
 said the prisoner. " The nob made me mad, and I 
 was bound to whip him." 
 
 " Then one of the nobs knocked him over," added 
 Cleats. 
 
 " But he didn't fight fair." 
 
 Even Grace could not help seeing that McLeish was 
 wholly in the wrong, and she frankly told him so. 
 
 " Then the captain robbed me of my money," 
 growled McLeish. " He took three pounds from me." 
 
 " But that is one of the rules of the ship," replied 
 Grace. " Mr. McLeish, I am so sorry to find that you 
 have done wrong ! but I pity you ever so much. Don't 
 you think it was wrong to make a quarrel, and resist 
 the officer?" 
 
 " I was mad." 
 
 " That is no excuse." 
 
 " They made me mad." 
 
 " Mr. Terrill treated you just as he did the others." 
 
 " He didn't knock any other fellow over." 
 
 " No other one resisted him." 
 
 " They were not MacGregors," replied the descend 
 ant of that famous name. 
 
 Grace laughed in spite of herself at the answer ; 
 but she " wrestled " with the culprit until she com 
 pelled him to acknowledge that he was wrong, and that 
 all he had done was wrong. 
 
 " Do you wish to be forgiven?" asked Grace, in the 
 gentlest and most winning tones. 
 
 " I don't know." 
 
 "You don't! " exclaimed she, fearing that she had 
 made no real progress in her work.
 
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 " Who's to forgive me ? " 
 
 " The captain and the first lieutenant, to be sure." 
 
 "Mr. Terrill?" 
 
 " Yes ; he is the one you resisted." 
 
 " But he knocked me down, and by the blood oi 
 the MacGregors, he shall pay dearly for that ! " said 
 McLeish, shaking his head. 
 
 " It was quite right for him to knock you down, 
 when you resisted. If you had not resisted, he would 
 not have knocked you down," added Grace, who was 
 clearly on the side of law and order ; and Cleats was 
 so pleased with her spirit that he could hardly contain 
 himself. 
 
 " He didn't fight fair, or he wouldn't have got the 
 better of me," retorted the culprit, resorting to his 
 usual clincher. 
 
 " That wasn't the reason why he got the better of 
 you, Mr. McLeish. The reason was, because he was 
 in the right, and you were in the wrong," responded 
 the gentle umpire. " Duty makes us strong, and God 
 gives the victory to the just cause. I have no doubt, 
 if you had been in the right, you would have got the 
 better of Mr. Terrill." 
 
 This was rather soothing to the damaged pride of 
 the prisoner, and perhaps the obvious truth of her 
 words made an impression on his mind and heart. 
 It was a plausible explanation of the disaster which 
 had befallen him in his encounter with the first lieu 
 tenant ; and it was pleasanter to believe that he had 
 made a mistake than to acknowledge even to himself 
 that Terrill on any and all occasions could whip him. 
 
 " I think you are right, miss," said he, rubbing his
 
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 curly head. " I believe I was in the wrong ; if I 
 hadn't been, Mr. Terrill could not have beaten me as 
 he did." 
 
 " Then you are willing to be forgiven," said Grace, 
 hopefully. 
 
 " I am," he replied with some hesitation. 
 
 " Are you willing to ask Mr. Terrill to forgive you?" 
 
 McLeish looked at her. Those bright eyes and that 
 winning face were irresistible. 
 
 " I am," said he. " Am I to be let off then ? " 
 
 " That's nothing to do with the matter. I don't 
 know. I can't promise anything," replied Grace. 
 " I wish you to apologize to Mr. Terrill, because it 
 is right for you to do so because you have done 
 wrong." 
 
 " For your sake I'll do it ! " exclaimed McLeish, 
 who could not resist her influence. 
 
 " No," interposed she, decidedly. " You shall not 
 do it for my sake, but for your own." 
 
 " I will ! I will ! " exclaimed the culprit, who now 
 seemed eager to apologize. 
 
 " Then go on deck, and do it," said she, with the 
 air of an empress. 
 
 He rose from his seat, and hastened up the steps, 
 closely followed by Cleats. The first lieutenant was 
 standing in the midst of a group of the officers. 
 He was astonished when he saw McLeish approach 
 ing him, and still more astonished when the prisoner 
 went through the motion of touching his cap, bowing 
 even humbly as he did so. 
 
 " I have come, Mr. Terrill, to say that I was all 
 wrong, and I humbly beg your pardon for resisting
 
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 you as I did," said McLeish. " I ask your forgive 
 ness, sir." 
 
 " I grant it with all my heart," said Terrill, as 
 promptly as a kind and noble heart could express 
 itself. " Here is my hand." 
 
 " I promise you I will do all you tal me," added 
 McLeish, taking the offered hand. " I hope you will 
 all forgive me for the wrong I have done," he con 
 tinued, glancing at the rest of the group. 
 
 " All right," replied Pelham. " You shall have fair 
 play." 
 
 " Thank you," said McLeish, as he bowed again 
 and retreated to the cabin, still followed by Cleats, 
 who was utterly amazed, though he afterwards said 
 he did not see how the beggar could help doing as he 
 did, with those bright eyes shining into his soul the 
 boatswain wrote sea-poetry sometimes. 
 
 "Well, Mr. Cleats, did he ask Mr. Terrill's par 
 don?" Grace inquired, as they returned to the cabin. 
 
 " Yes, miss ; and he did it handsomely too," re 
 plied the boatswain ; " and not only the first lieuten 
 ant's, but that of all the officers on deck." 
 
 " And I meant what I said," added McLeish, who 
 certainly appeared to be sincere. 
 
 Grace pleaded with him for duty's sake till he was 
 almost in tears, and then sent for the captain. Paul 
 was as dignified as an admiral when he returned. 
 
 " Captain Kendall, I've been all wrong, and I hope 
 to be forgiven for it," said McLeish. 
 
 Paul bit his lip. 
 
 " I only ask to be forgiven, and I'll bear any pun 
 ishment you put upon me," added the culprit.
 
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 " I freely forgive you, McLeish, and I assure you 
 that neither I nor any other officer on board has any 
 ill-will towards you," replied the captain ; " I only wish 
 you to do your duty." 
 
 " I will do it faithfully ; I'll no give you any more 
 trouble from this out," protested the prisoner. 
 
 " McLeish, your case shall be carefully considered. 
 If I conclude that it is safe to trust you, I will set you 
 at liberty ; but not at once. Mr. Cleats, you will 
 return him to the brig," added Captain Kendall. 
 
 " I hoped you would set him free now," said Grace, 
 when the boatswain and the prisoner had left the 
 cabin ; and her face glowed with excitement. 
 
 " I am not quite ready yet." 
 ' " I'm sure McLeish means well." 
 
 " We shall see," replied Paul, as he escorted Grace 
 to the deck. 
 
 The scene which had taken place on the quarter 
 deck had already been reported to all hands. The 
 captai'n and the first lieutenant conferred together in 
 Grace's presence, Mr. Terrill joined with her in plead 
 ing for the release of the prisoner, and Paul finally 
 gave the order to set him free. 
 
 " Let me go with you, Mr. Terrill," said Grace. 
 " I want to see him when he comes out." 
 
 " Certainly," replied the first lieutenant ; and he 
 conducted her to the steerage. 
 
 The- door of the brig was opened, and McLeish 
 directed to come out. 
 
 " By order of the captain, you are set at liberty," 
 said Terrill. 
 
 *' I will do my duty from this out," replied the cul-
 
 152 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 prit. " And, miss, you have softened my heart, and 
 I thank you for that, and for getting my liberty for me." 
 
 Grace talked to him for half an hour, and with 
 maidenly dignity pointed out to him the destiny of the 
 evil-doer. She told him he could never be happy 
 while he persisted in doing wrong, and could never 
 be satisfied with himself or any one else. 
 
 " You have saved me, miss ; you have made a good 
 young man of me, and I will die rather than go wrong 
 again," protested McLeish, impulsively. 
 
 " I shall hear from you often, McLeish, and I hope 
 nothing bad will be reported of you," added Grace, as 
 she returned to her parents on deck. 
 
 " How are you, McLeish ! " exclaimed Templeton, 
 as the discharged prisoner showed himself among the 
 crew. 
 
 " Don't tampt me, lads, don't tampt me, any of you, 
 for I have promised to be good, and I mean it," said 
 McLeish. 
 
 " Eh ! What's the matter with you ? " demanded 
 Templeton. " Have you become one of the chap 
 lain's lambs?" 
 
 " No, but I wish I were one upon my life I do, 
 for I would like to live in the same heaven with yon 
 young lady." 
 
 " Whew ! " whistled Templeton. 
 
 " O, I'm in airnest, lads ; I mean it all." 
 
 " He has fallen in love with Miss Arbuckle," laughed 
 one of the seamen. 
 
 " I've fallen in love with the goodness in her heart. 
 If there was ever an angel upon earth, she is the one. 
 Dinna laugh at me, lads. With the halp of God, I'll 
 be as 2094 a$ tb,9 Ipest of ye."
 
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 " Gone mad ! " sneered Templeton. " I say, 
 McLeish, there's a little unsettled matter between us 
 you remember." 
 
 " I don't mind." 
 
 "Don't you, indeed? You have a bad memory. 
 Didn't you want to fight me when we were on Loch 
 Lomond?" 
 
 " I'll no fight you now," replied McLeish, decidedly. 
 
 " Don't back out, man. We have liberty now, and 
 there is a good chance to find out who is the best 
 man." 
 
 " I'll no fight you." 
 
 " Have you become a coward? " 
 
 " Say what you just like, lads ; I'll keep to the right 
 path now." . 
 
 Certainly the convert promised well, and after some 
 of " our fellows " had bantered him for a while, 
 they let him alone. He did not yield to the tempta 
 tion which the taunts of the evil-minded suggested, and 
 then some of the better boys came to him, and cheered 
 and encouraged him. Grace had exerted a powerful 
 influence upon him, and if he persevered it would be 
 the best day's work a young lady ever did. 
 
 The darkness swept down upon the Josephine while 
 she was still leaping over the waves, making an aver 
 age of twelve knots. The passengers retired, and the 
 vigilant officers paced the deck, watching the com 
 pass, the sails, and the weather. Safely she sped on 
 her way amid the gloom and the waves, and at two 
 o'clock in the morning she was off the Bell Beacon, at 
 the mouth of Queen's Channel. Fortunately a pilot 
 was at hand, and while it was still dark the anchor of
 
 154 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 the Josephine was dropped within hail of the Young 
 America. 
 
 "What's the matter?" asked Mr. Arbuckle, as he 
 rushed on deck, roused from his slumbers by the rat 
 tling of the cable through the hawse-hole. 
 
 " Nothing, sir," replied Paul, cheerfully, for he was 
 on deck, having been called when the schooner came 
 up with the beacon. 
 
 " I thought we were going to the bottom. What 
 was all that fearful noise ? " 
 
 "Nothing but the cable, sir, as the anchor went 
 down." 
 
 " The anchor ! " exclaimed the passenger. " Have 
 you come to anchor?" 
 
 " Yes, sir." 
 
 " What for ? Is there a storm ? " 
 
 "No, sir; we have arrived at Liverpool, and have 
 concluded not to go any farther to-night," laughed the 
 young commander, who was in the highest of spirits. 
 
 " Liverpool ! Bless me, I did not expect to get to 
 Liverpool till to-morrow night. Pray what time is it? " 
 
 " Three o'clock, sir." 
 
 " You must have made a remarkable passage." 
 
 " Pretty fair, sir," replied Paul. " You wouldn't 
 have come much quicker by the mail line." 
 
 " Really, it's astonishing." 
 
 " The Josephine has done splendidly, as she will any 
 time, if you only give her wind enough. After all, one 
 might have been two or three days about it. I hope 
 the ladies have not been disturbed by the noise." 
 
 " I will see them, and tell them we are in Liverpool." 
 
 Mr. Arbuckle went below, and after everything had
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 155 
 
 been made snug on board, all hands, except an anchor 
 watch, turned in. All was quiet below, and the cap 
 tain was soon sound asleep. 
 
 Six o'clock was the hour in the morning at which 
 all hands were called, on board the Young America 
 arid her consort, and at that hour the pipe of the bont- 
 swain rang through the vessel. The deck was washed 
 down, the yards squared, and every rope was hauled 
 taut. By this time all hands were on deck, and the 
 passengers had come up to taste the morning air. 
 Grace was as fresh as a new-blown rose, and as 
 Paul looked at her, he was sorry he had made such a 
 quick passage. 
 
 The Young America lay within a short distance of 
 the Josephine, and after her morning work was done 
 the crew crowded into the rigging. Mr. Lowington 
 was seen on the top-gallant forecastle, and presently 
 all hands in the ship gave three rousing cheers, which 
 were returned by the Josephine. The professor's barge 
 was lowered ; the principal, surgeon, and chaplain em 
 barked in her, and were soon on the schooner's deck. 
 Of course Mr. Lowington was surprised to see Mr. 
 Arbuckle and his family on board ; but he was not the 
 less delighted to meet them.
 
 156 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE EXCURSION TO CHESTER. 
 
 WELL, Captain Kendall, how does the Josephine 
 work?" asked Air. Lowington, after he had 
 congratulated him upon his safe arrival. 
 
 " Splendidly, sir," replied Paul, with enthusiasm. 
 " We made the run from Belfast in twelve hours, beat 
 ing the steamer." 
 
 " I think you must have carried sail pretty well," 
 laughed the principal. 
 
 " I didn't strain her any, sir ; I kept her easy all the 
 time." 
 
 " I find no fault ; but you must remember that the 
 Josephine's spars are not the heaviest," added Mr. 
 Lowington. " I see that Lynch and Grossbeck are 
 among the crew, and that McLeish is at liberty." 
 
 " Yes, sir ; we overhauled that brig off the Isle of 
 Man, and our runaways were glad to get away from 
 her," replied Paul, as he proceeded to describe his 
 interview with the brig, and the escape of the 
 deserters. 
 
 k< I am sorry to have any one run away from us, but 
 I am not sorry this incident has occurred," replied the 
 principal, as Paul finished. " As long as the students 
 have but little money, they cannot go far on shore ; but
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 157 
 
 I have feared they would ship in other vessels. The 
 experience of Lynch and Grossbeck will be a whole 
 some lesson for them to ponder. The captain of the 
 Prince Alfred is evidently one of the worst specimens 
 of a British ship-master ; but, even if kindly treated, our 
 boys would not thrive as common sailors in the fore- 
 . castle of any merchantman. Salt junk and hard bread* 
 would disgust them in a few days, for they have been 
 used to roast beef a'nd plum puddings, to say nothing 
 of hard work, hard bunks, and hard companions. 
 You did not punish them?" 
 
 " I gave them no liberty at Belfast, as I did the oth 
 ers. I thought they had punished themselves about 
 enough," answered Paul. 
 
 " Use your own judgment," added the principal. 
 
 Paul then related the remarkable conversion of 
 McLeish, through the agency of Grace, which, in spite 
 of its serious nature, had some amusing features. The 
 idea of a young lady of fourteen, brought up in ease 
 and luxury, troubling herself about the reformation of 
 an obdurate sailor boy, was not in keeping with every 
 day experience ; but it was a very pleasant incident, 
 and Mr. Lowington expressed his high appreciation 
 of the character of Grace. 
 
 " What shall I do with McLeish now, sir? " asked 
 Paul. 
 
 " Do what you think proper." 
 
 " Shall I deprive him of his liberty?" 
 
 " As you deem it expedient," laughed the principal, 
 as he walked away. 
 
 Dr. Winstock was happy to see Paul again, and 
 walked through the vessel with him. The chaplain 
 
 4
 
 158 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 heard the story of McLeish, and endeavored to deep 
 en the impression which Grace had produced upon 
 his mind. As Mr. Arbuckle wished to proceed imme 
 diately to London, the gig was prepared for his accom 
 modation. 
 
 " I hope I shall see you again, Miss Arbuckle," said 
 Paul, as he escorted her to the gangway. 
 
 " We shall be at my uncle's, near London, for a 
 month," replied she, " and I shall depend upon seeing 
 you." 
 
 " We shall be in London by the first of next 
 month, I think." 
 
 " But you will write to me will you not?" 
 
 " With the greatest pleasure." 
 
 " And you will not fail to tell me all about Mr. 
 McLeish?" 
 
 " I will not." 
 
 Grace gave him her address in London, and he 
 handed her down into the boat, which pulled for 
 George's Landing Stage, in charge of Pelham. 
 
 " Everything seems to be lovely on board," said the 
 doctor, as he noticed that Paul's eye was following the 
 boat. " I hope you will not be homesick now that 
 young lady has gone." 
 
 " I have too much to do for that," replied Paul, with 
 a blush, as he glanced at the boat again. 
 
 " The millennium seems to have come on board of 
 your ship all rebellions, mutinies, and insurrections 
 repressed, and even McLeish suddenly converted from 
 a demon into an angel." 
 
 " I hope it will last," replied Paul. 
 
 " I think you will have to employ that young lady
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 159 
 
 to sail with you ; for she seems to have a powerful 
 influence over obdurate youngsters," laughed the sur 
 geon. "As you have no chaplain, you had better 
 engage her. She has conquered the rebels and the 
 captain too." 
 
 " I like her, doctor, and I won't deny it," added 
 Paul, desperately ; " and I don't like her any the less 
 for her interest in McLeish." 
 
 " It isn't always quite agreeable to have a young 
 lady interested in two young gentlemen at the same 
 time." 
 
 " Pooh, doctor ! It isn't anything of that kind." 
 
 " I suppose not ; but I dare say you would not like 
 to have her take too much interest in McLeish." 
 
 " The more the better," replied Paul, stoutly. 
 
 " I fear you will not always be so disinterested." 
 
 " I shall try to be, at any rate." 
 
 This bantering was interrupted by the principal, 
 who had business matters to adjust with the captain. 
 
 " How many petty officers and seamen have you 
 now, Captain Kendall?" 
 
 " Thirty-one, sir ; and I would like one more to 
 make even watches." 
 
 " You shall have him. That will give you eight 
 in each quarter watch," added Mr. Lowington, con 
 sulting his memorandum-book. " My agent in the 
 United States has received more than I supposed, and 
 forty arrived in the steamer. They are now on board 
 the ship. If I send you one, the ship will then have 
 her complement, lacking one, and you will have four 
 berths vacant in your steerage, and four in your cabin, 
 At this rate we shall soon want another vessel."
 
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 " Are the instructors for the Josephine on board of 
 the ship?" inquired Paul. 
 
 " They are, and very anxious to see the vessel in 
 which they are to sail. We will make these changes 
 at once, and send them on board, for \ve go to Ches 
 ter this afternoon." 
 
 The barge returned to the ship, and the first cutter 
 was sent off for the professors and the extra hand. 
 
 " The first cutter is coming, sir, with the flag-officer 
 on board," reported the fourth master to the captain, in 
 his state-room. 
 
 "Man the side," replied Paul, who had already 
 made arrangements for this important ceremony. 
 
 Twelve of the crew had been selected to act as side- 
 boys ; and when the first cutter reached the gangway, 
 they were drawn up in two lines, facing each other, 
 between which the superior officer was to pass. In 
 the navy the captain of the ship, whatever his rank, 
 or any higher officer, is always received in this man 
 ner when he comes on board of the ship. Paul took 
 his place on the quarter-deck, at the end of the double 
 line of side-boys, with his officers standing behind 
 him. 
 
 Flag-officer Gordon was the first to reach the deck ; 
 and as he passed between the side boys, they saluted 
 him by touching their caps. He was followed by the 
 professors, to whom the same courtesy was extended. 
 Paul raised his cap as the high and mighty flag-officer 
 of the squadron approached him, and all the lieuten 
 ants and masters did the same. 
 
 " Captain Gordon, I am happy to receive you on 
 board of the Josephine."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. l6l 
 
 "Thank you, Captain Kendall," replied the flag- 
 officer, who could hardly keep from laughing at the 
 stateliness of the ceremony, as he extended his hand. 
 " I congratulate you upon the brilliant success of your 
 first cruise. And between you and me, Paul," he 
 added in an under-tone, " I would rather be in your 
 boots than in my own." 
 
 " You can hoist your flag aboard my vessel if you 
 like, Charley," replied Paul, in his ear. 
 
 " Captain Kendall, allow me to introduce Professor 
 Hamblin," continued Gordon. 
 
 " I am happy to welcome you on board of the Jo 
 sephine, Mr. Hamblin," said Paul, taking the instruct 
 or by the hand, and raising his cap. " Gentlemen, 
 Professor Hamblin," he added to his officers. 
 
 " I am glad to meet yon," replied the learned man, 
 with dignity enough for the president of a college. 
 
 " Professor Stoute," added the flag-officer ; and he 
 Was received as his colleague had been. 
 
 " Glad to see you, boys. Wanted some more bal 
 last didn't you?" chuckled the fat professor, shak 
 ing his sides. " You seem to have a jolly time of it 
 here? " 
 
 " We try to be happy," answered Paul. 
 
 " I'll help you do that," continued the professor. 
 " Arn't you afraid I shall sink this little vessel?" 
 
 " O, no, sir," laughed the captain. 
 
 " Between us', Captain Kendall," added Mr. Stoute, 
 in a low tone, " Mr. Hamblin is as heavy again as I 
 am, though I weigh about twice as much as he does." 
 
 " Then you will just balance each other," replied 
 Paul. "Mr. Briskett." lie continued, calling the head
 
 162 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 steward, " I'll thank you to show the professors their 
 state-room." 
 
 " I must have my berth pretty near the middle oT 
 the vessel, or you will have to shift the ballast," added 
 Professor Stoute, shaking his fat sides again. " I used 
 to do duty as chain box for a small steamer on the 
 Sound." 
 
 All hands laughed, as much because they were 
 pleased, as because it was a duty to laugh at the 
 schoolmaster's jokes, and the head steward conducted 
 the " brains " of the vessel to the state-room prepared 
 for their reception. Professor Hamblin did not laugh. 
 He appeared to be displeased at the levity of his com 
 panion ; but the students had already made up their 
 minds to like the fat professor, and to leave the lean 
 one to circumstances. 
 
 " Captain Kendall, with the continued assurance of 
 my distinguished consideration, permit me to inform 
 you that I am the bearer of a note from the honored 
 principal of the Academy squadron to the gallant 
 captain of the Josephine," said Gordon, as they re 
 tired from the group of officers, and handed Paul a 
 note, laughing as though he regarded the honors paid 
 to a flag-officer as a stupendous joke. 
 
 " Thank you, Charley ; we will be boys now, if 
 you please," replied Paul, as he opened the note and 
 read, 
 
 " MY DEAR CAPTAIN KENDALL : To save the 
 time and trouble of drawing a lot for one hand, I have 
 concluded to send you a new scholar ; but he claims 
 to be a thorough sailor, and to know all the ropes in
 
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 the ship, besides having other accomplishments, which 
 will doubtless be developed in due time. 
 Truly yours, 
 
 R. LOWINGTON." 
 
 " Where's the new hand? " called he to one of the 
 masters. " Send him aft." 
 
 The new hand was conducted into the august pres 
 ence of the flag-officer and the captain. He was a tall, 
 thin young man of seventeen, with an incipient mus~ 
 tache on his upper lip, and an eye-glass suspended upon 
 the bridge of his nose. 
 
 "Why, Ben Duncan!" exclaimed Paul, forgetting 
 for the moment the dignity of his exalted position, and 
 grasping the hand of the new scholar. 
 
 " I am delighted to see you, Paul," replied the new 
 hand. " I was sadly disappointed when I went on 
 board of the ship to find you were no longer in her. 
 I suppose Mr. Lowington sent me here, though, to 
 oblige you rather than me, for I find the discipline is 
 very strict." 
 
 " It is quite as strict in the Josephine as in the 
 Young America," laughed Paul. 
 
 Duncan belonged to New York city, and had been 
 a schoolmate and friend of Paul at an academy in 
 Ohio. 
 
 "I must return to the ship, Captain Kendall," said 
 Gordon ; " and I'll trouble you for a boat. I only 
 came on board this time to introduce the professors." 
 
 " Come again, Charley," replied Paul. " I want 
 you on board when we sail." 
 
 "Thank you. I'll hoist my flag on board some 
 "day," laughed Gordon.
 
 164 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Man the side ! " shouted Paul. 
 
 " Confound the side ! " added the flag-officer, as the 
 captain escorted him to the lines of side boys, and 
 politely bowed him out of the schooner. 
 
 " I am glad to see you, Ben," continued Paul, as he 
 turned again to the new hand. " I had no idea that 
 you were coming." 
 
 u I teased my father, till at last he consented, very 
 much against my mother's wishes. This is a fine 
 little vessel you have, Paul." 
 
 " Splendid, Ben ! I am sorry you did not join the 
 academy before." 
 
 " I should if I had had my own way." 
 
 " You must work your way up, as the rest of us 
 have, for you can only be a common seaman now." 
 
 " I suppose not," sighed Duncan. " My father kept 
 a yacht, and I have sailed in her a great deal, so that 
 I know all about a vessel. I suppose there is a great 
 gulf between us now." 
 
 " There is considerable difference between a seaman 
 and a captain, but the offices are open to all who will 
 win them by hard work and good behavior. You are 
 a fine scholar, and your chances are good. The first 
 lieutenant will now give you your berth, and station 
 you." 
 
 The new seaman was handed over to the first lieu 
 tenant ; but before he had disappeared in the steerage, 
 some fellow called him " Specksy," on account of his 
 glasses, and the name clung to him. After he had 
 been berthed and stationed, all hands were mustered 
 for practice. Duncan took his place, and so did 
 McLeish, the former being at the outhaul of the fore-
 
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 sail and the foretop-gallant-sheets, and the latter at the 
 throat halyard of the mainsail and at the weather top 
 sail brace. 
 
 " Sheet home and hoist away ! " shouted the first 
 lieutenant, in the course of the exercise, when the 
 topsails were set. 
 
 " Mind your eye, Specksy ! " said Templeton, as 
 Duncan did not move. 
 
 " Foretop-gallant-sheets ! " shouted Pelham, on the 
 forecastle. 
 
 Duncan had read this term on his station bill, and 
 he leaped into the rigging, and was half way up the 
 fore shrouds before he could be stopped. 
 
 " Avast there, Specksy ! " cried the boys ; and every 
 body laughed at the misdirected zeal of the new hand. 
 
 " Duncan," Pelham called to him, " lay down ! " 
 
 Duncan descended, and stretched himself on the 
 deck at full length, achieving the manoeuvre with the 
 celerity of a cat, amid the most tumultuous roars of 
 laughter. 
 
 " What are you doing?" demanded Pelham, almost 
 choked with laughing. 
 
 " You told me to lie down," replied Duncan. 
 
 " No, I didn't ; I told you to lay down, which means 
 come down." 
 
 " I beg your pardon," replied the new hand, good- 
 naturedly. " The principal made us a speech yester 
 day on board of the ship, in which he admonished us 
 all to yield an unquestioning obedience to the com- 
 mands of a superior officer, even if we did not know 
 the purpose of the order," 
 
 " What were you going aloft for?' 1 asked Pelham.
 
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 " I am on the foretop-gallant-sheets," replied he. 
 
 " Then I think you had better keep off of them. 
 Where do you expect to find the top-gallant-sheets?" 
 
 " On the foretop-gallant-sail, I supposed." 
 
 " We don't usually go aloft to sheet home." 
 
 " O, don't you ! " exclaimed Duncan, as if surprised 
 that they did not. 
 
 " I thought you said you knew all about a vessel," 
 interposed the captain, laughing at the blunders and 
 the coolness of the new hand. 
 
 " So I do, Captain Kendall," replied Duncan, blandly ; 
 *' but the vessels with which I have had to do, did not 
 carry any topsails or top-gallant-sails. I am acquainted 
 with the nomenclature of the jib, foresail, and main 
 sail, and I am on familiar terms with the halyards, 
 tack and outhaul of a gaff-topsail ; but above and be 
 yond that my knowledge does not extend." 
 
 "Ah! then we will instruct you," added the cap 
 tain. 
 
 " Thank you ; I shall be under obligations for any 
 information you or your officers may impart to me." 
 
 " Mr. Pelham will give you the information you 
 need," said Paul, as he went aft again, choking with 
 laughter at the grandiloquent speech of his friend. 
 
 " Mr. Pelham, I am your most obedient servant," 
 added Duncan. 
 
 " Specksy 's a brick," said Templeton. 
 
 "Allow me to insinuate, in the most unaffected man 
 ner, that the foretop-gallant-sheets lead down the fore 
 mast, and are belayed at the fife-rail." 
 
 " I am under obligations to you for this lucid ex 
 planation, Mr. Pelham. If I may trouble you to
 
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 introduce me to the fife-rail, I shdll know it when I 
 see it." 
 
 " This is the fife-rail." 
 
 " I am obliged to you for the information." 
 
 " When the order is given, ' Sheet home, and hoist 
 away ! ' you will pull away on the sheet till it comes 
 home." 
 
 " Home at the end of the voyage ? " 
 
 " By no means ; till you have hauled the corner of 
 the sail down to the end of the yard ; or as long as 
 you can get anything by hauling." 
 
 " I will not fail to do so," replied Duncan, politely 
 touching his cap to the second master, and then seiz 
 ing the rope. 
 
 " Attention, all hands ! " shouted the first lieutenant, 
 through his trumpet. " Sheet home, and hoist 
 away ! " 
 
 Duncan pulled on his sheet till the corner came 
 home and the topgallant-yard went up to its place. 
 The sails were taken in, and then set again, and the 
 new hand proved that he was an apt scholar. When 
 the drill was finished, the ship's company were called 
 together in the waist, and the proposed visit to Chester 
 was announced. An allowance of two shillings was 
 paid to each student. An early dinner was taken, as 
 the train left Birkenhead at ten minutes before one. 
 That evening, after the return of the excursion, Paul 
 wrote an account of the trip in a letter to Grace, 
 which w r e shall transcribe, as much to assure the 
 reader that Paul did not put any soft nonsense into 
 the epistle, as to inform him what the party saw in 
 Chester.
 
 l68 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " DEAR Miss ARBUCKLE : As I have a state-room 
 all to myself now, you will find that I keep my prom- 
 ise rapidly, for I can write without interruption. After 
 you left this morning, the two new professors came on 
 board of the Josephine. One of them is as thin as the 
 fore royal-mast of the ship, and as stiff as the main 
 mast. He has not been seen to laugh yet, though lots 
 of funny things have happened. The other is so fat 
 that he jars about like a form of jelly, and he is as jolly 
 as he is fat. 
 
 "All hands went to Chester this afternoon all but 
 McLeish, Grossbeck, and Lynch, for I must keep up 
 my dignity by punishing them a little. If I don't, the 
 discipline of the Josephine will go to the dogs, and I 
 shall wear my two anchors in vain. If they take it 
 kindly this time, I shall punish them no more. So 
 far, McLeish has done splendidly, and is doing honor 
 to the fair reformer who converted him. Almost any 
 fellow would mend his ways with such an advocate. 
 
 " We landed in the boats at Birkenhead. This place 
 has grown almost as fast as some of our American 
 cities not quite. In thirty years it has increased 
 from an insignificant village with only twenty-six hun 
 dred people, to a city with fifty-two thousand. Dr. 
 Winstock told me this, as we marched up the street, 
 or I shouldn't have known anything about it ; and 
 aware how much you are in love with statistics [At 
 this point Paul wrote, 'I wish I were statistics,' but his 
 conscience smote him, and as the words were at the 
 top of a new page, he tore it off', and omitted the auda 
 cious phrase.] It has any quantity of docks, and they 
 say it vvill some time rival its neighbor on the opposite
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 169 
 
 side of the river. I don't think that will be till they 
 get a couple of dozen of Yankee ferry-boats to con 
 nect the two cities. 
 
 " To be candid, when I saw the ferry-boats that ply 
 between Liverpool and Birkenhead, I was ashamed to 
 own that my ancestors came from England. I wish 
 you could see one of the ferry-boats that run from 
 New York to Jersey City or to Brooklyn. These 
 Birkenhead ferry-boats are little old tubs of steamers, 
 just like any other boat, and not at all adapted to the 
 purpose. 
 
 " We went to Chester, and as this was the first time 
 I had seen the green fields of England, I looked with 
 all my eyes. It is a fine country, not very different 
 from the north of Ireland. After riding fifteen miles, 
 we arrived at Chester, which, you know, is a very old 
 city, and it looks as musty as my grandmother's house 
 in New Hampshire. The Romans founded the city 
 though it has been founded two or three times since, 
 and its Roman name was Deva, or ' the city on the 
 Dee.' It was rather inspiring to think that the regular 
 old Romans had walked about on the ground, and it 
 seemed to bring my Virgil and Sallust nearer home 
 to me. 
 
 " When the Roman legions left the city, the Saxons, 
 the Northmen, and the Danes destroyed it several times 
 William the Conqueror gave the city to a fellow whose 
 name I don't remember, with permission to add as 
 much more to it as he could win from the Welsh. He 
 was called the Earl Palatine ; and I have come to the 
 conclusion, after mature deliberation, that he built the 
 castle, though it has been built over again within a 
 15
 
 I7O RED CROSS, OR 
 
 hundred years or so. If he didn't build it, \\ho didi 
 Henry III. wiped put the Earl Palatine, and annexed 
 the earldom to the crown, which was very obliging 
 and disinterested of him. The Prince of Wales is 
 now Earl of Chester, as well as Baron of Renfrew,* 
 Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Cornwall, and I know 
 not what else. 
 
 " Chester certainly looks like a very old city. It 
 has a kind of crumbling look. The houses are very 
 odd, and have porticos extending over the sidewalk, 
 under which people travel. The place is a walled 
 town. I have heard about such things, but never saw 
 one before. This wall goes entirely round the city, 
 and we walked about two miles on it. It is from 
 twelve to forty feet high ; but as the town became too 
 small for the people, or the people too many for the 
 town, they built houses outside of the walls. There 
 are some towers on this wall, from one of which 
 Charles I. saw his army defeated by the Roundheads, 
 which, our guide said, did not make him feel good. 
 We were shown some stone work of the Romans, 
 which proved that they were good masons, or their 
 work would not have lasted so long. 
 
 " The cathedral is the great object of interest in 
 Chester. It is only about three or four hundred years 
 old, that is not much, but it is built of soft stone, 
 which crumbles away, and makes it look older than it 
 is. My friend Ben Duncan, who is a poet, went into 
 ecstasies over it, and said it was worth crossing the 
 Atlantic to see. If it is, I am glad he came. 
 
 " We also went to St. John's Church and St. Peter's 
 Church, and then through the castle. There is a bridge
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. I'Jl 
 
 over the Dee here, with a span of two hundred feet, 
 which the Romans did not build. As we all wanted 
 to see how a great lord lives, we walked out to Eaton 
 Hall, three miles from Chester, to the residence of the 
 Marquis of Westminster. We had to procure tickets 
 to get into it, and Mr. Lowington bought them of the 
 landlord of the Royal Hotel. There is more sense in 
 charging an admission fee in this case than in many 
 others, for I suppose the poor marquis would be over 
 run with people if he did not put the shilling stopper 
 on them ; and besides, the money is given to the poor. 
 We walked nearly all the way through the park, which 
 is covered with fine trees, till we came to the Hall, a 
 splendid building, in Gothic style, said to be the finest 
 dwelling-house in England not having seen them 
 all, I can't say. It is fitted up on a grand scale, with 
 lofty rooms, fit for a palace, I should judge. I should 
 think the marquis could keep comfortable, and have 
 room to turn round without knocking anybody over. 
 There are some fine pictures in the chapel, dining- 
 room and drawing-room Duncan almost had a fit 
 over them. I liked the two by Benjamin West the 
 best he was an American, you know. 
 
 " The Chester railway station is a big thing. I 
 never saw anything equal to it in the United States, 
 and that is confessing a great deal. America is a 
 great country, and if we could import two or three 
 of those Roman stations, and transport a few spare 
 cathedrals, Englishmen would think as much again 
 of it. 
 
 " We returned to Birkenhead about eight o'clock. 
 I have only room to add, that the boatswain says
 
 172 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 McLeish has behaved handsomely, and does not 
 grumble because he was deprived of his liberty. 
 That settles the case with him, and to-morrow he 
 shall go to Manchester with us. Remember me 
 kindly to your father and mother, and believe me 
 ever 
 
 Your sincere friend, 
 
 PAUL KENDALL." 

 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 173 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE NEW HAND. 
 
 ON Thursday an excursion was made by all hands 
 to Manchester, the great cotton manufacturing 
 city of England. It is situated on the Irwell, a branch 
 of the Mersey, and with Salford, on the other side of 
 the river, has a population of nearly four hundred 
 seventy-two thousand, which gives it the third rank 
 among the cities of the United Kingdom. Without 
 Salford, it ranks as the fourth, Glasgow being the 
 third. At first its manufactures were of woollen fab 
 ric ; but during the last hundred years, cotton has su 
 perseded it. It was not till the raw material was 
 obtained in such vast quantities from the United 
 States, that Manchester obtained its importance. 
 The invention of a Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whit 
 ney, who furnished a machine for separating the seeds 
 from the cotton, thus rendering the production of the 
 article practicable and profitable, was the foundation 
 of the growth of the city. 
 
 Manchester also contains immense manufactories 
 of iron, and is located in the midst of a coal region. 
 It is thirty-one miles from Liverpool, upon which it 
 depends for its supply of cotton. There are six rail 
 roads diverging from the city, as well as several canals. 
 
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 174 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 The students divided into parties, and explored the 
 city as much as they could in the brief period allowed 
 for the purpose. McLeish, agreeably to Captain Ken 
 dall's promise to Grace Arbuckle, was a member of 
 the party ; and so far as the officers were able to ob 
 serve his conduct, he behaved with the utmost pro 
 priety and discretion. Dr. Win stock had a letter of 
 introduction to Mr. Murdock, a wealthy mill-owner in 
 the city, which procured for him and his friends the 
 privilege of going through one of the immense cotton 
 factories. When Captain Kendall was presented to 
 Mr. Murdock, the gentleman seemed to be greatly 
 amused at Paul's " fine feathers," as he called them, 
 alluding to his shoulder-straps, sleeve-bands, and the 
 gold lace on his cap ; but the dignity and self-posses 
 sion of the young commander carried him through 
 the interview, and won the respect of the mill-owner. 
 
 "What is the meaning of it all?" asked Mr. Mur- 
 .dock of the surgeon as they were walking over to the 
 mill they were to visit. " Upon my life, these young 
 gentlemen swell up like lords of the admiralty. Are 
 they sailors, do you say ? " 
 
 " Captain Kendall is commander of the Josephine," 
 replied the doctor ; " and I assure you he is not only a 
 gentleman, but he is a better officer and seaman than 
 one half the men who go in command of vessels." 
 
 Dr. Winstock explained the system of the Academy 
 Ship and her consort, which strongly excited the 
 interest of the English gentleman, and he asked a 
 great many questions. The doctor answered them 
 all, and described the voyage of the Josephine to 
 Belfast.
 
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 " But is it possible the young man took the vessel to 
 Belfast alone ?" asked Mr. Murdoch, who did not live 
 by the sea, and his wonder was correspondingly in 
 creased. 
 
 " Certainly he did. I should be entirely willing to 
 cross the Atlantic, or even go round the world, in a 
 ship under his charge." 
 
 Mr. Murdock was veiy attentive and respectful to 
 Paul after this conversation. The mill was explored, 
 and the party, by urgent invitation, went to the house 
 of the proprietor, who insisted upon giving them some 
 refreshment. They were presently ushered . into an 
 elegant and spacious dining-room, and after an in 
 troduction to the gentleman's family, partook of the 
 lunch. Their, host had a son of sixteen, who ap 
 peared to regard the young officers with great interest, 
 and bestowed much attention upon them. 
 
 " Have a glass of sherry, Captain Kendall," said 
 Spenser Murdock, filling a couple of glasses. 
 
 " You must excuse me," replied Paul, pleasantly ; 
 '" I never drink wine ; we are not allowed to take it." 
 
 "Ah! teetotalers are you?" laughed the j-oung 
 man, as he drained the glass without a rebuke, or even 
 a question, from his father. 
 
 Mr. Murdock then proposed to drink the health of 
 Captain Kendall ; but the doctor interposed, and ex 
 plained the rules to which the ship's company were 
 subjected. Spenser conducted the young officers to 
 the drawing-room, where one of the ladies sang and 
 played for them, leaving Dr. Winstock with the host 
 in the dining-room. 
 
 " I have been thinking a great deal about your in-
 
 17" RED CROSS, OR 
 
 stitution, Dr. Winstock," said the host. " It seems to 
 me to be really a very fine thing to give health and 
 vigor, as well as a good education, to our young 
 men." 
 
 " It has been very successful thus far," added the 
 surgeon. 
 
 " You will be in Europe a year or two, I dare 
 say." 
 
 " A year, at least ; perhaps two years." 
 
 " There is that son of mine he is not a bad boy, 
 but he has given me a deal of trouble. Is it possible 
 for him to be entered in your Academy Ship ? " 
 
 " I am unable to say, sir." 
 
 " Spenser isn't a bad boy," repeated Mr. Murdock ; 
 " he's only wild." 
 
 " That's the case with most of our boys," laughed 
 the doctor, who thought it quite probable that Mr 
 Spenser Murdock was another McLeish ; for fathers 
 and mothers find it hard to believe that their own sons 
 are ever bad boys. 
 
 " I sent him to Rugby ; but the rules were so strict 
 there, the poor boy could not stand it. Then I had a 
 private teacher for him ; but he walloped his tutor one 
 day when they had a difference," laughed the father, 
 who seemed to think this was to the boy's credit. 
 
 " I fear our discipline would be too strict for the 
 young man," suggested Dr. Winstock. 
 
 " Perhaps so ; but you have so much excitement in 
 going from place to place, and knocking about the sea, 
 that there is always something to interest the boy. I 
 hope you understand my meaning. Spenser is not a 
 bad bay ; he has a good heart, but he has given
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES 177 
 
 me a deal of uneasiness. A few weeks ago the lad 
 broke into the counting-room of the mill, and took 
 fifty pounds from the drawer ; but it was only done for 
 the fun of the thing. The poor boy has plenty of 
 money ; indeed, he gave the half of what he took to 
 a miserable fellow who was distrained for his rent. 
 He has a good heart, the lad has ; but he is wild." 
 
 The surgeon thought he must be wild ; and he took 
 the liberty to hint that Spenser was spoiled by over 
 indulgence. 
 
 " Not at all ; I am quite strict with him," protested 
 the father. " I don't permit him to be out of the 
 house* after twelve at night, and I allow him only 
 twenty pounds a month for pocket money. I in 
 creased it from ten to twenty pounds after he broke 
 into the counting-room, to keep him from indulging 
 in such wild freaks." 
 
 "And I suppose, if he should break into your 
 counting-room again, you would raise it from twenty 
 to forty pounds," laughed Dr. Winstock. 
 
 " Possibly not. I told him his conduct was dishon 
 orable and disgraceful, unworthy the character of a 
 gentleman." 
 
 " Did you tell him it was immoral and criminal?" 
 
 " No, I didn't tell him that. You see the lad only 
 did it for fun, as a mere freak, and I did not wish 
 to injure his self-respect." 
 
 On all other topics Mr. Murdock was a sensible 
 man. He controlled his mill with judgment and skill, 
 and governed his operatives with stern decision. If 
 a poor girl stole half a pound of raw cotton, she was 
 at least discharged. It was not regarded as a " freak "
 
 178 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 on her part. Dr. Winstock was grateful to his host 
 for his kindness, and invited him to visit the ship at 
 her moorings in the Mersey ; and the invitation was 
 eagerly accepted. 
 
 The excursion party returned to Liverpool, and 
 went on board of the vessels. The next morning, 
 the classes were organized, and the regular studies 
 pursued. In the forenoon, Mr. Murdock and his son 
 visited the ship, and both of them were delighted with 
 everything they saw. Mr. Lowington explained the 
 operation of his system, and invited the guests to visit 
 the Josephine after dinner. 
 
 " I fear the discipline of the ship would not suit 
 your son," said the principal, when the guest had ap 
 plied for Spenser's admission. 
 
 " He seems to be delighted with everything he 
 sees," added Mr. Murdock. 
 
 " To oblige a friend in Greenock, I took his son ,3n 
 board. The young man has seen a great deal of 
 trouble, and spent most of his time in the brig." 
 
 " The brig ! What is that, sii ? " 
 
 " The ship's prison." 
 
 " A prison ! " exclaimed Mr. Murdock, exhibiting 
 some alarm. 
 
 "A place of confinement. Of course we do not 
 have stone walls on board a vessel. But I am happy 
 to say that the lad I mention is now doing well." 
 
 When the session of the school was closed, the 
 brig was exhibited to the guests. Wilton and Monroe 
 were still its occupants. Mr. Murdock did not like 
 the looks of the place. He thought it would be de 
 grading to be committed to the prison, and damage
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 179 
 
 the self-respect of the prisoner. Mr. Lowington re 
 garded the culprit's evil deeds as more degrading than 
 the punishment, and insisted that discipline should be 
 vindicated, that the self-respect of others might not 
 be damaged. 
 
 Mr. Murdock dined with the faculty, and Spenser 
 with the officers in the after cabin. As McLeish had 
 thought when he was a passenger, it was all very 
 fine, and the English boy was quite as anxious as the 
 Scotch lad had been to be enrolled among the stu 
 dents. The principal did not wish to receive him ; 
 there had been trouble enough with McLeish. The 
 barge was ordered to the gangway to convey the 
 guests to the Josephine, and they were received by 
 Paul, who with pride and pleasure exhibited the ves 
 sel to them. 
 
 " Mr. Murdock, we sail for Whitehaven this after 
 noon," said the principal. " I should be happy to 
 have you accompany us." 
 
 " I should be delighted to do so ! " exclaimed the 
 guest. 
 
 " You can return by railway at your own pleasure." 
 
 " Thank you. I am so interested in your institu 
 tion, that I cannot deny myself the satisfaction ' of 
 seeing more of it. We must have something of this 
 kind in England." 
 
 " I am glad that the idea meets with your approba 
 tion." 
 
 " Unless I can prevail upon you to receive my son, 
 I shall attempt to get up an Academy Ship at Liver 
 pool." 
 
 " Then perhaps it would be better for me to decline
 
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 your application. You may not think so well of the 
 plan after you have seen more of it, for I assure you 
 it is not all sunshine. These young men are generally 
 the sons of wealthy people, and many of them have 
 acquired bad habits by the indulgence of their par 
 ents." 
 
 " Doubtless," added Mr. Murdock, rather coldly. 
 
 " Some of them require severe discipline." 
 
 " But this vessel, you tell me, is controlled by the 
 boys," added Mr. Murdock, glancing at Paul, who 
 stood near talking with Spenser. 
 
 " This is an experiment ; but Captain Kendall is 
 really in command of her, though he may call upon 
 me for help if he requires it. Now, sir, you and your 
 son may take passage in the Josephine, or in the 
 Young America, as your prefer." 
 
 " If you please, Mr. Lowington, we will go in the 
 small vessel. Do you think it entirely safe ? " 
 
 " If I did not, I should not permit the young gen 
 tlemen to handle her," laughed the principal. 
 
 " Then I will go in her, for I am anxious to see the 
 young captain handle his vessel." 
 
 Mr. Lowington returned to the ship, leaving his 
 guests and the surgeon, who had decided to go in the 
 Josephine, on board. In half an hour the signal for 
 getting ready to sail was hoisted on board of the ship. 
 The boatswain's whistle sounded, and all hands sprang 
 to their stations. The sails were shaken out, the an 
 chor hove short, and the pilot came on board. 
 
 Mr. Murdock and his son were filled with aston 
 ishment and delight as they witnessed these evolutions 
 of seamanship.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. l8l 
 
 " I must certainly join this vessel," said Spenser to 
 his father. 
 
 "Could you endure the discipline?" 
 
 " It would be fun," replied the young gentleman, 
 with enthusiasm. 
 
 " Would you like to pull those ropes?" 
 
 " I would ; I should enjoy it." 
 
 " Or be sent up where those lads are?" added Mr. 
 Mui'dock, pointing to the seamen on the top-gallant 
 yard. 
 
 " That would be the best part of it." 
 
 " You can't be an officer, you know, and live in the 
 cabin." 
 
 " I would rather be a seaman." 
 
 " That would make you an inferior, and you must 
 obey the orders givfin you." 
 
 " I could do that." 
 
 " And when you go on shore, only a couple of shil 
 lings or so would be allowed for pocket money." 
 
 " But I can have my own money." 
 
 " No ; your money would all be taken from you, and 
 doled out to you in shillings." > 
 
 " I should'nt like that, but I could endure it, if the 
 rest do ; though I don't think I should be without money 
 a great while," added the hopeful young gentleman, 
 significantly. " I have been talking with some of the 
 lads, and I think they understand the matter." 
 
 " But you must do your duty if you join, and you 
 may be captain, or something of that sort." 
 
 " I intend to do my duty ; but there can be no harm 
 in having my spending money." 
 
 " They take it from you when you join." 
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 l82 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Let them ; but of course you would send me my 
 allowance every month in a letter." 
 
 " I think my friend Mr. Lowington is needlessly 
 strict in this matter," added the father, in a tone which 
 seemed to indorse his son's idea that this stringent 
 regulation might be evaded. 
 
 " Now she goes ! " exclaimed Spenser, as the jib was 
 run up, and the Josephine swung round. " I'll never 
 be anything but a sailor." 
 
 " Perhaps you will change your mind before morn 
 ing," said Paul, who happened to come near enough 
 to hear the remark. 
 
 " O, no ! " 
 
 " Were you ever at sea ? " 
 
 " Never, except I crossed to Dublin once, and went 
 in a steamer from Liverpool to Bristol ; but I know I 
 should like it." 
 
 " Would you like it to be turned out of your berth 
 in a dark and stormy night, and then be sent aloft to 
 reef topsails?" 
 
 " I think it would be fun." 
 
 " If you think so, probably it will be," added the 
 captain, who always put a cheerful face upon hard and 
 disagreeable work. 
 
 The Young America had tripped her anchor a little 
 before the Josephine, and went down the river ahead 
 of her. It was evident to the officers of the schooner 
 that the ship was not as well handled as usual ; but this 
 was not to be expected, for one half of her crew were 
 green hands, who had been drilled but a couple of 
 days, and did not know the difference between a top 
 mast and the cook's galley. The " greenies," as they
 
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 were called on board, had been mixed in with the 
 " old salts," so that there was always an experienced 
 hand near to tell them what to do. 
 
 Off the entrance to Queen's Channel, the pilots 
 were discharged, and the two vessels headed north by 
 east, by the compass. The wind was moderate from 
 the west-north-west, and the ship and the schooner 
 went off close-hauled. It was soon evident that the 
 Josephine was beating her consort, and could easily 
 go a point closer to the wind while the Young Amer 
 ica's topsails were almost shaking. 
 
 Anything that looked like a race produced an ex 
 citement on board. The Josephine carried all sail as 
 well as the ship, and though she was a good mile astern 
 when the course was given out off the Bell Buoy, in an 
 hour she was within hail of her. 
 
 " We shall pass her," said Terrill to the captain. 
 
 " Yes, pass her, but go to leeward of her," replied 
 Paul. 
 
 " We 1 can lay a point closer, and easily go by her to 
 windward." 
 
 " That would not be respectful. We must not take 
 the wind out of the flag-officer's sails." 
 
 "Why don't she go faster?" asked Spenser Mur- 
 dock. 
 
 " She can't when she is close-hauled," replied Paul. 
 " With the wind on her quarter, or abeam, she is a 
 very fast sailer, and perhaps would beat us." 
 
 The schooner was kept away a little, and in a short 
 time passed the ship. When the two vessels were 
 abeam of each other, the students ran up into the rig 
 ging and cheered lustily.
 
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 " Take in the foretop-gallant-sail, Mr. Terrill," said 
 Captain Kendall, when the Josephine was a mile 
 ahead of the ship. 
 
 " What is that for, Captain Kendall? " asked Spen 
 ser Murdock. 
 
 "I don't wish to run away from the ship," replied 
 Paul. 
 
 " Man the foretop-gallant clewlines and buntlines ! 
 Stand by the braces ! " shouted the first lieutenant when 
 the hands had been piped. 
 
 " All ready, sir," reported the third lieutenant. 
 
 " Clear away the sheets ! Clew up ! " added Terrill. 
 
 The sheets by which the corners of the top-gallant- 
 sail were hauled down to the end of the topsail-yard 
 were let go ; the corners of the sail were then hauled 
 up to the yard by the clewlines, and the middle, or 
 bunt, of the sail by the buntlines. 
 
 " Settle away the topsail-halyards ! " continued the 
 executive officer. " Square away ! " 
 
 By the halyards the yard was lowered down on the 
 cap, and as it descended, the spar was hauled round 
 square by the braces. 
 
 " Lay aloft and furl the foretop-gallant-sail ! " said 
 Terrill ; and the hands who were stationed on the top 
 gallant-yard went aloft, rolled up the sail, and wound 
 the gaskets around it. 
 
 As the schooner seemed to be still gaining, the main 
 gaff-topsail was taken in, and then the flying-jib. 
 Finally the foresail was lowered, and then the Young 
 America gained rapidly upon her. As she approached 
 the Josephine, nine cheers were given, and the fore 
 sail was reset. With the foretop-gallant-sail, gaff
 
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 topsail, and flying-jib furled, the speed of the two 
 ressels was about equal. 
 
 Paul entertained his guests handsomely in the cabin, 
 and made them quite at home. Spenser Murdock 
 was seasick in the evening, and was obliged to turn in 
 at an early hour, in spite of his assertion that he meant 
 to stay on deck all night, and see how the vessel was 
 handled. When he turned out in the morning, there 
 was a pilot on board, and the Josephine was follow 
 ing the Young America into the harbor of Whiteha- 
 ven ; and in due time both of them were moored in 
 the second basin. 
 
 " Perhaps you have had sea enough," said Paul to 
 the younger passenger, when he had given the order 
 to furl everything. " People who are sick don't like 
 the sea." 
 
 " But I like it ; I dare say I shouldn't be sick again," 
 replied Spenser, who was as chipper as a bird, now 
 that the ugly motion of the sea had ceased. 
 
 " Do you really think you would like to be a sailor? " 
 
 " I do ; I know I should ; and I'm going to sea at all 
 events. If your principal won't take me, I shall run 
 away to sea on my own account." 
 
 " Don't do that. You will find that life in the fore 
 castle of a ship, to one who has lived in a parlor, as you 
 have, will be as bad as anything can be." 
 
 " I dare say ; but I hope I shall be permitted to join 
 this vessel." 
 
 "Not this one; if Mr. Lowington receives you, it 
 will be in the Young America. We have none but 
 old sailors here," added Paul. 
 
 " It's all the same to me." 
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 1 86 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 The gig was lowered, and sent to the ship with Dr. 
 Winstock and the passengers. Mr. Murdock renewed 
 his application to the principal on behalf of his son. 
 He was even more anxious than at first to procure his 
 admission, for he had been strongly impressed by the 
 system of discipline he had observed in the squadron. 
 The appeal was successful at last, and Spenser was 
 delighted beyond measure when informed that he had 
 been admitted. He was in haste to put on his uni 
 form, and commence his career as a sailor. 
 
 A suit of clothes was served out to him by one of 
 the pursers, berth 66 was assigned to him, and he was 
 sent below to make the change in his dress. A sea 
 man pointed out his quarters, and then hastened on 
 deck, where all hands were busy observing the new 
 scene just opened to them. Spenser's berth was in the 
 second tier from the cabin bulkhead, and the entrance 
 was directly opposite the brig. The stewards were 
 preparing the tables for breakfast ; but there was no 
 one else in the steerage. 
 
 The new hand made haste to clothe himself in his 
 sea togs ; and when he had done so, he felt as smart as 
 though he had just donned a new suit from London. 
 He went out into the passage-way, and surveyed his 
 person in the small looking-glass which hung by the 
 bull's-eye. He looked " salt," and felt so. Satisfied 
 with his appearance, he picked up his shore suit, and 
 took the contents of the pockets from them before ty 
 ing them up in a bundle. His monthly allowance had 
 been paid to him a few days before, and he had not 
 yet spent any of it ; he even had two sovereigns and 
 some silver left from the previous payment.
 
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 He stood in the passage-way with the four bank 
 notes and the specie in his hand, thinking what he 
 should do with them. To him almost the only disa 
 greeable thing in the discipline of the ship was being 
 deprived of his pocket money. He had talked with 
 several of the crew of the Josephine, one of whom 
 told him how McLeish had managed ; and he had 
 decided before his admission to save his funds, espe 
 cially as his father was ready to " wink " at his plan, 
 and even supply him with his usual allowance. It 
 would not do for him to say he had no money when 
 asked by the principal, for he believed that a lie was 
 dishonorable, rather than immoral, and was to be 
 avoided when possible without the sacrifice of too 
 much personal comfort. 
 
 While he was trying to make up his mind whether 
 to put the notes in his stocking, as McLeish had done, 
 or hide them in the berth, he became conscious that a 
 couple of pairs of eyes were fixed upon him. Wilton 
 and Monroe were both staring at him between the 
 pales' of the brig. 
 
 " I say, Greeny," called Wilton, in a low tone. 
 
 " Whom do you call Greeny ? " demanded Mur 
 dock, displeased by the appellation. 
 
 " Hush ! " added Wilton. " Come over here." 
 
 The new hand went over to the door of the prison. 
 
 " What do you mean by calling me Greeny?" he 
 continued. 
 
 " That's a title of respect we give to new fellows 
 no harm intended. How are you off for stamps? " 
 
 "Stamps?" 
 
 "Have you any money?"
 
 1 88 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 "I have twenty-two pounds, and some odd sil 
 ver. What's that to you?" said Murdock, still hold 
 ing his money in his hand. 
 
 " They'll take it all away from you, and that will 
 be the last you will see of it," replied Wilton. 
 
 " I don't want to give it up. I'm going to hide it in 
 my berth." 
 
 "That's played out; the officers will search your 
 berth after you have put everything to rights." 
 
 " I'll put it in my stocking, then." 
 
 " One of the lambs will see it when you turn in, and 
 blow on you." 
 
 "Who are the lambs?" 
 
 " The lambs of the chaplain's fold." 
 
 " I don't understand you." 
 
 " Those that feed on water gruel and pipe to prayers 
 twice a day in their berths. Give me the money, and 
 I'll take care of it for you." 
 
 " You ! What are you in there for?" 
 
 " For resistance to tyranny ; because we wouldn't 
 stand it to have our money taken from us." 
 
 "Is that all?" 
 
 " That's all. Hush ! some one's coming down to 
 fish your trousers pockets." 
 
 " Take it then," said Murdock, hastily, as he thrust 
 the four five-pound notes through the bars, keeping 
 back the specie. 
 
 One of the students came down the steps, went to 
 his berth for something, and then returned to the deck, 
 followed by Murdock. 
 
 " Well, he is a Greeny," said Wilton, as he glanced 
 at the bills when the owner had gone.
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE CONSPIRATORS IN THE BRIG. 
 
 HAVING satisfactorily disposed of the young 
 man who had given him so much uneasiness, 
 Mr. Murdock left the ship, and hastened back to Man 
 chester. Probably he did not even yet suspect that 
 his own weak indulgence had spoiled the boy ; but 
 now he was in no danger of breaking into the count 
 ing-room, and stealing fifty pounds " for fun." 
 
 " Monroe, it's about time for us to get out of this 
 place," said Wilton, after Murdock had gone on deck, 
 and he had concealed the bank notes in his clothing. 
 
 " That's what I have been saying for ten days," re 
 plied Monroe. 
 
 " But I'm not going to make any confessions, or beg 
 anybody's pardon, as Gus Pelham did." 
 
 " Then you may stay here for the rest of the cruise." 
 
 " I can get out of this place any time when I'm 
 ready," added Wilton, compressing his lips, and shak* 
 ing his head, to signify both his decision and his ability 
 to do what he said. 
 
 " Why don't you do it, then?" 
 
 " Because I'm not ready. I don't want to go ashore 
 without any money. I've got some now, and I'm go 
 ing to turn my attention in that direction."
 
 IpO RED CROSS, OR 
 
 "Well, what are you going to do?" asked Monroe, 
 doubtfully. 
 
 " I'm going to get out when I'm ready." 
 
 "What's the use of talking? You can't get out ! "' 
 sneered Monroe, who had not much confidence in the 
 boasts of his companion in confinement. 
 
 " Yes, I can." 
 
 "How?" 
 
 " It's easy enough ; but I'm going to pay off old 
 Lowington, for keeping me here so long, about the 
 time I take my leave 'of the ship." 
 
 " You get out ! I've heard you brag before." 
 
 " Brag ! Do you think I can't do what I say I 
 can?" 
 
 " I do think so. You wouldn't have staid in here 
 ten days if you could have got out." 
 
 " I told you I wasn't going without any money," 
 replied Wilton, impatiently. " Now I have some 
 money, I'm going to do something." 
 
 "You don't mean to use that spoony's money do 
 you?" 
 
 " I'm going to borrow it of him for a brief period. 
 I haven't any doubt there is money for you and me 
 now in London. When we get it, we will pay off 
 this fellow." 
 
 "Just as you paid that twenty pounds you borrowed 
 from the safe ! " 
 
 " See here, Ike Monroe ; if you say another word 
 about that, there'll be a row within a thousand miles 
 of where we are. What's the use of talking about 
 that any more ? I mean to pay it, and I shall pay it ; 
 you may bet your life on that."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 19! 
 
 " Well, drop that then," added Monroe, who was 
 not disposed to quarrel with any one, even on a matter 
 of principle. " You don't tell how you intend to get 
 out?" 
 
 " I don't mean to tell you till you show more spirit 
 than you have yet," said Wilton, reproachfully. 
 
 " That's cool ! Haven't I staid in this place ten days 
 just to please you ? " 
 
 " Yes ; and if it hadn't been for me, you would 
 have gone down on your knees to old Lowington, and 
 thro'wn yourself into the arms of the chaplain, and 
 piped to prayers with Shuffles and the rest of the 
 lambs. It was all I could do to keep your back stiff. 
 Now you want to brag of your spirit." 
 
 " I haven't bragged of it ; but I have stood by you 
 from the beginning, even when you made a fool of 
 yourself." 
 
 " Where would you have been, if I hadn't put you 
 through? Who helped you out of the policeman's 
 hands in Edinburgh?" 
 
 " And who helped me into the policeman's hands 
 in London?" retorted Monroe, galled by the boasts 
 of his friend. 
 
 "Never mind, Ike Monroe ; it's no use to help you 
 out of trouble. There is nothing like gratitude in you." 
 
 " You have helped me into trouble twice where you 
 have helped me ou-t once." 
 
 " No matter ; that's the way you treat a fellow after 
 he has done everything for you," said Wilton, as he 
 walked over to the farther corner of the prison, and 
 sat down on his stool. 
 
 "What's the use of getting mad, Wilt? If you are
 
 192 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 going to keep punching me in this way, I shall make 
 my peace with Lowington, and get out as soon as 
 I can." 
 
 " You want to quarrel with me." 
 
 " 1 don't want to quarrel. It's you." 
 
 " No, it isn't I ! You keep twitting me about the 
 safe, or something of that sort," growled Wilton. " I 
 wish I had a good fellow in here with me. I'd end 
 up this old Academy Ship in less than ten days." 
 
 " What would you do ? " 
 
 " Do you suppose I would tell such a milk-and-water 
 sop as you are what I'm going to do ? There is no more 
 backbone in you than there is in a fish-worm." 
 
 Monroe felt reproved for his want of firmness. He 
 was silent for a time, and the crew were piped down 
 to breakfast. There was no chance to say anything 
 more till afternoon, when all hands were on deck drill 
 ing in seamanship. By that time both of them had 
 cooled oft', and the kettle ceased to call the pot black. 
 There had been half a dozen such disputes between 
 them since they had been in the brig. Monroe, 
 though he had a strong desire to escape from confine 
 ment, had not the courage to send for the principal, 
 and declare that he was sorry for what he had done, 
 and was willing to do better. The taunts and jeers 
 of his friend were too much for him. 
 
 " I don't see how you can get out," said he, after 
 they had talked conciliation a few minutes. 
 
 " If you sav you are willing to stand by me till the 
 end, I will tell you," replied Wilton. 
 
 " Of course I shall stand by you, whether you tell 
 me or not," added Monroe, magnanimously.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 193 
 
 " Now you speak like a good fellow ! " said Wilton, 
 warmly. " Didn't you see Adler talking with me yes 
 terday ? " 
 
 " Yes." 
 
 " Well, we fixed it then." 
 
 "Fixed what?" asked Monroe, when the other 
 paused. 
 
 " Fixed the plan to get out, of course," replied 
 Wilton, in a whisper. 
 
 "What is it?" demanded Monroe, his curiosity 
 excited. 
 
 " When I am ready, he is to bring me the carpen 
 ter's saw, and nothing can be easier than to saw off 
 one of these pales." 
 
 " I suppose not ; but how long do you think you 
 could saw before some one would hear the noise ? " 
 
 " O, you are a blockhead, if there ever was one ! " 
 exclaimed Wilton. 
 
 " Perhaps I am ; but if my head is a block, you 
 can't saw it with that kind of nonsense." 
 
 " Do you think I'm going to saw it off when all 
 hands are in the steerage ? " 
 
 " There's always somebody round." 
 
 " When the fellows go ashore, the boatswain, car 
 penter, and sailmaker always go with them to take 
 ?are of the boats don't they ? " 
 
 " They do ; and while they are gone, all the boats 
 are gone are they not?" 
 
 " Well, they are generally ; but I can manage that. 
 I haven't told you a quarter part of my plan yet?" 
 
 " Tell the rest of it then." 
 
 " I will, if you will keep your mouth shut and hear
 
 194 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 what I have to say. When I go next time, I'm going 
 to take twenty or thirty of the fellows with me." 
 
 Monroe laughed at this extensive arrangement. 
 
 " Don't you believe it?" asked Wilton, taking a slip 
 of paper from his pocket. " Look at that ! " 
 
 Monroe did look at it. On the paper were written 
 in pencil the names of twenty-five of the crews of the 
 Young America and the Josephine. But this list failed 
 to convince the sceptic of the practicability of the plan 
 suggested. 
 
 "Do you see that?" demanded Wilton, in a tone 
 of triumph, as though he had established his position. 
 
 " I see it ; but any fellow could write out a list of 
 names." 
 
 " No, he couldn't not such a list of names as that. 
 This thing has racked my brains for a week, and it 
 means something, I tell you." 
 
 " Well, what does it mean ? " asked Monroe, whose 
 curiosity was wrought up to a high pitch. 
 
 " I have been thinking this thing over while you lay 
 there whining." 
 
 " You didn't say anything to me about it." 
 
 " I know that. I wasn't going to talk about it till I 
 got things ready ; besides, I wanted some money to 
 work with. It took some gumption, I can tell you, 
 to make out that list. It isn't every fellow that could 
 have done it." 
 
 " I don't see it." 
 
 "Don't you? Have you looked at those names? 
 Have you considered who and what they are?" 
 
 " They are all our fellows," replied Monroe, glan 
 cing at the list again.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 195 
 
 " That's so ; every fellow whose name is on that 
 paper is just as true as steel. I've worked over that 
 list, Ike Monroe, you'd better believe. I weighed 
 every fellow in the balance, and if there was a doubt 
 against him, I threw him over. I rejected the names 
 of a good many fellows." 
 
 " I have no doubt there was a good deal of talent 
 displayed in getting up that list. I'm willing to grant 
 that it is a big thing." 
 
 " It is a big thing." 
 
 "What of it?" asked Monroe. "That's what I 
 want to know." 
 
 " Those are the fellows who are going with us 
 when we leave the ship," replied Wilton, in a whis 
 per, as though he was afraid the crew, who were at 
 that moment in the rigging, would hear him. 
 
 " How do you know they will go? " 
 
 " Don't I know the fellows?" 
 
 " Have you spoken to them about it?" 
 
 " Of course I haven't yet." 
 
 "That's like one of your plans, Wilt!" laughed 
 Monroe ; " you have got it all fixed before a single 
 fellow has agreed to take part in it ! " 
 
 "Don't I tell you I know the fellows?" 
 
 " So do I know them ; but I am not so sure they 
 will be willing to run away from the ship with you." 
 
 " You are an ignoramus, Ike Wilton ! You don't 
 know beans ! " 
 
 " I know peas, if I don't know beans," replied 
 Monroe, alluding to former experiences. 
 
 " You haven't heard half the plan, and begin to 
 condemn it."
 
 196 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " If you have anything more that is half as hopeful 
 as what you have told me, I don't believe you will set 
 the river afire with your nonsense." 
 
 " Do I understand you to say that you won't go in 
 with me ? " demanded Wilton, chilled by the cold 
 water which had been thrown upon his scheme. 
 
 "Don't understand anything of the sort! I have 
 staid in the brig ten days to please you, and now I 
 will do anything, if it is to knock the bottom out of 
 the ship, with you." 
 
 " That sounds more like it," replied Wilton, molli 
 fied by this unequivocal manifestation of devotion on 
 the part of his friend. 
 
 " I am willing to go it blind, capture the ship, set 
 her on fire, or anything else," added Monroe, desper 
 ately. 
 
 He had been bullied into resisting his convictions 
 of duty, and though he had exaggerated his devotion 
 to the cause of his friend, he was doubtless ready to 
 do anything rather than endure his painful confine 
 ment much longer. 
 
 " All right, my boy ! " added Wilton with enthu 
 siasm. " You are just where I want you to be, and 
 just where I am. Do you think I am going to join 
 the lambs and submit to Lowington's tyranny? Not 
 if I know it ! " 
 
 " Bully for you ! " replied Monroe, whose spirit 
 seemed to have improved under the cunning casti- 
 gation of his fellow-prisoner. " I am ready to stand 
 by you, whether you go up to the moon or down to 
 the bottom of the sea. Now tell me what it's all 
 about?"
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 197 
 
 " When we leave, we shall go off in the Josephine," 
 whispered Wilton, giving due emphasis and dramatic 
 effect to the astounding revelation. 
 
 Monroe was not much astonished, and would not 
 have been if his companion had told him he intended 
 to make his escape in one of the mail steamers in 
 the harbor, to be chartered or captured for that pur 
 pose. While he was desperate enough to undertake 
 anything, he had not much confidence in Wilton's 
 strategy or ingenuity. He was willing to do the worst 
 thing that could be done, and then abide the conse 
 quences. 
 
 "What do you think of that?" demanded Wilton, 
 with a sensational flourish, when his friend relapsed 
 into silence. 
 
 " Put it through ! I'm with you." 
 
 " I suppose you think it can't be done," added Wil 
 ton, who courted a little opposition in order to present 
 his case with due effect. 
 
 " I don't know but it can," said Monroe, looking 
 over the paper which was still in his hand. " I don't 
 see the name of any officer on this paper." 
 
 " Not an officer ; and you won't, while I have any 
 thing to do with it. They put on too many airs. It 
 was the quarrel between Shuffles and Pelham which 
 used up the Chain League." 
 
 " Half of these fellows are in the Josephine." 
 
 " I know they are ; and that's just where I want 
 them. Now I will tell you just how the whole thing 
 is to be done," continued Wilton, dropping his voice 
 to a whisper. " Half the fellows are in the ship, and 
 half in the consort. On a certain day fixed upon 
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 1 98 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 beforehand, all these fellows will cut up so as to lose 
 their liberty when the ship's company go ashore. 
 Adler says they never use but two or three of the Jo 
 sephine's boats, and there is always one at the davits. 
 Just as soon as all hands have left, the fellows on 
 board of the schooner will send the boat to the ship, 
 and we will all go on board of the consort, slip the 
 cable, make sail, and be off. Don't you see how easy 
 it is all done ? " 
 
 " I see how easy it's all done in words," replied 
 Monroe. " Who's to be captain of the Josephine 
 when you get oft"? I suppose you are, though." 
 
 " No ; I don't understand navigation well enough. 
 Tom Perth is to be captain. Every fellow likes him, 
 and he can handle a vessel as well as Haven or any 
 of the rest of the officers." 
 
 " Perth's a good fellow." 
 
 " It's plain enough ; there is a heap of work to do 
 before this thing can be carried out, and we may not 
 get away for a month yet." 
 
 " A month ! Do you mean to stay in the brig a 
 month?" 
 
 " I don't know ; I think Lowington will get tired of 
 keeping us here." 
 
 " I'm tired of it now, and I don't care about wait 
 ing for him to get tired of it. We can operate twice 
 as well outside as we can in this cage." 
 
 " I don't know about that. Don't be in a hurry, 
 Ike, till we see how the land lies." 
 
 That night Wilton contrived to have a talk with 
 Adler, to whom he revealed his plan, after obtaining 
 a pledge of secrecy.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 199 
 
 " I'm ready, for one," replied Adler, with refreshing 
 promptness ; " but so far as the Josephines are con 
 cerned, it's all in your eye." 
 
 " No, it isn't," protested Wilton. 
 
 " But I tell you it is. You have been shut up in the 
 brig ever since the fellows went aboard the Josephine, 
 and you haven't cut your eye-teeth yet. If I had a 
 place in the consort, I wouldn't get into any scrape 
 not I. The fellows are treated like gentlemen there. 
 They don't have any one to watch them when they go 
 on shore. It's no use of talking about the Josephines ; 
 they won't have anything to do with the affair ; and 
 if you say a word to any fellow, he'll blow on you, as 
 sure as your name 's Wilton." 
 
 " Do you mean to tell me that Lynch, Grossbeck, 
 and Sanborn won't go in with me ? " demanded 
 Wilton. 
 
 " I know they won't ; and I wouldn't, if I were in 
 their place. All the old fellows on board would join 
 the lambs to-day if they could get into the Josephine 
 by it. Mind your eye ! There comes an officer." 
 
 Adler edged oft' out of sight till the danger was 
 passed, and then returned to his former position be 
 tween the pantry and the brig, where he could easily 
 get out of sight when any one appeared. 
 
 " I'll tell you what to do, Wilt," said he ; and it 
 was evident that he had been thinking of the hopeful 
 scheme during his brief absence. 
 
 "Well, what?" asked Wilton, who, however, was 
 not prepossessed in favor of any scheme in opposition 
 to his own. 
 
 " Make up your cre\v out of the ship."
 
 2OO RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " But half the best fellows have gone into the 
 schooner." 
 
 " Don't you believe it. There are lots of tip-top 
 fellows among the greenies." 
 
 " I don't know them." 
 
 " I do ; and I know a dozen of them who will go 
 in with me into anything I say." 
 
 " They are not sailors." 
 
 " They will be before long ; but the old fellows can 
 go aloft, and these greenies can pull and haul well 
 enough. Don't you let a word be said to any of the 
 Josephines. You might as well take the speaking- 
 trumpet, and blow it into Lowington's ears. All the 
 old fellows are mad because they can't go in the Jose 
 phine ; and because McLeish and a chap with specs 
 on were sent to her, instead of a couple of us. Who's 
 going to be captain of the Josephine when you get 
 her?" 
 
 " We can't get her on your plan," growled Wilton. 
 
 " Yes, you can. If twenty-five or thirty of our fel 
 lows cut up so as to be left on board when the fellows 
 go ashore, one of the boats will be left at the davits. 
 I could manage this thing first-rate myself." 
 
 " I suppose you could ; every fellow thinks he could. 
 Where's Tommy Perth?" 
 
 " On deck." 
 
 "Tell him I want to talk with him will you, 
 Adler?" 
 
 "Just so I see," replied Adler, with a knowing 
 Ipok. " He is to be the captain." 
 
 " That's so. What do you think of it?" 
 
 " First-rate ! All the fellows like Tom Perth."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 2OI 
 
 It is to be regretted that Perth, who was really a 
 clever fellow, but without any balance-wheel, con 
 sented to see the reprobate of the ship. In the shades 
 of the evening, he managed to have a long chat with 
 Wilton ; and flattered by the honor of being captain 
 of the Josephine, which was to be conferred upon him, 
 accepted the leadership in the wild scheme, and 
 promised to " organize victory " out of the available 
 material. Wilton appointed himself first officer. 
 
 " See here, Perth," said Wilton, when the details 
 of the scheme had been well considered ; " we don't 
 want any more Chain Leagues, or anything of that -sort 
 not if we know it." 
 
 " It don't answer to tell all you know," added Perth. 
 
 " No ; you and I must work the thing up our 
 selves." 
 
 " How do you mean ? " 
 
 " No fellow shall be allowed to know who joins us 
 and who don't, till the last moment. We can fix 
 twenty-five or thirty of them, and when we are all 
 ready, we will tell them what to do." 
 
 "That's the idea," added Perth. Then a fellow 
 won't know who belongs and who don't. I'll go to 
 work on it this very night, and I'll ring in three befora 
 we turn in." 
 
 " Look out, and don't make a mess of it," said Wil 
 ton, earnestly. " There are four of us in now ; about 
 twenty more will do the business." 
 
 " Don't be afraid of me," replied Perth, as he 
 walked away to commence his mission of mischief. 
 
 " I think we might as well repent now, and get out 
 of the brig," said Wilton, jocosely, when Perth had 
 left him.
 
 2O2 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " That's what I've been saying before," replied 
 Monroe. 
 
 " I don't know about it, though. I'm afraid you 
 would back down if you got out." 
 
 " Not I." 
 
 " To-morrow will be Sunday, and we will see what 
 can be done. I suppose, if we should join the lambs, 
 and pipe to prayers with Shuffles, we shouldn't be 
 half so likely to be suspected, if any of the officers 
 should happen to hear a word or two that was not 
 intended for their ears." 
 
 There are degrees of evil as well as of good. Some 
 bad boys are worse than other bad boys. Even Mon 
 roe, whose standard of morality was low, revolted at 
 the idea, needlessly, and for the success of a vicious 
 scheme, of putting on the guise of the hypocrite. He 
 was not willing to be a " lamb." 
 
 Sunday passed away in the usual manner. All the 
 Josephine's officers and crew attended divine service 
 on board the ship in the forenoon and in the after 
 noon. It was a stormy day, but no one was allowed 
 to be absent. On Monday, after the lessons were dis 
 posed of, the crew of the ship were drilled till dark in 
 reefing, furling, and making sail ; and by this time 
 the " greenies " were tolei'ably perfect in the parts 
 assigned them in the station bills. They were prac 
 tised at " all hands," by watches, and by quarter 
 watches, but hardly any of them knew anything more 
 than was absolutely required of them. They could 
 not do the work of others. One whose station in 
 tacking, was at the main clew-garnets and main tack, 
 would not have known what to do if told to let go the
 
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 head-bowlines, as any of the old sailors would. It 
 would be months before the green hands would know 
 all the ropes in the ship. 
 
 On Tuesday, after recitations, Mr. Lowington ex 
 plained to the ship's company of the Young America 
 the object of coming to Whitehaven, which was to 
 devote a couple of days to the Lake District of Eng 
 land ; and for this purpose two days of vacation 
 would be granted. He told them that Mr. McLaurin, 
 the kind friend who had rendered them so much 
 service in Scotland, had made arrangements which 
 would enable them to see most of the objects of inter 
 est in this attractive region in the time allowed for the 
 purpose. 
 
 Orders had been sent to Captain Kendall, and by 
 two o'clock the students were in the railroad station 
 at Whitehaven, seated in the carriages. Very much 
 to the disappointment of Monroe, his companion in 
 the brig decided not to make any confession or prom 
 ises, and they were compelled to remain in confine 
 ment until the return of the excursion. Lynch and 
 Grossbeck were also compelled to stay on board the 
 Josephine, in charge of the boatswain. The party 
 were in their usual high spirits, and in about two 
 hours arrived at Keswick, which is situated in the 
 northern portion of the Lake District. At this place 
 they found Mr. McLaurin, who was delighted to meet 
 Pelham again, and immediately conducted him to his 
 room at the hotel where his family were. 
 
 Keswick is a small town, situated near the foot of 
 Skiddaw, a lofty mountain, and not far from Derwent- 
 water, one of the beautiful lakes of this region. The
 
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 town itself tvas of no interest, but Mr. McLaurin con* 
 ducted the students to Greta Hall, a little out of the 
 town, which was the home of Southey, the poet. It 
 was a plain building, with vines running over it, but 
 nothing very fine about it. The library of the poet, 
 and the room in which he died, were shown, and the 
 party wandered about the grounds. A fine view of 
 the lake was obtained near Castle Rigg. It is a 
 beaiitiful sheet of water, surrounded by embosoming 
 mountains, with several little islets, which made it a 
 pleasant scene for the eye to look upon. 
 
 Following the eastern shore of the lake, the party, 
 after a walk of three miles, arrived at the Falls of 
 Lodore, about which Southey wrote his " gleaming and 
 streaming and steaming and beaming" poem, very 
 melodious and very amusing, which makes the reader 
 feel something like a waterfall. The heavy rains of 
 Sunday had given the fall its best appearance, though 
 at low water the cataract is quite tame. The stream 
 which forms it flows between two lofty crags, and its 
 whole descent is about one hundred and fifty feet. At 
 the village of Rossthwait, where Mr. McLaurin had 
 provided accommodations, the travellers spent the 
 night. 
 
 The next morning the company started to walk to 
 Ullswater, the second in size of the British lakes, 
 though it is only nine miles in length by one in width. 
 On the way they " climbed the dark brow of the 
 mighty Helvellyn," which the tragic death of Charles 
 Gough, a young man who was killed by falling from 
 a precipice, and watched over by his faithful dogs for 
 three months, has made memorable in the poems
 
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 of Scott and others. The Red Tarn, Striding Edge, 
 and Catchedecam were familiar names, because the 
 poem of the Scottish bard was in the school readers. 
 
 The excursion party arrived at Patterdale, where 
 they dined, and embarked in a small steamer for a 
 trip through Ullswater, a lake surrounded by moun 
 tains, and abounding in picturesque scenery. On 
 their return to Patterdale, they proceeded in wagons 
 to Grasmere, the home and the burial-place of Words 
 worth, the " poet of nature," and where he often had 
 with him Southey, Coleridge, Scott, Lamb, and Wil 
 son. The lakes Rydal Mere and Grasmere were 
 pretty sheets of water, and everything seemed to be 
 sanctified by the spirit of the gentle bard, who had 
 celebrated every spot in the vicinity by his pen and 
 his presence. 
 
 But only a couple of hours could be spent in this 
 delightful locality, and the wagons moved on to the 
 Low- Wood Hotel, on the banks of Windermere, the 
 largest of the English lakes. The next morning the 
 officers and seamen were photographed in a group on 
 the lawn in front of the hotel, by an artist wh was 
 taking views of this picturesque region. 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 CAPTAIN KENDALL'S STATE-ROOM. 
 
 THE last day of the excursion was spent in ex 
 ploring the scenery of Lake Windennere, which, 
 though tame and wanting in the grandeur of the other 
 lakes the students had visited, was soft and pleasing 
 in its aspect. The region is a type of that in the 
 vicinity of Lake Champlain, though the lakes are not 
 so large, nor the mountains so high, in the former as 
 in the latter. 
 
 Small steamboats ply on Lake Windermere, and the 
 boys had an opportunity to visit every part of it not 
 a difficult task to be accomplished in a single day, as 
 the lake is only ten miles long, and not more than a 
 mile in breadth. The lakes of the district are all of 
 this character, their width being small compared with 
 their length. Lake George is thirty-six miles in length, 
 but does not exceed four in breadth. The length of 
 Lake Champlain is rather more than ten times its 
 width, while the same is true of numerous sheets of 
 watei hi the Adirondack region. 
 
 Scawfell is the highest mountain in the Lake Dis 
 trict, or in England. It is three thousand two hundred 
 and eight feet high. Mount Marcy, the highest moun 
 tain in the lake district of New York, is five thousand
 
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 four hundred and sixty feet. If we could plant Whit- 
 tier, Longfellow, and Bryant in the Adirondack coun 
 try, we should have a " lake district" in New York more 
 sublime than any England can boast ; for it needs only 
 the inspiration of the poets to invest it with the needed 
 charm. In natural attractions, the country west of 
 Lake Champlain is far richer than the much-lauded 
 Lake District of England, beautiful and picturesque 
 as is the latter. 
 
 Lake Windermere is principally fed by two streams 
 the Rothay and the Brathay, both of which rise in 
 the mountains, and unite their waters about half a 
 mile before they enter the lake. Windermere is full 
 of trout and charr, the latter being the English smelt. 
 In the spawning season both of these fish start in com 
 pany to go up stream, and swim together up the river 
 till they reach the junction of the two mountain streams, 
 where they separate, all the trout going up the Rothay, 
 and all the charr up the Brathay.- Not a trout or a 
 smelt makes a mistake, and goes the wrong way. This 
 singular exhibition of instinct has excited a great deal 
 of attention. 
 
 During the excursion, the students had abundant 
 opportunities to wander about in small parties, and 
 from the time the boys began their tramp down the 
 shores of Derwentwater, Tom Perth had been busy 
 enlisting the recruits who were to take part in the 
 capture of the Josephine. Those of " our fellows " 
 who were left in the ship were in a state of discon 
 tent. They were jealous of the privileges which had 
 been accorded to the crew of the Josephine, and the 
 rebel captain found the commission he had accepted
 
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 easier than he supposed. When the party took their 
 places in the train at Windermere to return to White- 
 haven, he had actually pledged nine of the old sailors 
 to act with him. This number, added to those already 
 secured, made up half the required crew. 
 
 At eight in the evening all hands were on board 
 their vessels, tired enough to sleep without an opiate. 
 The next afternooon was spent in visiting the coal 
 mines of Whitehaven, which are said to be among 
 the most extraordinary in the world. They are nine 
 hundred and sixty feet in depth, and extend for some 
 distance under the bed of the sea, and beneath the 
 town. There are five entrances to these mines on the 
 north and south sides of the place, which are called 
 Bearmouths ; but the descent through them is so 
 gradual that horses can go down. .In driving times 
 as many as fifteen hundred tons of coal are taken 
 every day from the mines. 
 
 After recitation on Saturday, the signal for sailing 
 was hoisted at the peak of the Young America. The 
 pilots came on board, and by two o'clock the ship and 
 her consort were standing out of the harbor, bound 
 for Holyhead. The wind was light, and at dark the 
 little squadron had not made forty miles. In the 
 night a dense fog settled down upon the sea, and the 
 two vessels parted company. Paul did not leave 
 the deck of the Josephine that night. On Sunday 
 morning the weather was clear, but the Young Amer 
 ica was not to be seen, and the young commander, 
 after ordering the officer of the deck to " crack on " 
 for Holyhead, turned in. At twelve o'clock she came 
 to anchor within the breakwater at the port of her
 
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 destination. Three hours later the ship came in, and 
 moored near her. 
 
 Monroe, in the brig, was out of patience with Wil 
 ton, and was almost ready to get out on uny terms, 
 even by sacrificing his companion, and exposing his 
 daring scheme. Perhaps he would have done so, if a 
 circumstance had not occurred, after the ship came to 
 anchor, which forced Wilton to change his tactics. At 
 every opportunity he could obtain, Tom Perth held a 
 consultation with the chief conspirator ; for, having 
 received his appointment of captain from him, that 
 honor which is said to exist among thieves would 
 not permit him to ignore his principal. It had been 
 agreed between them, that if Perth was caught in the 
 act of communicating with the prisoners, he should 
 declare he was persuading Wilton to repent and do 
 his duty. 
 
 " What are you doing there ? " demanded Foster, 
 the fourth lieutenant of the ship, as he discovered Perth 
 talking with Wilton through the bars of the brig. 
 
 " He called me," replied Perth, with feigned hu 
 mility. 
 
 " No matter for that ; you had no right to speak to 
 him," replied Foster, as he went on deck. " You will 
 report to the first lieutenant at once." 
 
 Perth followed the lieutenant, and was reported to 
 Goodwin for speaking to a prisoner. Goodwin re 
 ported the case to the captain, and the captain to 
 the principal, before whom the delinquent was sum 
 moned. 
 
 " He hailed me," pleaded Perth. 
 
 " What did he want of you?" 
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 " He wanted to talk with me, and I told him he was 
 a fool to spend a fortnight in the brig," replied Perth. 
 
 " Did you, indeed? " 
 
 " I did, sir, and I advised him to behave himself." 
 
 u That was good advice, and it was only stran 
 that it should come from you," added Mr. Lowington. 
 " Perth, what trick are you up to now? " 
 
 " No trick, sir. I haven't been in any scrape for a 
 good while," protested the culprit. 
 
 " But I think you are planning one now." 
 
 " No, sir ! " 
 
 "You actually asked Wilton to behave himself." 
 
 " Yes, sir." 
 
 " What did he say ? " 
 
 " He said he was really sorry he had run away, 
 and if it wasn't for the fellows laughing at him, h 
 would own up, and turn over a new leaf." 
 
 "Well, what then?" asked the principal, deeply 
 interested, even while he had no confidence in the 
 rogue before him. 
 
 " I told him the fellows were sorry for him, and 
 wouldn't laugh at him. I advised him to make a 
 clean breast of it." 
 
 " Are you telling me the truth, Perth ? " 
 
 " You can ask Wilton, sir." 
 
 " I will ask him ; and if you have told me a false 
 hood, Perth, you shall spend your spare hours to-mor 
 row on the cross-trees." 
 
 Mr. Lowington led the way to the steerage, where 
 he sent a steward to his room for the key of the brig. 
 Peaks was directed to bring Wilton before him. The 
 principal had been sadly troubled by the obstinacy of
 
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 the prisoners in the brig. While they refused even to 
 promise better behavior, he could not let them out ; 
 and he felt that their confinement, so long continued, 
 would be an injury to them. He hoped, therefore, that 
 they were in a frame of mind which would permit 
 their release, though their punishment was to be con 
 tinued by depriving them of their privileges for at least 
 a fortnight longer. 
 
 " Did you call to Perth ? " asked Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " Yes, sir. I was going to send a message to you, 
 saying that I wanted to see you," replied Wilton, 
 promptly. 
 
 " Did you wish to see me ? " 
 
 " Yes, sir.". 
 
 "What for?" 
 
 " To ask you to let me out." 
 
 " Did you expect me to let you out?" 
 
 " I didn't know ; but I wanted to tell you I was 
 sorry for what I had done, and meant to do better." 
 
 "Do you mean that?" asked Mr. Lowington, en 
 couraged by the prospect. 
 
 " Yes, sir, I do ; and I never meant anything half 
 so strongly before," replied Wilton. 
 
 " How long have you felt this? " 
 
 " Ever since I was first put into the brig." 
 
 " Why did you not say so? You are aware that I 
 do not keep any student in the brig unless he is obsti 
 nate and rebellious, as you were." 
 
 " I didn't like to say so, though I felt so," answered 
 Wilton. 
 | "Why not?" 
 
 " I was afraid the fellows would laugh at me."
 
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 " Perth, when a prisoner in the brig speaks to you, 
 there is no necessity for you to hold any conversation 
 with him," added Mr. Lowington, turning to the 
 rogue. " If one in the brig wishes to speak to me, 
 he can call upon an officer." 
 
 " That's what I was going to do," said Perth. 
 
 " But that is what you did not do. You may go 
 now." 
 
 Perth went ; and for half an hour the principal 
 talked with Wilton and Monroe, both of whom prom 
 ised to observe the rules of the ship, and submit to 
 whatever further punishment was deemed necessary. 
 They were at once discharged from arrest, but were 
 not to be allowed to leave the ship till further orders. 
 
 " That was well done," said Wilton, as he went on 
 deck with Monroe. 
 
 " It ought to have been done a fortnight ago," 
 growled Monroe. 
 
 As soon as Mr. Agneau, the chaplain, learned that 
 the prisoners had been released, and were in a peni 
 tent frame of mind, he hastened to give them such 
 counsel and instruction as their case required. The 
 hypocrite Wilton was prepared for this, but Monroe 
 was silent under the infliction, as he regarded it. The 
 former promised everything, and talked like one of the 
 " lambs." He declared that he had been led to see 
 th'e error of his ways, and he had reformed. The 
 chaplain was earnest and faithful in the discharge of 
 his duty. 
 
 " We must take care of him, and surround him with 
 good influences," said the simple-hearted chaplain to 
 Shuffles, when he had left the supposed penitents.
 
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 " I will do what I can for them ; I used to be very 
 intimate with both of them," replied Shuffles, in whose 
 change of heart, life, and purpose there was no sham. 
 
 Shuffles improved the first opportunity to' speak a 
 kind word to Wilton and Monroe. They had all been 
 students of the Brockway Academy together under 
 Mr. Baird ; indeed, Shuffles and Monroe had been the 
 indirect cause of the establishing of the Academy Ship. 
 
 " Wilton, I suppose you won't believe it, but I enjoy 
 myself ten times as well now as I used to when I was 
 always getting into scrapes," said Shuffles. 
 
 " I do believe it," responded Wilton. 
 
 " I mean to be a good man ; and this desire makes 
 me happy." 
 
 " I mean to be so too," protested Wilton. " I have 
 had a long time to think over these things while in the 
 brig." 
 
 " I am glad to hear you say so." 
 
 "' I'm going to be one of the lambs," added Wilton. 
 
 Shuffles looked at him, and had a doubt of his sin 
 cerity. 
 
 " Do you think I don't mean it? " demanded Wilton. 
 
 " I hope you do." 
 
 " But I do ; I am ready to pipe to prayers with you 
 and the rest of the lambs." 
 
 " You must not use those sneering terms, if you 
 mean what you say," added Shuffles, mildly. 
 
 " I didn't mean anything," continued Wilton, fearful 
 that he had been overdoing the matter, as hypocrites 
 generally do. 
 
 Shuffles talked with the penitents for some time , 
 but he understood human nature better than Mr.
 
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 Agneau, and he had grave fears in regard to them, 
 though he hoped for the best. 
 
 The next morning it was noised through the ship 
 that Wilton had joined the " lambs ; " that he had 
 actually attended a private prayer-meeting with the 
 chaplain, Shuffles, and a few others. The hypocrite 
 did not deny it ; on the contrary, he declared it was 
 all true, though the prayer-meeting was an exaggera 
 tion of the interview between himself and the chap 
 lain. 
 
 " Ah, my lad, I'm glad you got out," said Spenser 
 Murdock, as they met on deck. 
 
 " Thank you," replied Wilton. " I'm glad to get 
 out." 
 
 " And the lads say you have reformed your life and 
 manners, and become one of the lambs. If that's so, 
 I'll trouble you for the twenty pounds I placed in you 
 keeping." 
 
 " Twenty pounds ! ' f exclaimed Wilton, vexed at th 
 demand, with which it was no part of his purpose t 
 comply. 
 
 " Ay, twenty pounds. Don't you remember? " 
 
 " Hush up ! " whispered Wilton, as an officer passe 
 them. 
 
 " Won't you give me the money ? " demanded Mur 
 dock, when the officer was out of hearing. 
 
 "What money?" 
 
 " I see you mean to cheat me out of it," added the 
 new hand, indignantly. " You are not a lamb, after 
 all, for the lambs don't do such things." 
 
 Wilton could not help seeing that if he denied 
 having the money, it would not be in keeping with
 
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 the character he had assumed. He must be consis 
 tent, outwardly, at least. 
 
 " Did you have any more money? " he asked. 
 
 " What if I had? " replied Murdock, angrily. 
 
 " What did you do with it? " 
 
 " I gave it up when the principal asked for it, and 
 he gave me a receipt." 
 
 " Did he ask you if that was all you had ? " 
 
 " Of course he did. What business is that of 
 yours?" said the new hand, impatiently. 
 
 " Of course he did ; and you told him you had 
 twenty pounds in my keeping," added Wilton. 
 
 " No, I didn't ; I told him I had no more, and I 
 hadn't ; and if I trust to your honesty I'm not likely to 
 have any more." 
 
 " You told him you had no more," repeated Wilton. 
 
 " What else should I tell him? To be sure I told 
 him so." 
 
 " That was a wicked lie," said Wilton, gravely. 
 
 " You may be a lamb, but you can't pull your wool 
 over my eyes. Give me my twenty pounds or I'll 
 choke it out of you." 
 
 " Consider, my dear friend, what a fearful thing it is 
 to utter a deliberate falsehood." 
 
 " Will you give me my money?" 
 
 " I dare not do it after the falsehood you have told. 
 I shall be obliged to hand it to Mr. Lowington, and 
 state the circumstances to him." 
 
 " You will ! " exclaimed Murdock, aghast at this 
 proposition. 
 
 " I am sorry to expose you, but I must do my duty. 
 You would call me a hypocrite if I did not give this 
 tnonev to the principal."
 
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 " Or if you did, either," replied Murdock, hitting 
 the nail squarely on the head. 
 
 " I am willing to suffer any reproaches that may 
 be heaped upon me. The chaplain told me I should 
 be sneered at and reviled ; but I didn't expect it so 
 soon." 
 
 " Give me my money then." 
 
 " You can't help seeing that my duty will not per 
 mit me to do that. I hate to expose you and get you 
 into trouble." 
 
 Spenser Murdock was decidedly opposed to having 
 his conduct laid bare to the principal. 
 
 " I see you mean to cheat me out of my money, and 
 I suppose I can't help myself," added he, more mildly. 
 " If that's what the lambs are made of, I would rather 
 have veal than mutton." 
 
 " Don't you see my position ? I don't want to cheat 
 vou out of your money, as you call it, and I don't 
 want to expose you to the principal. What shall 
 I do?" 
 
 " Give me my money, and then you will neither 
 cheat me nor expose me." 
 
 " It wouldn't be right for me to do that," replied 
 Wilton, meekly. " Perhaps we may make a compn 
 mise." 
 
 " What's that? It's something mean, I dare say." 
 
 " I must get rid of the money somehow. It don 
 belong to me." 
 
 "There's a glimmer of truth." 
 
 " It would be wrong for me to give it to you, 
 because you have told the principal a falsehood, 
 would be wrong for me to keep it, because it don't 
 belong to me. I'll tell you what may be done." 

 
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 " Well, what may be done? " demanded Murdock. 
 
 " We can give it to the poor." 
 
 " I dare say we can," added the new hand, dryly. 
 
 " Then the money will do good, and nobody will be 
 in the wrong. It will save you from exposure, and 
 me from sharing in the guilt of your deception." 
 
 " I'll do it ! " exclaimed Murdock, who concluded 
 that it was better to lose liis twenty pounds than to be 
 exposed to the principal. 
 
 " Very well ; then the matter is all settled," said 
 Wilton. 
 
 "Settled? I think not. I thought you said we 
 were to give the money to the poor," interposed Mur 
 dock. 
 
 " Certainly." 
 
 " Who's going to give it to the poor?" 
 
 " I am, of course." 
 
 " I prefer to do it myself." 
 
 " But I can't trust one who has been guilty of telling 
 a wilful falsehood." 
 
 " O, you can't ! " ejaculated Murdock. " Then I 
 suppose I am to trust you." 
 
 " I see no other way, unless you prefer that our good 
 friend the chaplain should be informed of the circum 
 stances, and requested to give the money away for 
 you." 
 
 *' He would tell the principal." 
 
 4i Probably he would," replied Wilton, candidly. 
 
 " But I won't trust one of the lambs." 
 
 " Very well ; then I will wait upon Mr. Lowing- 
 ton and state the case to him ; " and Wilton walked aft 
 towards the quarter-deck, where Mr Lowington was. 
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 " Do as you like about it give the money to the 
 poor yourself," said Murdock, following him. 
 
 " Very well," replied Wilton. " I'll give it to the 
 poor," he muttered to himself; "but I don't know of 
 any one that is any poorer than I am." 
 
 Murdock gave up his money as lost, though he was 
 tempted to go to Mr. Lowington, expose the rascality 
 of the young " lamb," and confess his own fault. But 
 he had not the moral courage to do this. Accustomed 
 as he had been always to have money in his pocket, 
 he felt poor now. After recitations, when all hands 
 were piped to go ashore, he did not care to join them. 
 He had not a penny in his possession, and the shilling 
 which was allowed each student seemed to be only an 
 aggravation of the misery to one who had hardly ever 
 put his hand in his pocket without rinding at least a 
 sovereign there. 
 
 " Young gentlemen," said Mr. Lowington, when 
 the crew gathered on the deck of the ship, " I have 
 informed Captain Kendall that we shall visit the Jose 
 phine to-day, and on our way to the shore we will 
 spend half an hour with him." 
 
 This was welcome intelligence to the boys, for an 
 opportunity had not before been presented for them to 
 visit the consort, which they were very desirous of ex 
 amining. Mr. Lowington consented to the vis 
 because he had promised it, rather than because it was 
 expedient to do so. The students had Josephine or 
 the brain ; and if she had been a beautiful young lady, 
 she could hardly have been more adored. All the 
 hands in the ship, even to the officers, wanted to ge 
 into her ; and a visit to her would not have a tendency
 
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 to render them any more contented with their lot in 
 the Young America. As she was so popular, Mr. 
 Lowington entertained serious thoughts of disposing 
 of the ship, and procuring in her place two small ves 
 sels like the consort. He had even spoken to Mr. 
 Fluxion on the subject, and the matter was still under 
 advisement. 
 
 " If you please, sir, I would like to be excused from 
 going on shore," said Spenser Murdock, as the princi 
 pal descended from his rostrum. 
 
 "Why so?" 
 
 " I have been all about Holyhead several times, and 
 it makes me tired to walk about so much," replied the 
 new hand. 
 
 " Very well ; we will not compel any one to go 
 ashore." 
 
 "But if you please, sir, I would like to visit the 
 Josephine." 
 
 u You may remain on board of her till a boat comes 
 from her to the ship. The stewards are going back 
 and forth occasionally." 
 
 Agreeably to these arrangements, the boats pulled to 
 the Josephine. Flag-officer Gordon and the faculty 
 were received with all the honors, and formally wel 
 comed by Captain Kendall. The crew of the ship 
 were allowed to explore every part of her except the 
 cabin, to which none but officers were admitted. The 
 visitors were as much fascinated by the trim little 
 craft as her own officers and crew were, and envied 
 those who were attached to her. After remaining 
 half an hour on board, the boats started for the shore, 
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 as the honors had been rendered to the departing 
 guests. 
 
 Captain Kendall was in a hurry, but at the las 
 moment one of the acting pursers had reminded him 
 that there was not small silver enough on hand to pay 
 the allowances to the crew the next time they went 
 ashore. He had settled his accounts with the princi 
 pal on Saturday, as he was required to do every week, 
 and one hundred pounds in Bank of England notes 
 had been paid to him. While the purser was standing 
 at his door, he had opened his iron box, and taken there 
 from twenty pounds to be exchanged for shillings, 
 half crowns, and florins on shore. 
 
 Paul was usually very careful in the charge of his 
 financial affairs, but in his hurry on this occasion he 
 made a bad mistake. He handed the bank notes to 
 the purser, leaving the key in the safe. 
 
 " What is to be done with McLeish? " asked Ter- 
 rill, when the captain appeared at the door. " He is 
 in the first cutter, ready to go on shore." 
 
 " I stopped his liberty this morning." replied Paul, 
 rather shai'ply. " You will order him out of the boat. 
 If he does not obey promptly, request Mr. Cleats to 
 take him out." 
 
 Paul's thoughts were fully occupied with this case 
 of discipline, and painfully so, we may add, for he 
 could not help considering how much regret it would 
 give to Grace Arbuckle to learn that her penitent had 
 fallen from his high resolutions, and been impudent to 
 no less a person than the captain himself. He closed 
 the door of his state-room, the safe driven from his 
 mind by the affair of McLeish, and locked it, but 

 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 221 
 
 Jeft the key in the door, according to his usual cus 
 tom. He went on deck soon enough to hear Terrill 
 order the impudent hand on deck. 
 
 Somewhat to his surprise, McLeish yielded a prompt 
 obedience. As he came on deck he met Paul, and 
 touched his cap, with no evidence of being stubborn 
 and refractory in his manner. 
 
 " I stopped your liberty this morning when you were 
 impudent to me," said Paul, mildly. 
 
 " I did not understand you, sir," replied McLeish, 
 with more than usual gentleness. " I did not mean to 
 be impudent. I was quick, and did not mind what 
 I said. I'm very sorry ; indeed I am." 
 
 " You must stay on board this time ; and I hope 
 there will be no occasion to deprive you of your lib 
 erty again," added Paul, kindly. 
 
 u I hope not. I am willing to be punished ; but as I 
 didn't mean to be impudent, I hope you will not tell 
 the young lady," said McLeish, touching his cap 
 again. 
 
 "You shall not suffer in her estimation as long as 
 you try to do well, though you occasionally fail," con 
 tinued Paul, as he went over the side into his gig. 
 
 The boats pulled for the shore, and McLeish 
 watched them till they disappeared behind a ship at 
 anchor. In the forenoon Professor Hamblin had com 
 plained of him to the captain for inattention at the 
 recitation, after giving him several black marks. 
 
 " I'm doing the best I can," growled he, snappishly. 
 " I'm a fool I suppose, but I'm no the only one where 
 you are." 
 
 " Your liberty will be stopped again," replied the 
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 captain, expecting that the next thing would be to 
 order McLeish into the brig. 
 
 McLeish was impulsive, and had spoken without 
 consideration. The captain's remark recalled his good 
 resolution, and he was silent. He was truly sorry for 
 what he had done, and intended to apologize to the 
 captain at the first convenient opportunity. He un 
 derstood the captain to say that his liberty would be 
 ^stopped if he persisted in his course, not that it had 
 been. 
 
 When he turned from the boats he saw Spenser 
 Murdock looking at him. They were strangers to each 
 other, and as McLeish did not care about talking with 
 any one in his present frame of mind, he ran up the 
 fore rigging, and took a seat on the topsail-yard to 
 think of his case. Murdock, finding he was avoided 
 by the only student on board, walked up and down 
 the deck a while, and then descended to the steerage 
 to examine more minutely the accommodations of the 
 crew. The boatswain and carpenter of the Josephine 
 had gone on shore to take charge of the boats, while 
 the party were seeing the sights in Holyhead ; and 
 there was no one on board but the cook and stewards, 
 who had done their work and were idling on the for 
 castle. 
 
 Murdock walked through the steerage, looked into 
 the brig, and into the pantry. Then he opened the 
 door leading into the cabin, where all seamen were 
 forbidden to go, which may have been the particular 
 reason why he desired to enter it. No one was pres 
 ent, and he walked through the passage into the cabi 
 He had spent a day there as a passenger, and was fi
 
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 miliar with the place. He looked into everything with 
 more than Yankee curiosity, not neglecting even the 
 sacred precincts of the captain's state-room, the goal 
 of every student's ambition. He looked into Paul's 
 berth, and into his lockers. Before he had fully ex 
 amined everything, his eye rested upon the iron box, 
 wilh the key in the lid. 
 
 He opened it of course he opened it, for he was a 
 " wild boy." He saw the bank notes ; he picked 
 them up, and counted them. There were eighty 
 pounds in the package. As Spenser Murdock always 
 did wicked things " for fun," he thought it would be a 
 good joke if he should put the notes in his pocket. 
 He did put them in his pocket, for the pressure of 
 poverty which rested so heavily upon him did not per 
 mit him to resist the temptation. 
 
 Closing the lid of the strong box, he began to exer 
 cise what cunning he had in regard to the disposal of 
 the key, which he was satisfied had been left in the safe 
 by accident. If found there it would show the means 
 by which the money had been purloined. On the 
 ;rth lay the captain's overcoat. He put the key into 
 >ne of the pockets of this garment. He had seen sev 
 eral of the officers take their overcoats into the boats, 
 for they seldom went on shore without being caught 
 in a shower. Probably Captain Kendall had intended 
 
 take his, or why should it be lying on his bed ? 
 
 Murdock took the overcoat and put it on the table 
 in the cabin. The captain was expected to believe, 
 /hen he returned, that he had put the key of the safe 
 into the pocket of his overcoat, and left the garment 
 on the cabin table ; or, if he did not believe it, the facts,
 
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 as he found them, ought to convince him that such was 
 the case. 
 
 The new hand was satisfied with what he had done 
 to cover up his amusing deed, and, having locked the 
 door of the state-room, returned to the steerage. He 
 had robbed the counting-room of the mill, once, and 
 been detected ; but more than once had he pilfered 
 small sums from his father without detection, always 
 " for fun," of course, and he was so much accus 
 tomed to this jocose criminality, that the deed did not 
 seriously disturb him. He walked about the steerage 
 for a few moments, when McLeish came down, tired 
 of the fore-yard. By this time the young Scotchman 
 felt more social, and the two students had a chat. 
 While thus engaged, they heard the noise of lowering 
 a boat on deck. Of course they wished to know what 
 was to be done, and hastened on deck. The cook, by 
 permission of the captain, was going on board of the 
 Young America, in the boat, with two of the stewards, 
 to visit her cooks ; and Murdock obtained a passage 
 with them. The banknotes were warm in his pocket, 
 and he could not feel easy till he had disposed of them.
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE KNIGHTS OF THE RED CROSS. 
 
 MURDOCK was more troubled to know what to 
 do with the eighty pounds in his pocket than 
 he was about the consequences of the crime he had 
 committed. When he went on board of the ship, he 
 saw Wilton and Monroe sitting on the rail, engaged 
 in conversation ; but he noticed that they stopped talk 
 ing when he approached them. He was satisfied they 
 were engaged in forbidden schemes, but he was too 
 much occupied with his own affair to trouble himself 
 with theirs. He went down into the steerage. 
 
 One of the cooks had opened the scuttle, and gone 
 to one of the store-rooms in the hold for provisions. 
 Murdock looked down. The place was as dark as 
 Erebus ; but curiosity, as well as the desire to find a 
 hiding-place for his ill-gotten treasure, induced him to 
 descend the ladder. He had hardly reached the foot 
 of the steps before he saw the cook, with a lantern and 
 a basket of stores, approaching the scuttle. -Retreat 
 ing behind a row of water-casks, the man did not ob 
 serve him, and, going up the ladder, closed the scuttle 
 after him. 
 
 Murdock had some matches in his pocket, and he 
 lighted one of them so as to enable him to find a
 
 326 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 suitable place for the money. There are always plenty 
 of holes and corners in the hold of a ship ; and after 
 he had burned half a dozen matches, he found one 
 which suited him. Near one of the store-rooms, he 
 saw a quantity of empty bottles, labelled ' ; Congress 
 Water," one of which he took, and having satisfied 
 himself that the inside was dry, he rolled up the bills 
 and thrust them into it. He then concealed the bottle 
 in a crevice between the water-casks. It was not 
 probable, in his opinion, that any one would think of 
 searching the hold for the lost money, much less the 
 inside of a bottle. 
 
 Lighting another match, he made his way back to 
 the ladder. The scuttle was not fastened down, and 
 he raised it far enough to ascertain that no one was in 
 the steerage, before he came out. He raised it a little 
 higher ; no one was to be seen, but he heard voices 
 in one of the mess-rooms. Crawling out with the 
 utmost caution, he closed the scuttle, and for the first 
 time since he left Captain Kendall's state-room, he felt 
 safe. He had eighty pounds in store for a good time 
 when he desired to have one. 
 
 Creeping on tiptoe to his mess-room, so as not to 
 disturb the persons whose voices he had heard, he 
 brushed the dirt from his clothes, and congratulated 
 himself upon his own cunning. It was true that no 
 human eye had seen him ; but the All-seeing Eye had 
 been upon him all the time. Though he might con 
 ceal his evil deed from the eyes of men, yet he could 
 not conceal it from himself and from Him who know- 
 eth the secrets of all hearts. 
 
 Murdock heard the low murmur of voices still, and
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGiyVND AND WALES. 227 
 
 he concluded that Wilton and Monroe had retired to 
 the steerage to discuss the mischief they were plotting. 
 He had a serious grudge against Wilton for cheating 
 him out of his money, and he wanted to know the 
 subject of their private conversation. One who was 
 not above stealing, even for fun, was surelv not above 
 listening, mean as such a practice generally is. He 
 crept out of his room, and stole up to the gangway 
 leading to Wilton's mess-room. 
 
 " Knights of the Red Cross that's the name we'll 
 take," Murdock heard Wilton say, in a low tone. " I 
 have somewhere heard the term, but I can't tell 
 where." 
 
 " Knights of the Red Cross ! " sneered Monroe ; 
 " that's a bigger humbug than the Chain League. I 
 thought you were not going to tell the fellows any 
 thing about it till all was ready." 
 
 " Neither am I ; but when tht time comes, we want 
 to know who's who," replied Wilton. 
 
 " Do you expect it will come before we leave Holy- 
 head?" 
 
 " No ; we have only thirteen fellows in yet. I 
 hatched up this idea to-day, and it's a first-rate way 
 to know who our fellows are. There is plenty of red 
 chalk on board to make the crosses with." 
 
 " I don't see what you want to make any crosses 
 for, if you don't want the knights to know each 
 >ther." 
 
 " Tom Perth says they must know each other ; they 
 won't stand it if they don't. Greenway says he won't 
 have anything to do with it, if Perth don't tell who's 
 going in."
 
 228 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Then the whole thing will be blowed in a short 
 time." 
 
 " You are always croaking, Ike Monroe. Don't 
 you see the fellows will think more of it, and keep the 
 secret twice as well, if we make a big thing of it, and 
 give it a high-sounding title, like the Knights of the 
 Red Cross?" 
 
 Monroe always grumbled, but he always did what 
 he was told to do by his leader. He consented to be 
 come a Knight of the Red Cross, and Wilton explained 
 that each fellow in the ring would wear a red cross on 
 the left lapel of his jacket. 
 
 " Any fellow can put that on his jacket, and every 
 fellow will see it, and want to know what it means," 
 Monroe objected. 
 
 " If two wearing the red cross meet, one must place 
 his forefinger across the forefinger of the other. When 
 I meet you I cross your forefinger, and say, ' Are you 
 a Red-Cross Knight?' You reply, 'I am.' I ask, 
 ' Has your back been chalked ? ' You answer, ' It 
 has.' I ask, 'Who chalked it?' You say, ' A Red 
 Knight of the Red Cross chalked it red.' Then you 
 are all right." 
 
 Monroe was rather pleased with this form ; and the 
 two Knights of the Red Cross went through the dia 
 logue till they could say it perfectly. So could M'. r- 
 dock ; but the enterprise in which the Knights were 
 to engage was not explained, and he was disappointed 
 in not being able to learn the nature of the mischief 
 to be accomplished, when " the time came." 
 
 "Where's Murdock?" asked Monroe, when the 
 means by which one Knight was to know another
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 22CJ 
 
 had been fully rehearsed. " How do you know he 
 hasn't heard what we have been saying? " 
 
 " We have spoken in a low tone. The last I saw 
 of the greeny, he was on deck," replied Wilton. 
 
 Murdock, from motives of delicacy, thought it was 
 time to withdraw, and he crawled back to his room, 
 threw off his jacket, and rolled into his berth. Wilton 
 was an active Knight, and when it was suggested that 
 the secrets of the fraternity had been overheard, he 
 wished to satisfy himself on this important point. 
 Before going on deck, he looked in Murdock's mess- 
 room. There he lay in his berth, sound asleep appar 
 ently, and it was not possible that he had heard 
 anything. Wilton examined the sleeper ; but one 
 who was cunning enough to rob his father's counting- 
 room, even " for fun," was in this instance smart 
 enough to be " caught napping ; " and the conspirator 
 did not even suspect that he was wide awake. He 
 was satisfied, and went on deck with Monroe. 
 
 Murdock remained in his berth thinking of the 
 Knights of the Red Cross, and wondering what they 
 were going to do when the time came ; but he was 
 determined, as soon as he saw any student with the 
 cross on the lapel of his jacket, to join the associa 
 tion, and pretend to know all about it. 
 
 The boats of the Josephine pulled for the shore, 
 where Paul joined Dr. Winstock, and explored the 
 place. Holyhead is on a small island, separated by 
 a narrow strait from the larger island of Anglesea, 
 which is itself separated from Wales by the Menai 
 Strait. It is the point of Great Britain which lies 
 nearest to Dublin, and derives its importance princi- 
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 230 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 pally from this fact. It is the terminus of the railway 
 from Chester, by which all the quick travel to Ireland 
 is carried on. As a harbor of refuge for ships bound 
 in or out of Liverpool, Holyhead has obtained a 
 national importance, and upwards of half a million 
 pounds has been expended upon its improvement. 
 An immense breakwater has been extended before the 
 place, and a large portion of Holyhead Mountain, 
 which frowned uselessly above the town, has been 
 moved into the sea, to protect the shipping from the 
 north-west gales which blow remorselessly down the 
 Irish Sea. 
 
 Except the breakwater, the pier, and the harbor, 
 there \vas not much in Holyhead for the boys to see. 
 At the entrance to the pier there is an arch built of 
 Mona marble, to commemorate the landing of George 
 IV. in 1821. On the western part of the island is the 
 South Stack Light-house, the point for which a ship 
 from the United States to Liverpool runs, after leaving 
 Tuskar. 
 
 The distance across the channel, from Holyhead to 
 Kingstown, is sixty-three miles, and the passages of 
 the mail-steamers vary from four to four and a half 
 hours. There are three boats a day to Kingstown, 
 and the whole distance from London to the Irish me 
 tropolis is accomplished in less than fourteen hours. 
 
 At the appointed hour, the boats of the Josephine 
 pulled for their vessel, but those of the ship had to 
 wait for some of her crew. Paul had not thought of 
 the key to his iron box during the afternoon, but in 
 the boat he happened to put his hand into the pocket 
 where he usually kept it, and then missed it. He was
 
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 startled at first, but when he considered that all hands 
 had been on shore, he was confident that his valuables 
 could not have been disturbed. 
 
 When he went on board, he hastened down into the 
 cabin to ascertain what had become of his key. On 
 the table he saw his overcoat. He did not remember 
 that he had left it there. Taking the garment on his 
 arm, he entered his state-room. The safe was in its 
 place, securely locked, but the key was not to be seen. 
 He felt in all his pockets again, and exa'mined every 
 part of his room. While he was searching for it, the 
 purser came to the door with the small silver he had 
 procured in exchange for the notes. 
 
 " I've lost my key," said Paul, who was now suffer 
 ing from anxiety. 
 
 " Lost it ! " exclaimed Ritchie, the acting purser. 
 
 " I cannot tell what has become of it." 
 
 " Perhaps you lost it while you were on shore." 
 
 " I don't think it is possible. If I had been turning 
 somersets, or anything of that kind, it might have 
 slipped out of my pocket ; but I hardly sat down 
 while on shore, and I don't see how it could have 
 jumped out," added the captain, as he took his over 
 coat out of the berth where he had thrown it, and 
 hung it upon a hook. 
 
 Something had struck against the partition as he 
 did so, and thrusting his hand into the side pocket of 
 the coat, he drew forth the lost key. 
 
 " Here it is ! " exclaimed he ; and a gleam of pleas 
 ure lighted up his face. *' I didn't see how it was 
 possible for me to lose it. I'm fortunate this time ; 
 but I'm going to have this key tied to me, so that I 
 can't lose it if I try."
 
 232 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I'm glad you have found it," replied Ritchie, as 
 he handed Paul the silver he had brought off. 
 
 The young commander was happy now, for a 
 heavy burden of anxiety had suddenly been removed 
 from his mind. What would Mr. Lowington say if 
 ke had lost that key? Would it not prove that he was 
 not fit for the responsible position in which he had 
 been placed? Paul was disposed to judge himself 
 more harshly than he judged others ; and this, within 
 reasonable limits, is a safe policy. But if he had lost 
 the key, he would have done no more than the princi 
 pal himself. It was an inexpressible relief to find the 
 key, and it was a better fate than had attended that of 
 the Young America's safe. 
 
 Poor Paul ! How soon was all this self-gi'atulation 
 to be exchanged for a state of feeling bordering on 
 despair ! He opened the safe, and looked in as he 
 was about to deposit the silver in it. He had left the 
 bank notes on the top of the loose gold. He did not 
 see them where he had placed them in his hurry. He 
 pulled the safe out from under the berth, raised the 
 papers it contained, and the cold sweat stood on his 
 brow as he realized that the bills were not there. He 
 was appalled at the discovery. If it had been his 
 own money, though the loss of it deprived him of any 
 coveted joy, he would not have suffered half so much. 
 He took the silver from the purser, and dropped it 
 into the box. 
 
 "Ask Mr. Terrill to come to me, if you please," 
 said he, dropping upon his sofa, as though life had no 
 further joys for him. 
 
 Ritchie saw that something was the matter with his
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 233 
 
 captain, but he knew not what. Being a good officer, 
 he asked no question of his superior, but hastened to 
 obey the order. Paul tried to think ; to recall what 
 he could in regard to the key ; but he was stunned by 
 the loss, and his mind was confused. Perhaps there 
 was some mistake, after all, as there had been about 
 the key. He was willing to believe that in his hurried 
 departure from the vessel, he had put the key into the 
 pocket of his overcoat, instead of his pants, where 
 he was in the habit of carrying it. He remembered 
 nothing about it, and he could only take the evidence 
 of the facts as he found them. It did not seem possi 
 ble that any one had stolen the money. 
 
 Opening the safe again, he took out the papers, un 
 folded them all, and assured himself that the money 
 was actually gone. Whatever was strange, there was 
 no doubt about this disagreeable fact. He had found 
 the safe locked, and the key in his overcoat, where 
 he had doubtless left it. Overwhelmed by his misfor 
 tune, and forgetting the unswerving kindness of Mr. 
 Lowington, he gave himself up to despair. The tears 
 started in his eyes, and he concluded that he was not 
 fit to command the Josephine. While he was thus 
 weeping, and thus feeling that he had sacrificed all 
 claims to the consideration of Mr. Lowington, the 
 first lieutenant entered the state-room. 
 
 " Terrill, I am ruined ! " he exclained, in tones 
 which left no doubt in the mind of the executive 
 officer that something terrible had occurred. 
 
 "Why, Captain Kendall, what is the matter?" de 
 manded Terrill, astonished and alarmed at the aspect 
 and the words of the commander. 
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 234 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I left eighty pounds in Bank of England notes in 
 the safe when I went on shore, and now they are 
 gone," replied Paul, with a kind of gasp which star 
 tled the executive officer. 
 
 " Gone ! " 
 
 " Gone ! Eighty pounds, in Bank of England notes, 
 gone, about four hundred dollars." 
 
 " Do you mean that the money has been stolen?" 
 
 " I don't know whether it has been stolen or not ; I 
 only know that it is gone," replied Paul, with a shud 
 der. " I had a hundred pounds in bills, besides the 
 gold and silver. I took out twenty pounds for Ritchie 
 to exchange for small silver, and put the rest back into 
 the safe. It is gone now." 
 
 " But how can it be gone, if you had the key ? " 
 asked Terrill, fully sympathizing with his commander 
 in the distress of the hour." 
 
 " I don't know, I can't understand it. I only 
 know that I left the money in the safe, and now it is 
 gone," answered Paul, not at all comforted by the dis 
 may of Terrill. 
 
 "Did you find the safe locked, as you left it?" 
 asked the first lieutenant. 
 
 Paul stated all the circumstances as he understood 
 them ; that he had locked the safe and put the key 
 into the pocket of his overcoat, instead of his pants, 
 as was his custom ; that he had forgotten to take his 
 overcoat with him, and had left it on the cabin table, 
 where he had found it on his return. 
 
 " It is clear enough that somebody has fished your 
 pocket during your absence, opened the safe, and 
 taken the money," replied Terrill, when he had lis 
 tened to the captain's statement.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 235 
 
 " Of course the money did not leave the safe with 
 out some help," replied Paul. "None of those who 
 went on shore with us could have taken it. Now, 
 who was left on board ? " 
 
 " No one but McLeish," replied Terrill, who did not 
 know that Spenser Murdock had spent half an hour 
 in the Josephine after the boats left. 
 
 "Would McLeish do such a thing?" asked Paul, 
 anxiously. 
 
 " I don't know. I shouldn't like to charge him, or 
 any other fellow, with such a thing without some evi 
 dence." 
 
 "We must look into this matter without delay," 
 added the captain. " W T here is Mr. Briskett?" 
 
 " He is in the cabin." 
 
 " Send him in, if you please." 
 
 The head steward, who had not left the vessel that 
 day, informed Paul that Spenser Murdock had been 
 on board by permission of the principal, and returned 
 in the boat which conveyed the cook to the ship. 
 Captain Kendall did not know that the new hand had 
 robbed the counting-room of his father's mill " for 
 fun," and was not disposed to suspect him of so seri 
 ous a crime as the stealing of the money. 
 
 " Where was McLeish during the afternoon? " asked 
 Paul. 
 
 " He was in the steerage most of the time, I think ; 
 at least I saw him there several times," replied Mr. 
 Briskett. 
 
 " Where were you?" 
 
 " I was on deck part of the time, and in the cabin 
 part of the time," answered the steward, uneasily, for
 
 2%6 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 the captain had not yet told him why he asked these 
 questions. 
 
 " How long were you on deck?" 
 
 " I can't tell precisely how long ; perhaps t\vo hours 
 after the boats left the vessel." 
 
 " I only wish to ascertain what you know in re 
 gard to the movements of the two students who 
 were on board," added the captain, when he per 
 ceived that the steward was fretting under the ex 
 amination. 
 
 " I did not particularly notice them, Captain Ken 
 dall," replied Mr. Briskett, with a more cheerful aspect 
 when he was satisfied that he was not himself sus 
 pected of a wrong act. " Murdock was not on board 
 more than half an hour. I was on the forecastle talk 
 ing with the cook when the boats left the schooner. 
 Murdock walked about the deck a while, and then 
 went below. McLeish was on the fore-topsail-yard ; 
 but he soon came down and went below. The cook 
 told me he had permission to visit the ship in the 
 third cutter, and I sent the two steerage stewards 
 with him. While we wdre getting out the boat, both 
 of the students came up, and Murdock went off in 
 the boat." 
 
 "Did either of them come into the cabin?" asked 
 Paul. 
 
 " I don't know that they did. Neither of them 
 could have been in the cabin when the cutter was 
 lowered, for we had hardly touched the falls before 
 both of them came on deck." 
 
 " How long had Murdock been below when 
 McLeish went down ? "
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND .AND WALES. 237 
 
 " Not more than ten or fifteen minutes, I should 
 say, but I did not take particular notice." 
 
 u After the third cutter left, where was McLeish ? " 
 
 " He went below again. When I went down, in 
 about two hours, he was writing at a mess table." 
 
 From all this evidence, it appeared that Murdock 
 had not been on board more than half an hour after 
 the boats left ; that he had been below alone not more 
 than fifteen minutes, and that he had come on deck 
 with McLeish when the stewards began to lower the 
 cutter ; that McLeish had been in the steerage alone 
 about two hours. Paul then told the head steward 
 that eighty pounds had been taken from his safe. 
 
 " I hope you don't think I took it, Captain Kendall," 
 added Air. Briskett, with a blush. 
 
 " Certainly not ; such a thought never entered my 
 head. You will not mention what I have told you to 
 any one at present." 
 
 " I will not, Captain Kendall ; but I would rather 
 have given a year's salary than had such a thing hap 
 pen on board. McLeish must have stolen it," added 
 the steward." 
 
 "Why McLeish?" 
 
 " Because it is not possible that any one else could 
 have done it. I am sure that none of the men went 
 into the cabin during the afternoon, except myself. 
 I am certain of that ; so the loss of the money lies 
 between the two students and me." 
 
 " Of course I have not the remotest suspicion that 
 you took the notes, Mr. Briskett," added Paul, troubled 
 by the manner of the steward. " It lies between the 
 two students."
 
 238 v . RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I know that I didn't take them, Captain Kendall. 
 Murdock was on board only a short time ; not long 
 enough, it seems to me, to find that the safe-key was 
 in your coat pocket, that your safe was under your 
 berth, and that it contained money. It would have 
 taken him some time after he found the key in the 
 coat on the cabin table to discover what it belonged to, 
 and then to open it, take out the bills, and put things 
 as he found them. I don't believe it was Murdock." 
 
 If Paul had known that he left the kev in the safe, 
 it would have changed the whole aspect of the affair. 
 It followed, therefore, from the testimony of the stew 
 ard, that McLeish was the guilty one. He was bad 
 enough to do anything. Perhaps he was preparing 
 to run away. It was even possible that he had been 
 impudent for the purpose of being left on board, and 
 had gone into the boat in order to manifest an anxiety 
 to visit the shore. Paul, while willing to give the 
 reprobate every opportunity to reform, had not had 
 much confidence in his good resolutions. 
 
 But the evidence against him was all negative in its 
 character. There was nothing to show that he had 
 entered the cabin. As the theft lay between him and 
 Mtirdock, it was only more probable that McLeish 
 was the guilty one. Paul went on deck, and sent for 
 the presumed culprit. Without making any charge 
 against him, he asked where and how he had spent 
 the afternoon. The answers were all straightforward 
 and direct. McLeish detailed minutely where he had 
 been and what he had done. 
 
 " Did you go into the cabin this afternoon?" asked 
 Paul.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 239 
 
 " No, sir ; I did not," answered McLeish, as square 
 as a brick. 
 
 " Have you seen my overcoat anywhere ? " 
 
 " I have not. Have you lost your overcoat?" 
 
 " No ; that is all, McLeish." 
 
 " I hope I'm not charged with anything bad," added 
 the Scotch boy. 
 
 " I have not charged you with anything," replied 
 Paul, perplexed beyond measure by the square an 
 swers of the supposed culprit. " Mr. Terrill, have 
 the gig manned, if you please," he continued, turning 
 to the first lieutenant in order to avoid McLeish, who 
 began to exhibit some signs of wrath when he felt 
 that he was suspected of something without being in 
 formed what it was. 
 
 Paul stepped into his gig, and directed the coxswain 
 to pull for the ship. Arriving on board, he had an 
 interview with Mr. Lowington in the main cabin, and 
 with a woful expression on his handsome face, and 
 occasionally with tears in his eyes, told him all about 
 the loss of the eighty pounds. 
 
 " Don't take it so sorely to heart, Captain Kendall," 
 said the principal, kindly. 
 
 " It was all my own carelessness, sir." 
 
 " Perhaps you were a little careless ; you certainly 
 were, if you left the key of the safe in your overcoat 
 on board when you went on shore," added Air. Low 
 ington, mildly, and with a pleasant smile. 
 
 " I think I had better resign my place as captain 
 of the Josephine," added Paul, bitterly, as the tears 
 coursed down his cheeks. " Or perhaps you will 
 remove me."
 
 240 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " My dear Paul," said the principal, taking him by 
 the hand, " if we are all to be judged as harshly as you 
 judge yourself, I think none of us can stand up any 
 longer. The truth requires me to say that you were 
 careless, but it is worth more than eighty pounds for 
 you to learn the lesson which the loss of it has taught 
 you. Great battles have been lost by a little careless 
 ness ; nations and dynasties have been swept away 
 by it. I do not reprove you, Paul. By a similar act 
 of carelessness on my part, sixty pounds was taken 
 from the ship's safe. Do you think I ought to resign 
 because I was careless then ? " 
 
 " It is different with you, sir." 
 
 " Perhaps it is, but I will not judge you more 
 harshly than I judge myself. I do not know to this 
 day how Wilton got into the ship's safe ; but I have 
 no doubt I left the key where he found it." 
 
 Mr. Lowington opened the safe and took eighty 
 pounds in bills from it, which he handed to Paul. 
 He spoke words of comfort to him, but he could not 
 entirelv remove the sense of guilt which weighed 
 down the young commander. He was deeply moved 
 by the kindness of the principal, and felt that he did 
 not deserve so much consideration. He was instructed 
 to inform all his officers of the loss of the money, and 
 direct them to be on the lookout for any suspicious 
 circumstances that might transpire, but on no account 
 to permit any of the crew to know that the safe had 
 been robbed. He was advised to use the strictest 
 vigilance to prevent the culprit, whoever he was, 
 from running away ; for this would doubtless be his 
 next step. Paul returned on board, Mr. Lowington
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 2^1. 
 
 declining to express an opinion in regard to the 
 guilt of McLeish. 
 
 The principal was greatly annoyed at the event 
 which had transpired on board of the Josephine ; but, 
 knowing the -antecedents of Murdock, he was not so 
 sure that he was not the guilty party. After thinking 
 of the unpleasant affair for a time, he sent for the new 
 hand, and questioned him very closely in regard to his 
 movements while on board of the Josephine. Mur 
 dock had not expected to escape questioning in regard 
 to the money, and he had carefully schooled himself 
 to give the right kind of replies. He told just where 
 he had been on board of the schooner, only denying 
 that he had been in the cabin, and declaring that he 
 had spent all his time on deck or in the steerage. 
 He had not seen Captain Kendall's overcoat did 
 not know that he had any overcoat. 
 
 "The safe of the Josephine .has been robbed of 
 eighty pounds in Bank of England notes, Murdock," 
 added the principal. 
 
 "Has it, indeed?" replied Murdock, opening his 
 eyes with well-feigned surprise. 
 
 " As you were on board, I thought it possible you 
 might know something about it." 
 
 "Do you think I took the money, sir?" demanded 
 the new hand. 
 
 " Who took it is still an open question," added 
 Mr. Lowington. " Did you see any one go into the 
 cabin?" 
 
 "No, sir, I did not. I hope you will search me 
 and my things, sir ; for I don't wish to be accused of 
 an act I'm not guilty of," protested Murdock. 
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 242 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " I do not accuse you. I desire information." 
 
 " You should search me, sir." 
 
 Mr. Lowington declined to go through with such a 
 useless formality, and dismissed Murdock. 
 
 The principal had directed Paul not to allow any 
 of the crew of the Josephine to be informed that the 
 money had been stolen ; but he had himself told one 
 of the crew of the Young America. He was satisfied 
 that, if Murdock was innocent, he would communicate 
 the fact of the robbery to others, and within a few 
 hours the information would be patent to every student 
 on board ; while, if he were guilty, he would not be 
 likely to mention it to any person. He intended, be 
 fore any one went on shore again, to inform the officers 
 of the ship of the theft, and, as they mingled with the 
 crew when off duty, they could inform him whether 
 the secret was known or not. 
 
 It had been announced, since the return of the party, 
 that on the following day, after recitations, the students 
 would start upon a three days' trip into Wales. Mur 
 dock wanted the money he had concealed in the hold 
 for this excursion ; but he watched vainly for an oppor 
 tunity to obtain it. Somebody seemed to be looking at 
 him all the time, and the scuttle was not raised when 
 there were not twenty students in the steerage. 
 
 After the regular studies had been disposed of, and 
 dinner was over the signal, for " all hands, attend lee. 
 ture," was hoisted at the peak of the ship.
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 A TRAMP THROUGH SNOWDONIA. 
 
 AFTER dinner, when the signal for the lecture 
 had been displayed, the principal assembled the 
 officers in the after-cabin, and informed them of the 
 robbery ; but not one of them had heard a word altout 
 it before. He instructed them not to mention it to any 
 seaman, and required them to keep a close watch upon 
 the hands. Mr. Lowington was a just man, and the 
 fact that Murdock had not mentioned the theft was, in 
 his estimation, insufficient evidence upon which to 
 charge him with the crime ; but it justified him in caus 
 ing a strict watch to be kept over the suspected person, 
 He was not to be accused till better evidence was ob 
 tained, but all his actions were to be carefully noted, 
 and their significance observed. 
 
 " Have you obtained any further information, Cap-* 
 tain Kendall, in regard to the money?" asked Mr. 
 Lowington, when Paul came on board. 
 
 " No, sir, none at all, I am sorry to say. All the 
 officers think McLeish did it," replied the young com 
 mander. " They all wanted to have him searched." 
 
 " Don't permit it to be done, and make no charges 
 against him till you have consulted with me," added 
 the principal.
 
 244 RED CROSS J R 
 
 " McLeish is quite surly to-day." 
 
 " I am not surprised at that, after the questions you 
 asked him yesterday. He evidently thinks he is sus 
 pected of something, and don't know what. Let your 
 officers treat him kindly, and not notice any surliness 
 which does not amount to positive disrespect. If he 
 is innocent, he feels hurt by the suspicions your ques 
 tions indicated." 
 
 " He told some of the hands that he had been ac 
 cused of stealing my overcoat." 
 
 u That remark is in his favor. This is very delicate 
 business, and we must all be cautious while we are 
 vigilant." 
 
 All hands were piped to the steerage to hear what 
 Professor Mapps had to say about Wales. The map 
 of Great Britain hung upon the foremast, but the 
 learned gentleman appeared to be nervous, and com 
 plained that he had but half an hour for his lecture, 
 and he could not possibly do justice to the subject in 
 that time. Wales was a very interesting country, and 
 he could hardly allude to Owen Glendower, the last 
 of the Welsh chieftains. The professdr did what 
 many eminent men do who are allowed but a brief 
 period to make a speech he used up one sixth of 
 his time in regretting that he had so little time. But 
 the students, with their bags and blankets ready for a 
 start, thought that half an hour was long enough ; and 
 most of them would have voted that any professor who 
 occupied more than half an hour at one time, in his 
 lecture, ought to be committed to the brig on bread 
 and water for twenty-four hours. 
 
 "Young gentlemen, what is Wales?" asked Mr. 
 Mapps, when he had finished his exordium. 

 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 245 
 
 " Where they strike ile," replied Duncan, the new 
 hand of the Josephine, who appeared not to have the 
 fear of professors before his eyes. 
 
 " No levity, young gentlemen ! " added the profess 
 or, rather sternly. 
 
 " I've always heard that oil came from whales," re 
 plied Duncan, meekly, as he adjusted his eye-glass, 
 and looked gravely at the instructor. 
 
 " Bully for Speksy ! " whispered Lynch ; and most 
 of the students laughed. 
 
 " Silence, young gentlemen ! " exclaimed Mr. 
 Mapps. " I asked what Wales was." 
 
 " It's what a fellow finds on his back when he has 
 had a licking," replied Little, one of the " greenies." 
 
 " No more of this, young gentlemen," interposed 
 the principal ; and his word was sufficient, though 
 that of the professor was not always heeded. 
 
 u Wales is a part of Great Britain," answered one 
 of the students. 
 
 " Is it, indeed? " replied the professor. " You must 
 have burned the midnight oil to learn that." 
 
 This was spoken in a sneering way, and the boy 
 who had given the answer in good faith was hurt in 
 his feelings by its tone. Mr. Lowington frowned upon 
 the teacher, for he would noj: permit an honest an 
 swer, however foolish, to be ridiculed, for sneers are 
 always discouraging to a boy who is trying to do his 
 duty. To a careless, indifferent student, a little 
 ridicule is sometimes wholesome and beneficial. 
 
 Everybody was silent, for no one knew what the 
 professor meant. It was a question which could be 
 correctly answered in a dozen different ways.
 
 246 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 ' Wales is a principality," continued Mr. Mapps, 
 more mildly for he had probably seen the frown upon 
 the face of Mr. Lowington " deriving this name from 
 the fact that its ruler, even before it was subjugated by 
 Britain, was a prince. Wales is about one hundred 
 and forty miles long from north to south, and about 
 ninety in breadth from east to west. Its area and 
 population are about the same as those of Massachu 
 setts. It has three hundred miles of coast line, having 
 the waters of the Irish Sea on the north, of St. George's 
 Channel on the west, and of Bristol Channel on the 
 south. It contains twelve counties, and is entitled to 
 twenty-nine members in the House of Commons. 
 
 " Wales is wholly a mountainous region, and 
 abounds in the richest mines of coal, iron, zinc, lead, 
 copper, and silver ; and mining is the chief branch of 
 industry in the principality. More iron is manufac 
 tured in Wales than in all the United States. 
 
 " The climate of Wales is very moist ; the annual 
 fall of rain is forty-five and a half inches, the average 
 of the British Isles being only thirty-two inches. I am 
 glad to see that you have your overcoats and blankets 
 ready, young gentlemen, for you will find the weather 
 among the mountains quite chilly, even at this season 
 of the year. 
 
 " Swansea and Merthyr Tydvil are the largest 
 towns in Wales, the latter having about fifty thousand 
 inhabitants, and the former forty thousand. The Lat 
 in name of the country was Cambria. Most of the 
 people of Wales are of Celtic origin. While the 
 English call them the Welsh, they choose to call 
 themselves the Cymri. They are a brave and gener-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 247 
 
 ous people, as their traits of character appear in the 
 history of their country ; but they are quick-tem 
 pered, impulsive, and given to superstitions. The 
 progress of education has improved the people very 
 sensibly, and their manners and customs have greatly 
 changed for the better, though some of their supersti 
 tious practices are still retained, one of which I will 
 mention as an illustration. 
 
 " The fanaticism of the ' sin-eater' is said to be still 
 in vogue in some parts of Caermarthenshire. When 
 a person dies, the relatives send for the sin-eater of the 
 district. After he arrives, a plate of salt, on which a 
 piece of bread is placed, is deposited on the breast of 
 the corpse. The functionary then repeats some mys 
 tic phrases over the bread, and finally eats it. By this 
 ceremony he is supposed to eat the sins of the de 
 ceased. A fee of two and sixpence is paid to him, and 
 he makes haste to retire ; for having taken upon him 
 self the sins of the dead of his district, of course he 
 must be a very wicked man, and the friends banish 
 him with kicks and blows from their presence. 
 
 " At Tenby, near Milford Haven, a very pleasant 
 New Year's custom was formerly prevalent. The 
 children of the neighborhood gather together on the 
 morning of the first day of the year, and visit the 
 houses in the vicinity of their homes. Having knocked 
 and gained admission to a house, they sprinkle the 
 furniture with water, singing, at the same time, a 
 couple of fantastic verses, which I shall ask Mr. Mo- 
 delle to read to you." 
 
 Mr. Mapps handed a book to the professor of elo 
 cution, and he rea4 these stanzas :
 
 248 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Here we bring new water from the well so clear 
 For to worship God with this happy new year. 
 Sing levy dew, sing levy dew, the water and the wine, 
 With seven bright golden wires, and bugles that do shine. 
 
 "Sing reign of fair maid with gold upon her toe; 
 Open wide the -west door, and turn the old year go. 
 Sing reign of fair maid, with gold upon her chin, 
 Open you the east door, and let the new year in." 
 
 " There is much in Wales to interest the antiqua 
 rian," continued Mr. Mapps. " Twenty-eight crom 
 lechs are to be found in Anglesea alone, and the re~ 
 mains of ancient British customs are to be seen in all 
 parts of the country. There are also a number of 
 Roman stations, and some evidence that the Romans 
 mined gold from the mountains of Cambria has been 
 discovered. 
 
 " The people of Wales take pride and pleasure in 
 their ancient origin, and cling earnestly to their pecu 
 liar customs and traditions. Though English is spoken 
 in the larger towns, the people of the mountains and 
 farming districts confine themselves to the Welsh 
 tongue. Within six hours' ride of Holyhead, you 
 will find people who do not know a word of English, 
 and who will answer your respectful inquiry with a 
 'Dim Saesnegj uttered in short, curt tones, as though 
 the Welsh language was the only one fit to be spoken. 
 The phrase means ' No English.' 
 
 " Of the history of Wales only a little need be 
 said, even if I had time to say it. The Cymri, a 
 Celtic tribe, had possession of the whole of South 
 Britain wherj the Romans first invaded the country
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 249 
 
 They were driven by the Latins into the region 
 West of the Severn River, but were never wholly con 
 quered. When the Anglo-Saxons had conquered 
 Britain, they found the Cymri to be a brave and pow 
 erful enemy, and they never were able to dislodge them 
 from their strongholds in the mountains, though they 
 wrested from them the territory lying between the Sev 
 ern and the present eastern boundary of Wales. 
 
 " In the tenth century, King Athelstan of England 
 partially conquered Wales, and received an annual 
 tribute from the people. They declined to pay this 
 tax to William the Conqueror, and he invaded their 
 territory, and reduced them to submission. This is 
 the period from which the kings of England claimed 
 the supremacy of Wales ; but for hundreds of years 
 the Welsh continued to struggle for their indepen 
 dence. In the thirteenth century, a civil war broke 
 out between the ruler of North Wales and his son. 
 The father appealed to the King of England, Henry 
 III., to assist him in recovering his authority. The 
 request was granted, with the condition that the prince 
 should become the vassal of England. The compact 
 was kept by the ruler and his immediate successor ; 
 but the next prince was refractory, and a war ensued, 
 in which Edward I., then King of England, subdued 
 the rebel. In a subsequent rebellion, the disobedient 
 vassal was killed, and Edward cunningly obtained the 
 consent of the Welsh to the creation of a Prince of 
 Wales, who should be a native of their own country. 
 
 " Queen Eleanor, wife of Edward I., resided at 
 Caernarvon Casiie, in Wales, when her son Edward 
 was born. The people claimed him as a Welshman,
 
 250 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 and his father made him Prince of Wales, since which 
 time this title has generally been conferred upon the 
 eldest son of the sovereign of England. 
 
 " Other rebellions, in which the Welsh have vainly 
 attempted to obtain their independence, have occurred, 
 the most important of which was the insurrection 
 of Owen Glendower, in the fifteenth century. He was 
 a descendant of Llewellyn, the last reigning Prince of 
 Wales. He studied law in London, but took to the 
 profession of arms, and followed the fortunes of Rich 
 ard II., till he was deposed, when Glendower retired 
 to private life in his own country. Henry IV., who 
 succeeded Richard, construed his absence from the 
 court as disloyalty, and confiscated his estates. Forced 
 by this act of injustice to take a hostile position he 
 proclaimed himself Prince of Wales. 
 
 " Glendower allied himself with several disaffected 
 noblemen of England, the principal of whom were 
 the Percys of Northumberland, and struck some heavy 
 blows at the power of the king. The confederates 
 divided the kingdom among themselves, the Welsh 
 chieftain taking Wales, of which he was formally 
 crowned Prince at his capital. In 1403 the prince 
 and his allies met Henry in battle, near Shrewsbury, 
 and were badly defeated, Percy being killed in the 
 action. 
 
 "After this event Glendower formed an alliance 
 with the King of France, and two armies of French 
 soldiers were at different times sent to his aid, with 
 which he fought several battles with varying success. 
 Being compelled to retreat into Wales, the French left 
 him, and for a few years he waged a guerrilla and pred-
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 251 
 
 ntory warfare upon the English. Though his power 
 was broken, he was still a formidable enemy, and 
 Henry V. offered a free pardon for himself and his 
 followers, if they would return to their allegiance. 
 While the negotiation for the pardon was in progress, 
 Glendower died. 
 
 " It has been the aim of the rulers of England to 
 remove the ancient landmarks of the Welsh, and as 
 similate them to their more powerful neighbors. 
 There is now no material distinction in the privileges 
 \>f the people of the two countries." 
 
 Mr. Mapps finished his lecture, and with the de 
 scription of Wales fresh in the minds of the students, 
 the order was given to pipe into the boats. The ship's 
 company took the train at Holyhead, and in an hour 
 Were at Bangor, on the Menai Straits, near the north 
 ern entrance. This arm of the sea, which separates 
 Anglesea from the main land, is twelve miles in length, 
 and the region through which it passes presents some 
 Very attractive scenery. The woods on both sides ex 
 tend down to the water's edge, relieved at intervals 
 by rugged steeps. The northern portion is lined with 
 beautiful cottages and villas, used for permanent or 
 summer residences of wealthy people. 
 
 A walk of less than two miles brought the students 
 to the Menai Bridge. At different points the straits 
 are crossed by five ferries ; but the navigation is very 
 difficult and dangerous, owing to the rocky character 
 of the shores, and to the fury with which the tide 
 sweeps through the narrow channel, and more than 
 fifty years ago, the attention of the government was 
 directed to a project for bridging it. The Menai
 
 252 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Bridge was commeenced in 1819, and completed in 
 1826. It is a suspension bridge, supported by chains 
 one hundred feet above high-water mark, so that ves* 
 sels may sail under it. The suspended part, over the 
 straits, is five hundred and sixty feet long. But the 
 bridge, though it was the wonder of the world for a 
 time, is by no means the most remarkable in the 
 world. There is one in Switzerland, and there are sev 
 eral in the United States, which exceed it in span and 
 height. 
 
 Half a mile below the Menai is the Britannia Tuv 
 bular Bridge, which, until it was rivalled by the Vic 
 toria Bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, was 
 the most peculiar and wonderful structure of the kind 
 in the woi'ld. It was built for the use of the Holy- 
 head and Chester Railway, and cost half a million 
 pounds. The structure consists of two rectangular 
 tubes, placed side by side, through which the up and 
 down trains pass. The location 'of the bridge was 
 chosen on account of a rock in the middle of the 
 straits, which afforded a foundation for the middle 
 tower. The tubes were constructed in a convenient 
 place, and each floated on pontoons, at high tide, to a 
 position beneath its permanent resting-place, from 
 which it was elevated at the rate of six feet a day by 
 hydraulic pressure, the masonry being carried up at 
 the same rate to support it until the requisite height 
 was reached. 
 
 It was a difficult undertaking, for the tide f in the 
 straits, rises and falls twenty feet, and often flows at 
 the rate of eight miles an hour, and it reflects the high 
 est credit on Stevenson, the distinguished engineer 
 who planned and executed the work.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 353 
 
 The students spent the night at the George Hotel, 
 near the Menai Bridge. After supper, Perth and 
 Adler operated for the Knights of the Red Cross, and 
 initiated the eight boys who had already pledged 
 themselves to engage in the desperate enterprise 
 which Wilton had devised. The ceremony consisted 
 only in instructing the candidates in the' dialogue 
 by which he was to prove that he was a Knight, and 
 which Murdock had committed to paper on the pre 
 ceding day, so as not to forget it. Only the most 
 daring and reckless fellows in the ship's crew had 
 been approached on the subject of joining the organi 
 zation, and all of these had been members of the 
 Chain League. They were delighted with the idea 
 of a secret society a fancy which seems to be very 
 fascinating to young men in their teens. 
 
 Murdock was too cunning to take any notice of cer 
 tain movements on the part of Perth and Adler, which 
 were intelligible to him, but not to those who were 
 not possessed of the secret of the Red Cross. He 
 expected an invitation to join the organization; if it 
 did not come within a reasonable time, he was deter 
 mined to have his fun, at the expense of the valiant 
 Knights. 
 
 In the course of the excursion into Wales, Perth 
 made four more additions to the force of the despera 
 does, who were to capture the Josephine. These 
 were new hands ; for among the old crew, there were 
 no more whom it was deemed prudent to admit to the 
 ranks of the knightly band. Ten more could easily 
 be obtained when the time was found to state the 
 scheme fully to each one, for it required at least an 
 
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 254 RED CROSS 5 R 
 
 hour of private talk to relate the particulars of the 
 enterprise, and initiate the convert. 
 
 The next morning the party proceeded by train to 
 Caernarvon, and after viewing its castle in which a 
 room in the Eagle Tower is shown as that in which 
 Edward II. was born started on a pedestrian tour 
 to Llanrwst. After they had left the town behind 
 them, and entered the mountain defiles, the country 
 became exceedingly interesting. Then, for the first 
 time, they saw Wales. A guide accompanied the ex 
 cursionists, and pointed out the objects of interest on 
 the way, and told who lived in each residence seen 
 from the road. Several small lakes were pointed out, 
 and their names given. In Wales, a lake has the 
 term " Llyn," as Llyn Padarn, Llyn Peris. " Moel " is 
 applied to smooth conical hills, and Moel Eilio was 
 shown. " Llan" means a church, and is thus used as 
 a prefix to numerous Welsh villages, as Llangollen, 
 Llanrhaiadr. 
 
 Most of the Welsh proper names are unpronounce 
 able by an American, because they have so many syl 
 lables which contain no vowels Tanybwlch, Craigd- 
 drwg. The boys cracked their jaws in vain attempts 
 to utter words they saw in print on the maps and in 
 the guide-books. At the Victoria inn, in Dolbadarn, 
 they stopped to dine. At the village of Llanberis, 
 about ten miles from Caernarvon, they halted for the 
 night. The capacity of the lodging-houses was not 
 sufficient to meet such a demand as the tourists made 
 upon them, and a large portion of the boys were 
 obliged to sleep on the floors of parlors and dining- 
 rooms no great hardship, however, to sailors, though 
 some of the new hands grumbled.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 255 
 
 The next day they ascended Snowdon, at the top 
 
 which they found hotels, restaurants, and stalls for 
 the sale of trinkets, the Welsh exhibiting not a lit 
 tle of the Yankee desire to make a trade, even under 
 the most difficult circumstances. Snowclon consists 
 of several peaks and spurs, the highest of which is 
 Moel-y-Wyddfa, whose extreme summit is only a few 
 yards in diameter ; and on a clear day part of Eng 
 land, Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, may be 
 distinctly seen. When the students ascended, the 
 weather was admirable ; indeed, it was this favoring 
 circumstance which induced the principal to under 
 take the ascent. 
 
 The descent was made by a different route, as much 
 to obtain a fresh prospect as to gain time on the jour 
 ney. Passing over the most northerly ridge, called 
 Crib-y-Ddysgwyll (we mention the name that our 
 readers may pronounce it when they have the tooth 
 ache ; possibly it would cure this distressing malady, 
 for it means the " Toothed Dish "), the excursionists 
 followed a zigzag and steep path, requiring the ut 
 most care, for a single false step would oftentimes roll 
 the incautious traveller over ragged precipices to cer 
 tain death. After a walk of nine miles from the sum 
 mit of Snowdon, nearly half of which was on the 
 turnpike, the tourists arrived at Capel Curig, where 
 they lodged under the same difficulties which had at 
 tended them the previous night. But they were too 
 tired, after climbing the rugged steeps, to complain 
 even of the " soft side of a pine board." 
 
 The forenoon of the following day was spent in 
 visiting the cataract of Pont Glyn Diffwys, the lakes,
 
 256 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 and the mountain passes in the vicinity of Capel Curig^ 
 which is one of the most attractive spots in Snow- 
 donia, as the region for a dozen miles around the 
 mountain is called. After an early dinner or rather 
 lunch, for a meal taken at meridian can hardly be 
 called a dinner in the United Kingdom the party 
 started for Llanrwst, ten miles distant. A halt was 
 made to enable the students to see Rhaiadr-y-Wenol, 
 or Swallow Fall, which, after rainy weather, is consid 
 ered the finest cataract in Wales. In Bettws-y-Coed 
 the travellers took another rest. The place is a favor 
 ite resort of tourists, especially anglers and artists ; 
 and the students saw more of Welsh customs and 
 manners than at any former stopping-place. Four 
 miles more brought the party to Llanrwst, where those 
 who were not too much fatigued were permitted to 
 visit the old church of St. Grwst, and other places of 
 interest in the town, till the departure of the train 
 which was to convey them to Conway, twelve miles 
 distant, on the Holyhead and Chester Railway. 
 
 "What station is this?" asked Paul Kendall of 
 the guard, when the train stopped a few miles from 
 Llanrwst. 
 
 " Trevor," replied the guard. 
 
 ' ; Trevor," repeated the captain, consulting his guide 
 book. " I don't see it." 
 
 " Don't you ? " laughed the doctor. " There it is ; " 
 and he pointed to a name on the page. 
 
 " That isn't it. He said Trevor, and this is Tre- 
 friw," added Paul, spelling out the word, which, how 
 ever, was not generally of much use in making out 
 Welsh names.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 257 
 
 " That is the local pronunciation of the word," 
 added Dr. Winstock. " The names of several Eng 
 lish places hardly differ more widely from the orthog 
 raphy than these in Wales. You pronounce Birming 
 ham with the primary emphasis on the first syllable, 
 and a secondary emphasis on the third Bir'ming- 
 ham'. The lowest class of people call it Brumajum, 
 or something like that ; but the word is said to be 
 spelled in one hundred and fifty different ways, and 
 one of them is Bromwycham. A well-educated 
 Englishman calls it Bir-ming-ham, with no secon 
 dary emphasis on the third syllable. Many cultivated 
 people call London Len-den, or Lend'n" 
 
 " I heard an Englishman, in Liverpool, say a pay- 
 ound for a pound, as a Vermonter calls a cow a CO.OTV." 
 
 " Hardly with the same accent," replied the doctor. 
 "Give the a its long sound, and leave out the y 
 paound. In many parts of this country, Welshmen 
 hold occasional meetings, at which prizes are offered 
 for the best performance on the harp, and the best 
 piece of poetry. These gatherings are called Eistedd- 
 fodd, or Civmrygyddion. How would you pro 
 nounce this last word?" 
 
 " I shouldn't pronounce it. I should as soon think 
 of swimming across the Atlantic as uttering such a 
 word," laughed Paul. 
 
 " It is pronounced Coom-re-gith-i-on," continued 
 Dr. Winstock. 
 
 " My jaws ache now with the efforts I have made to 
 pronounce Welsh names," replied Paul, whose atten 
 tion was attracted by a small steamer going down 
 Conway River. 
 
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 258 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 At Conway the tourists took the train for Holyhead, 
 and at dark were on board their respective vessels, 
 glad of an opportunity once more to sleep in their 
 own beds, but delighted also with the views of Welsh 
 scenery, and Welsh manners and customs, they had 
 obtained in their tramp through Snowdonia.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 259 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. 
 
 THE students had seen a specimen of North Wales, 
 and as soon as the recitations were completed on 
 the following day, the vessels sailed for Milford Haven. 
 The weather was fine, but the wind was very light, 
 and it was not till Sunday afternoon that the little 
 squadron came to anchor in the harbor of its destina 
 tion. Divine services were held on board both vessels, 
 Professor Hamblin officiating in the Josephine. 
 
 Though the officers had carefully observed the move 
 ments of the students on the tramp through Snowdonia, 
 no bank notes were seen or heard of, for the simple 
 reason that none of the party had any. Murdock had 
 been unable to enter the hold to obtain any of his 
 ill-gotten spoils, and had been forced to confine his 
 expenses to the five shillings allowed for the trip. 
 Wilton and Monroe were not allowed to go on shore, 
 and the twenty pounds the former had "borrowed" 
 of Murdock was not taken from its hiding-place. 
 
 So far as the outward requirements of discipline 
 were concerned, McLeish behaved with propriety ; 
 but he was cross, and rather surly. He was suspected 
 of something, stealing the captain's overcoat, he be 
 lieved, and he fretted sorely. He was making a
 
 260 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 mighty struggle to do well, and demanded all the 
 credit which belonged to his good intentions. The 
 officers watched him very closely, as they did Mur- 
 dock, for the reasons which have already been indi 
 cated ; and though nothing was said or hinted to him, 
 the supervision did not always escape his notice. 
 
 He was tempted to abandon his good resolutions, 
 and strike hands again with Rossfeldt and Tetnpleton ; 
 but the remembrance of what pretty Grace Arbuckle 
 had said to him, and the terror of meeting her again 
 after he had " fallen from grace," deterred him. He 
 could face the principal and Captain Kendall, but he 
 could not hold' up his head in her presence, if he 
 should prove false to the promises he had made to 
 her. Perhaps he might never see her again ; and 
 under the consciousness that he was watciied and 
 suspected of something which it had never entered 
 his head to do, he was vibrating between the right 
 and the wrong, doubtful which way to turn. 
 
 Mr. Lowington was very much perplexed by the 
 circumstances attending the loss of the eighty pounds. 
 Murdock had not said a word to any of the crew about 
 the theft, so far as he could learn, and his means of 
 information were good. On Sunday evening, after 
 the ship came to anchor at Milford Haven, he called 
 Murdock to him on the quarter-deck, and had a long 
 conversation with him about the matter. The new 
 hand was too cunning to betray himself, and positively 
 denied all knowledge of the money. The principal 
 compelled him to relate all his movements on the after 
 noon that the students went on shore at Holyhead, to 
 tell what boys he had spoken with in the Josephine 
 nd the Young America.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 26l 
 
 Murdock, as before, told the exact truth concerning 
 all his time, except the fifteen minutes he had spent in 
 the cabin of the schooner, though he did not think it best 
 to say anything about the Red Cross Knights. While 
 he was explaining his movements, Wilton happened 
 to be in the waist, and Murdock pointed to him, say 
 ing that he had spoken to him on his return from the 
 Josephine. It was of no consequence what he had 
 said to Wilton, and Mr. Lowington seemed to be 
 no nearer the truth than before. The new hand was 
 dismissed, and the guilt still lay between him and 
 McLeish. 
 
 Just at dark, Captain Kendall visited the ship in his 
 gig. In coming to anchor, Havenshaw, one of the 
 best seamen in the Josephine, had received an injury 
 in his foot, in trying to remove a kink from the cable, 
 and Paul had come on board for the doctor, as well as 
 to obtain instructions from the principal. Dr. Win- 
 stock was just going on shore with the chaplain to 
 attend a vesper service in one of the churches ; but he 
 hastened to the schooner in the professor's barge as 
 soon as he was informed that his services were re 
 quired. As Captain Kendall's gig was to wait until 
 he had had his interview with Mr. Lowington, the 
 crew were permitted to go on board of the ship. 
 Havenshaw, the injured seaman, belonged to the gig's 
 crew, and McLeish had been ordered to take his 
 place. 
 
 " I smell a mice, Ike," said Wilton, just before the 
 gig came alongside. 
 
 Standing in the waist, he had observed with inter 
 est the long talk that was taking place between the
 
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 principal and the new hand. It troubled him ; and 
 when Murdock pointed to him, it excited the direst 
 fears in his breast. Being a " lamb " would not save 
 him from condemnation, if Murdock told that he had 
 borrowed his money ; and this was what Wilton 
 believed he was doing. This was the " mice " he 
 smelt. 
 
 " What's the matter now ? " demanded Monroe. 
 
 " Matter enough. That greeny has told old Low- 
 \ngton that I borrowed his twenty pounds," replied 
 Wilton, excited by his ticklish situation. 
 
 " How do you know he has? " 
 
 " Saw him do it, and saw him direct Lowington's 
 attention to me while I stood in the waist. Here's a 
 pretty kettle of fish ; and they'll make me out an old 
 sheep, instead of a lamb, within twenty minutes." 
 
 " In another scrape ! " growled Monroe, almost in 
 despair. " Another term in the brig." 
 
 " Not yet ; don't give it up. We'll get out of the 
 scrape some how or other. Murdock didn't give me 
 any money. Don't you know he didn't? " 
 
 " But he did." 
 
 "No, he didn't. If two of us stick to it that he 
 didn't, k will be no use for him to stick to it that he 
 did. Understand, Ike ? " 
 
 " I understand ; but you have the money sewed into 
 your jacket ; and of course you will be searched." 
 
 " That's so," replied Wilton, with a troubled look. 
 " Come down into the steerage, and we will fix 
 things." 
 
 Monroe followed Wilton to his mess-room, where 
 the latter took the notes from their hiding-place in hit 
 jacket, and put them into an envelope.
 
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 " We must get rid of them at once, even if We have 
 to throw them overboard," said he. 
 
 " It's a pity to do that," added Monroe, thinking 
 what a heap of luxuries could be purchased for twen 
 ty pounds. 
 
 " I would rather do it than be caught. It won't do 
 to have the money anywhere in the steerage, for they 
 will look into the mattresses, and everywhere else. I 
 fancy that Gus Pelham told the principal all that I ever 
 said to him about the safe-key and the. sixty pounds." 
 
 Pelham did nothing of the kind. His sense of 
 honor would not permit him to expose a comrade 
 who had told him anything in confidence, even to 
 save himself from punishment. 
 
 " Perhaps we can find a place on deck to hide it," 
 suggested Monroe. 
 
 When they went on deck in search of such a place, 
 the Josephine's gig was alongside. 
 
 " I'll tell you what we can do," said Wilton, as the 
 gig's crew came up the accommodation ladder. " We 
 can give it to one of the Josephine's fellows to keep 
 till to-morrow. Then it will not be in the ship." 
 
 " Whom will you give it to? " asked Monroe. 
 
 " I don't know. Let me see who they are. There's 
 that Scotch fellow. They say he is a brick." 
 
 " But he has joined the lambs, they say." 
 
 " So much the better. He don't mean it, any more 
 than I do. Templeton told me about nim the night 
 we were put into the brig. They say he hates Low- 
 ington and Fluxion, and has had a jolly row with all 
 the officers of the consort. He's the fellow for me." 
 
 Perhaps this course of reasoning was fully in keeping
 
 264 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 with Wilton's former exhibitions of judgment and dis 
 cretion. He knew very little about McLeish. When 
 he and Monroe had been committed to the brig, the 
 Scotch rebel had come to them, expressed his sympa 
 thy, and offered to help them. This prompt offer of 
 assistance had prepossessed them in his favor as a 
 good fellow. Since McLeish had been transferred to 
 the Josephine they had not seen him, though they had 
 been informed of his plucky conduct, as they regarded 
 it, with Terrill, and had heard the boys laughing about 
 his reformation, or, in the phrase of " our fellows," of 
 his " joining the lambs." 
 
 "How are you, McLeish? I'm glad to see you," 
 said Wilton, walking up to the Scottish hero. 
 
 " Well, I thank you. How is it with yourself? " 
 replied McLeish, not very cordially ; for he was still 
 in a cross mood. 
 
 " You are a good fellow, McLeish : everybody says 
 that ; and what everybody says must be true. I am 
 sorry you went into the Josephine, for we don't see 
 much of you now." 
 
 McLeish softened, for this was the kind of stuff' to 
 feed him with. 
 
 " You got out of the brig, lad, I see," said he. 
 
 " Yes, after a while ; but I expect to go back again 
 soon," answered Wilton, lightly. 
 
 " Do you, man? Why so? " 
 
 " One of the fellows is trying to get me into a scrape. 
 There comes an officer ; don't say anything now ; " 
 and Wilton walked away from McLeish, fearful that 
 the interview might be charged against him, if any 
 thing happened afterwards.
 
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 As he crossed the deck, he encountered Murdock, 
 in deep thought, brooding over what the principal had 
 said to him. 
 
 "What were you saying to Lowington?" asked 
 Wilton, as they met. 
 
 "What was I saying to him?" replied Murdock, 
 who was not prepared to answer this question, and 
 thus acknowledge that he was suspected of stealing 
 eighty pounds from Captain Kendall's state-room. 
 
 " Yes, what were you saying to him ? " repeated 
 Wilton, sharply. " And what were you pointing to 
 me for?" 
 
 " Pointing to you? " 
 
 " That's what I said. You are not deaf are you ? " 
 
 " I'm not aware that it concerns you to know what 
 we were talking about," answered Murdock, embar 
 rassed by the fear that his shipmates would find he 
 was suspected. 
 
 " Yes, but it does concern me. I know what you 
 were talking about." 
 
 Murdock was really alarmed now. How should 
 Wilton know that the principal had almost accused 
 him of stealing the money ; or, at least, had hinted it 
 so strongly that his guilty conscience interpreted his 
 words as a direct charge? 
 
 " If you know, what do you ask me for?" replied 
 Murdock, with a weak effort to bluff him off. 
 
 " You can't deny it." 
 
 " Perhaps I can't." 
 
 " If you can, why don't you ? " demanded Wilton, 
 warmly. 
 
 *' What am I expected to deny?"
 
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 " O, you needn't talk ! Didn't you tell Lowington 
 that you let me have twenty pounds? O, you needn't 
 deny it ! " added Wilton, shaking his head at him. 
 
 Murdock was relieved. 
 
 " If it isn't any use to deny it, I won't do so," re 
 plied Murdock, mildly. " It was a mean trick you 
 played upon me ; and you may thank yourself if you 
 get into any trouble on account of it." 
 
 " Then you have owned up to Lowington that you 
 lied to him 'when you told him you had no more 
 money." 
 
 " That's my affair. If you wish to give up the 
 money now, I will make it all right with the prin 
 cipal." 
 
 u Give up the money ! Do you labor under the 
 delusion that you handed me twenty pounds?" 
 
 " I certainly do." 
 
 " It's all in your eye. You didn't do anything of 
 the kind ; and I can prove that you didn't," added 
 Wilton, emphatically. 
 
 Murdock was so pleased to find the real secret was 
 not suspected, that he was not disposed to quarrel 
 about his twenty pounds. He had given up the 
 money as lost ; but his companion's mistake sug 
 gested that he might work upon his fears till he re 
 covered it. Wilton did not wait to argue the matter 
 any farther, but returned to McLeish, who was wait 
 ing to hear in what manner some one was to get him 
 into a scrape. 
 
 " You were a good friend of mine when I was in 
 the brig," said Wilton, without explaining who his 
 enemy was. " I want you to help me a little now."
 
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 " I have promised to keep out of all scrapes, and to 
 behave well ! and I mean to do it," replied McLeish. 
 
 " This will not get you into any scrape it can't. 
 I only want you to keep this envelope for me till I see 
 you next time," said Wilton, slipping it privately into 
 McLeish's pocket. 
 
 "What's in it?" 
 
 " Never mind what is in it. You needn't know, 
 and then you certainly will not get into trouble. Don't 
 let any one see it, or know that you have it." 
 
 " All the gigsmen, pipe down ! " called the coxswain 
 of Captain Kendall's boat. 
 
 " Keep still, and don't say a word. Don't open the 
 envelope, and don't let any one suspect that you have 
 it. When I see you again I'll tell you all about it," 
 said Wilton, hastily, as McLeish moved off. 
 
 Wilton called Monroe as soon as the gig had gone, 
 and they had another interview with Murdock. Both 
 of them stoutly denied all knowledge of the twenty 
 pounds, and the new hand, if no one else, was satis 
 fied that Wilton was more snake than lamb. While 
 he was disappointed that he had not been able to in 
 timidate the rogue into returning his money, he con 
 gratulated himself that he was not known as a sus 
 pected person by his companions. 
 
 As for Wilton, he was in momentary expectation of 
 being summoned to the bar of the principal's justice 
 for not giving up the twenty pounds intrusted to his 
 care. He was prepared to deny that any bank notes 
 had been handed to him, and to fall back upon his 
 character as a young lamb to sustain him. He ex 
 pected the chaplain would be his friend, and help con-
 
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 vince the principal that Murdock wished to injure him 
 because he had turned over a new leaf. No summons 
 came from the principal, and he was surprised that it 
 did not come. 
 
 He waited nervously for the summons, till all hands 
 were called to evening prayers, and still it did not 
 come. He concluded that the case was reserved for 
 the next day ; but on Monday the exercises of the 
 Academy passed off as usual, and after dinner all 
 hands went on shore. Not a word was said about the 
 bank notes, and Mr. Lowington did not even look at 
 him. It was very strange, and he could not account 
 for it. The principal never passed over any alleged 
 wrong without an investigation, and he continued to 
 anticipate the summons. 
 
 In the mean time, McLeish, with the envelope in his 
 pocket, returned to the Josephine. The surgeon had 
 dressed the wound on Havenshaw's foot, and assuring 
 the patient that it would be well in a few days, left 
 for the shore to attend the vespers. 
 
 McLeish was not a Yankee ; neither were the sev 
 eral Mrs. Blue Beards Yankees ; but he was as anx 
 ious to know what that envelope contained as they to 
 know what the mysterious room contained which 
 proves that curiosity is not an exclusively American 
 vice. McLeish was troubled about two things : first, 
 he was sorry he had accepted the keeping of the en 
 velope, and second, he desired to know what it con 
 tained. It was sealed, and nothing was written upon it. 
 
 His strongest impulse was to carry it to Captain 
 Kendall, who would open it, and thus at the same time 
 expose its contents, and relieve him from all blame.
 
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 But a second thought assured him it was mean to ex 
 pose a friend who had confided in him, and he had not 
 the courage to follow what his reason convinced him 
 was the proper course. 
 
 On the afternoon of Monday all hands went on 
 shore, but returned at an early hour ; Mr. Lowington 
 found he was behind time in the carrying out of his 
 programme, for he had intended to be in London by 
 the ist of August, and it was now the 25th. The 
 delay had been occasioned by the non-arrival of 
 the new pupils at the time they were expected, and the 
 necessity of training the crew of the ship. He found 
 it requisite, therefore, to use the nights, so far as prac 
 ticable, in going from place to place. As a quarter 
 watch was generally sufficient to handle either vessel, 
 the officers and seamen were not deprived of any con 
 siderable portion of their sleep, those who served two 
 watches having had six hours of continuous rest 
 below. When the squadron came to anchor before six 
 in the morning, those who had been on duty were al 
 lowed to " sleep in " till they had made up their eight 
 hours. 
 
 At six o'clock in the afternoon, with Bristol Chan 
 nel pilots on board, the ship and her consort sailed for 
 Cardiff, where they arrived after a brisk run of twelve 
 hours. At two o'clock in the afternoon, after the reg 
 ular studies had been disposed of, all hands embarked 
 in the boats for the shore. Cardiff is one of the most 
 important towns in Wales, though there is nothing of 
 especial interest to attract the attention of the tourist. 
 It is the port from which the iron brought from Mer- 
 thyr Tydvil and other places, by railway and canal, 
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 270 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 is shipped. It is also an immense depot for the 
 shipment of coal. The extensive docks planned by 
 the Marquis of Bute, and constructed at his own ex 
 pense, have wonderfully increased the commercial 
 prosperity of the place. 
 
 A walk through the town satisfied the boys, and 
 they took the train for Merthyr Tydvil, famous for the 
 number and extent of its iron works, and its coal 
 mines. An opportunity was afforded to the students 
 to see the Welsh operatives in the mines and manu 
 factories, and to compare their condition with that of 
 men in similar employments in their own country. 
 The place is situated in a region celebrated for it 
 romantic beauty ; but the boys saw but little of tl 
 scenery, except from the windows of the railwaj 
 carriages. 
 
 With the Bristol Channel pilots still on board, the 
 ship and her consort sailed for Bristol. Though the 
 distance was only about thirty miles, the wind was 
 light that it required all night to make it ; and stean 
 tugs were employed in going up the Avon River. 
 For the first time the vessels went into a dock, if th< 
 at Bristol may be called by such a name. The water 
 was diverted from the Avon, and its tributary, the 
 Frome, and their original beds converted into a " float 
 ing harbor " by the erection of dams and gates at 
 either end of the enclosure. About two miles in 
 length of the Avon was thus converted into a dock, 
 affording sufficient room for a thousand vessels to 
 float. Between the termini of the dock, a deep canal 
 was made, so that the wateis of the river could pass 
 without going through the enclosure. The average
 
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 rise and fall of tides in Bristol is nearly thirty feet, the 
 spring tides being thirty-four. The Josephine was 
 moored alongside of the Young America, so that the 
 crews of the two vessels could mingle without the use 
 of a boat an experience as pleasant as it was novel. 
 
 McLeish still carried the envelope in his pocket, as 
 it had been given him by Wilton ; and if it had been 
 a coal of fire, it could not have annoyed him more 
 than it did. He did not even dare to look at it, or to 
 take it from his pocket, lest some one should see it ; 
 and just as soon as an opportunity was presented, after 
 the vessels were moored together, he went on board 
 of the ship for the purpose of getting rid of it. If 
 there had been no mystery about it, probably it would 
 have annoyed him less. He wished to know what it 
 all meant quite as much as to avoid the responsibility 
 of having it on his person. 
 
 He found Wilton, who was still dreading a summons 
 to the mainmast, where all questions of discipline 
 were settled, for Mr. Lowington tenaciously adhered 
 to naval practices. Wilton did not want the bank 
 notes yet ; the danger had not passed away ; but when 
 he saw McLeish approaching him, he understood 
 what he wanted, and had a plausible explanation ready 
 to induce him to retain the funds. 
 
 " I don't care to keep the paper any longer," said 
 McLeish, when the conspirator had conducted him to 
 a secure place for the interview. 
 
 " Why not? It don't harm you, and can't get you 
 into any trouble." 
 
 " I don't know that." 
 
 " Upon my word and honor, it can't get you into 
 any trouble. If it would, I'd tell you so."
 
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 " You didn't tal me what the envelope hald," sug 
 gested McLeish. 
 
 " I'll tell you all about it now," added Wilton, in a 
 whisper. " You know I went to London." 
 
 " I haird you did." 
 
 " My father sent me twenty pounds, which I sewed 
 into my jacket when those beggars of detectives caught 
 me. The money was in four five-pound notes, and 
 they are now in the envelope." 
 
 " Is this the truth? " asked McLeish, suspiciously. 
 
 " Of course it is ! You don't think I'd lie about 
 do you ? " 
 
 " Why do you wish me to keep it for you ? " 
 
 " A fellow got mad with me, and I expect he 
 told Lowington I have the stamps about me." 
 
 "Who is the fellow?" 
 
 " He's one of the new fellows. I expect to 
 searched soon, and if I am, Lowington won't find 
 the money upon me. I'll do a good thing for you, 
 McLeish, any time when you need it." 
 
 McLeish did not wish to keep the money any longer, 
 but Wilton's rhetoric finally overcame his scruples, 
 and he agreed to retain it for a few days more. 
 
 " You are a first-rate fellow, McLeish," continued 
 Wilton, who had one more favor to ask. 
 
 " That means that you want something more of 
 me," added McLeish, laughing. 
 
 " That's so ; and when a fellow has a good friend 
 like you, he don't hesitate to ask him to do a good 
 turn for him. I want to get rid of those bank notes. 
 I'm afraid they'll get wet and be spoiled. I have 
 no liberty, you know, and you have. You will go
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 3^3 
 
 ashore this afternoon, and you fellows in the Josephine 
 are not watched at all. Now, if you could just change 
 those bills for gold, at some store or banking-house, 
 you would do the best thing for me that ever one fellow 
 did for another ; and I'll do five times as much for you 
 any time you ask me. I will, whether you ask me or 
 not." 
 
 " I'll just do it," replied McLeish, who could see no 
 great harm in the simple act required of him. 
 
 The money was Wilton's, sent to him by his father. 
 Doubtless it was against the rules of the ship for him 
 to retain it in his possession ; but McLeish felt that he 
 had nothing to do with his violation of the regula 
 tions. Mr. Lowington did not countenance tell-tales, 
 and no student was required or expected voluntarily 
 to report the misdeeds of his companions. If ques 
 tioned, he was to tell the exact truth, whoever suf 
 fered thereby ; but, in ordinary cases, no one was con 
 sidered to be under obligations to expose the faults and 
 foibles of his associates. 
 
 McLeish promised to exchange the paper for gold, 
 and in the afternoon, when the students went on shore, 
 he separated himself from his shipmates, as he sup 
 posed, and entered Stuckey & Co.'s banking-house, in 
 Clare Street, where the exchange was effected. 
 
 The officers of the Josephine, jealous of the integrity 
 of the ship's company, had not forgotten the instruc 
 tions given them by the captain at Holyhead. Every 
 one of the four lieutenants and masters, who believed 
 that McLeish had robbed the captain's safe, was 
 watching him with the utmost care. Pelham saw him 
 separate himself from his companions, and cautiously
 
 274 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 followed him into Clare Street, where the bills were 
 exchanged for gold. As soon as McLeish had left 
 the banker's, Pelham entered, and wrote down the 
 numbers of the notes which the suspected student had 
 presented.
 
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 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 BRISTOL TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
 
 THAT proves plainly enough that McLeish stole 
 the money don't it?" said Pelham, when he 
 had related the incident in Clare Street, in which he 
 had taken part, to Captain Kendall, after their return to 
 the Josephine. 
 
 " I think it does," replied Paul, sadly ; for nothing 
 was more painful to him than the evidence that any of 
 his ship's company had been guilty of crime. 
 
 The fact that McLeish had exchanged four five- 
 pound notes for gold had been communicated to the 
 officers, who were directed to watch him very closely 
 until Mr. Lowington could be informed of the cir 
 cumstances ; for the principal had gone to the railway 
 station to make the arrangements for a trip to Birming 
 ham and Stafford on Avon. The twenty pounds in 
 McLeish's pocket felt heavy, and not only heavy, but 
 hot. He wanted to give up the money ; and as soon 
 as he had reached the deck of the schooner, he has 
 tened to find Wilton, in order to get rid of his uncom- 
 for.table burden. 
 
 Not less than four of his officers followed him to the 
 deck of the ship, and their eyes were all fixed upon 
 him. He went forward, but they dogged his steps.
 
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 Pie went below, and they went below. He returned 
 to the consort, and they returned. He tried again, 
 and this time six of them attended his steps, not in a 
 bod}', but scattered about, so that whichever way he 
 turned, he encountered a lieutenant or a master. He 
 was foiled again, and not only foiled,* but alarmed, for 
 it was almost certain to him that the movements of 
 the officers were not accidental. He was tempted to 
 drop the gold over the side of the vessel into the dock ; 
 but so closely was he watched that he could not even 
 do this without being detected. 
 
 This strict surveillance continued for half an hour 
 longer, when Mr. Lowington came on board. Paul, 
 almost as much grieved as though he had been con 
 victed of the crime himself, related to the principal 
 the evidence which had been obtained. 
 
 " I did not believe McLeish was the guilty person 
 before," replied Mr. Lowington ; " but this testimony 
 is direct, though not conclusive." 
 
 " I do not see where he could have obtained twenty 
 pounds in bills, unless from the safe," added Paul. 
 
 " I am afraid there is not much doubt in regard to 
 his guilt. You will direct Mr. Cleats to arrest him, 
 and bring him into your cabin," said Mr. Lowington, 
 as he led the way below. 
 
 The order was given to the boatswain, and he found 
 McLeish walking up and down the deck, waiting for 
 a chance to communicate with Wilton. 
 
 " You are wanted, McLeish," said Cleats, touch 
 ing him on the shoulder. 
 
 "Who wants me?" asked the alleged culprit, 
 startled by the summons.
 
 YOUN<? AMERICA IN FNGLAND AND WALES. 277 
 
 " The captain ! " 
 
 " What does he want of me?" 
 
 " I don't know ; I never ask any questions. I'm 
 ordered to take you into the cabin." 
 
 " I'll not go," replied McLeish, his bad temper 
 getting the better of him. 
 
 " See here, my hearty : don't make a fool of yourself. 
 The young miss won't pity you, if you behave silly." 
 
 " I'll go," added he, subdued by the reflection that 
 Grace Arbuckle would hear of his misconduct. " I'll 
 go, but I've not done anything wrong." 
 
 " All right, my lad. If you haven't, you may be 
 sure it will come out right ; for the captain was as sad 
 as though he had lost his grandmother when he 
 ordered me to take you down. He's sorry for you, 
 whatever is the matter." 
 
 McLeish was touched by this evidence of sympathy 
 on the part of the commander of the Josephine, and 
 followed the boatswain into the cabin, where he saw 
 the principal and Paul seated at the table, waiting for 
 his appearance. 
 
 u Do you know why you are sent for, McLeish?" 
 asked Mr. Lowington, when Cleats had retired. 
 
 " I do not, sir. I haven't done anything," replied 
 McLeish. 
 
 " Are you quite sure you have done nothing 
 wrong?" demanded the principal, mildly. 
 
 " Very sure, sir. I may have broken some rule, but 
 I've no done anything very bad." 
 
 " You were on shore this afternoon, with your ship 
 mates?" 
 
 " Yes, sir." 
 
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 278 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Have you any money about you?" demanded the 
 principal, squarely. 
 
 " I had sixpence left from my allowance," replied 
 the culprit, turning red in the face ; for he now under 
 stood what was coming, though he could not for the 
 life of him imagine how the principal should know 
 anything about his affair with Wilton. 
 
 " Have you only sixpence? " 
 
 McLeish was troubled. Experience had taught 
 him worldly wisdom, if not much absolute morality. 
 If he denied that he had twenty pounds in gold, the 
 big boatswain was within call, and his pockets would 
 be turned out only to prove that he had added false 
 hood to indiscretion, for he regarded the keeping of the 
 money, for Wilton only as an indiscretion. He could 
 not believe there was anything very bad about it, and 
 he decided to tell the truth. 
 
 " I have more than sixpence about me," he replied, 
 after a pause which looked bad for the boy who had 
 turned over a new leaf. 
 
 " How much have you?" asked Mr. Lowington, in 
 the same quiet tone in which he had thus far con 
 ducted the examination. 
 
 " Twenty pounds in gold ; but it does not belong to 
 me, sir?" 
 
 " To whom does it belong?" 
 
 Two weeks before, McLeish would have betrayed 
 his best friend as readily as he would have turned his 
 hand. Lynch and Grossbeck had lectured him 
 soundly on this tendency, for they had suffered by it. 
 He had caught from his companions something of 
 that spirit of boy honor, which, though based on a
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 279 
 
 genuine nobility of purpose, is often put to base uses, 
 and is carried to an extent which involves actual dis 
 honor and vice. 
 
 " I'll no tal," replied McLeish, firmly, but not in a 
 disrespectful tone. 
 
 " I think it is your duty to tell, McLeish," added 
 Mr. Lowington. 
 
 "I'll no be a tal-tale." 
 
 " You will leave me to infer that the money in 
 your possession does not belong to another, but to 
 yourself." 
 
 " It's not mine, sir ; but a MacGregor never betrays 
 a friend," added McLeish, who had proved that, how 
 ever true his ancestors were to their associates, the 
 present generation had sadly deteriorated. 
 
 The principal then stated that the safe of the 
 schooner had been robbed of eighty pounds in bank 
 bills. 
 
 " Do ye tal me that I robbed the safe?" demanded 
 McLeish, now highly excited by this new phase of 
 the case. 
 
 " I give you the opportunity to defend yourself by 
 informing me who gave you the bank notes, if any 
 one did." 
 
 " A MacGregor never betrays a friend," repeated 
 McLeish, warmly. 
 
 " You will remember that you were questioned 
 while we were lying at Holyhead," added the prin 
 cipal. 
 
 " I remamber ; and I was accused of stealing the 
 captain's overcoat a thing I naver did in my life." 
 
 " The overcoat was not stolen. You were ques-
 
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 tioned m order to ascertain if you knew anything of 
 the robbery of the safe. Now, McLeish, this looks 
 like a plain case. The safe must have been robbed 
 by you, or by another student, whose name I will not 
 mention. You have exchanged twenty pounds in 
 notes for gold. It is at least proper that you should 
 explain how the twenty pounds came into your pos 
 session." 
 
 McLeish considered. It seemed plain enough to 
 him that Wilton was the robber. New converts are 
 proverbially zealous, and having set up his artificial 
 standard of honor, he was obstinate enough to become 
 a martyr in adhering to it. Though the principal 
 kindly explained his position to him, and gave him 
 every opportunity to free himself from the charge, 
 McLeish positively refused to betray his friend. 
 
 Mr. Lowington- had some doubts. The fact that 
 Murdock had not spoken of the theft was against him, 
 and it was possible that he had employed McLeish 
 to exchange the money for him ; but as long as the 
 apparent culprit refused to give any information in 
 regard to the person who had intrusted the notes to 
 him, the principal could not do otherwise than com 
 mit him to the brig. Cleats was called, and this was 
 done after the gold had been secured. 
 
 The prisoner's berth, bag, clothing, and all his 
 effects, were very thoroughly searched for the remain 
 ing sixty pounds purloined from the safe, but of 
 course without finding the money. McLeish felt like 
 a martyr now. He was not guilty, and imprisonment 
 did not seem as it had before. He was innocent, and 
 his native obstinacy caused him rather to glory in his
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 2&I 
 
 martyrdom. He was a strange boy. By and by it 
 would be proved that he was not the guilty person, 
 and he could revel in the thought that the principal 
 had made a blunder. Under the influence of this 
 stupid fanaticism, his imprisonment became a positive 
 joy to him. 
 
 To all intents and purposes he was the thief while 
 he refused to explain how the twenty pounds came 
 into his possession ; or, to take the mildest view, he 
 was the accomplice of the thief the accessory after 
 the fact. He could not sp e this ; he did not want to 
 see it. 
 
 Wilton was terrified when he heard of the arrest of 
 McLeish, and expected every moment to be called to 
 an account ; but the next afternoon the officers and 
 crews of both vessels started for Birmingham, and not 
 a word had been said to him, or about him, so far as 
 he knew. The party did not return till the next night, 
 and he found an opportunity, as he and Monroe had 
 the run of both vessels while they lay alongside each 
 other, to have a talk with McLeish. 
 
 The prisoner proudly rehearsed his fidelity to his 
 employer, assuring him that a MacGregor never 
 betrayed a friend, and that he would rot in the brig 
 before he would open his mouth. 
 
 " But, Wilton, you cheated me," said he, reproach 
 fully. " You told me I could not get into any scrape." 
 
 " I didn't mean to get you into any scrape. I didn't 
 know the safe of the Josephine had been robbed," 
 replied Wilton, earnestly. 
 
 " You didn't, lad ! Yes, you did ! Didn't you tak 
 the money yourself? " interposed McLeish. 
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 282 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " No, I did not. I'm certain none of the fellows in 
 the ship knew that the safe had been robbed. I'm 
 sure I didn't." 
 
 " It's no use, lad, for you to tal me that." 
 
 " When was the safe robbed ? " asked Wilton. 
 
 "At Holyhead." 
 
 " Then you may know I didn't do it. I never 
 put foot on the Josephine till we moored in this dock 
 yesterday. You know I couldn't have meddled with 
 her safe. Did you see me aboard the consort while 
 we were at Holyhead ? " 
 
 " That's true, lad ; and it couldn't have been you, 
 any more than it was me," answered McLeish, con 
 vinced by this argument. 
 
 " I told you the truth about the money I did, 
 upon my word and honor," protested Wilton. 
 
 " All richt, lad ; I believe you now, and I feel 
 easier. I didn't like to stay in here for a fallow who 
 had been stealing money ;' but if you are no guilty, you 
 may trust me till the end of the world." 
 
 " I'm not guilty." 
 
 Wilton was selfish enough to let the prisoner remain 
 in durance as long as the offence required, which he 
 believed would be only a few days longer ; for Perth 
 had informed him that the ranks of the Red Cross 
 Knights were full, and as soon as the Josephine reach 
 ed a port where she could go to sea without a pilot, he 
 intended to put the grand scheme into execution. It 
 was understood that the squadron would next sail for 
 the Isle of Wight, and this would be a good locality v 
 for carrying out the enterprise. 
 
 The chief conspirator did not consider it safe to tell
 
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 McLeish what was in contemplation, but he assured 
 him that something would happen in a few days which 
 would set him at liberty. The prisoner teased to 
 know what it was, but Wilton kept his secret, and a 
 footstep on the deck drove him away from the brig 
 before his constancy was very severely tried. 
 
 After a three hours' ride by fast train the students 
 arrived at Birmingham at about six o'clock in 
 season to see a specimen of the city before they 
 retired. In thirty years this place has tripled its 
 population, being now next to Glasgow in size. It 
 contains nothing of special interest to the tourist, 
 except its manufactories of hardware. After another 
 walk through the town, the excursionists went to 
 Stratford on Avon, the birthplace of Shakspeare, 
 twenty-two and a half miles from Birmingham by 
 railway. 
 
 Ben Duncan, the poet, went into ecstasies when the 
 party entered the house where the immortal bard 
 was born. He " spouted " Shakspeare in quantity, 
 and declared that he had lived long enough. The 
 house has been purchased by subscription, and is kept 
 in as nearly its original condition as possible. The 
 boys wandered about the town for an hour, and some 
 of them were susceptible enough to realize that they 
 were in the midst of scenes on which the master poet 
 of England had gazed, and to be moved by the fact. 
 Ben Duncan did not recover from his raptures till 
 the train stopped on the verge of the city of Bristol, 
 to enable the guard to pick up the passengers' tickets. 
 
 As it was but five o'clock in the afternoon, and the 
 train stopped near the Ashley Road, Mr. Lowington
 
 284 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 decided to visit Mr. Muller's Orphan Asylum, located 
 in this quarter of the town. The founder of this insti 
 tution has a world-wide reputation as a philanthropist, 
 and his history is without a parallel in the annals of 
 benevolent enterprise. 
 
 George Miiller was born in Prussia, in 1805. \Vhile 
 a student at the university in his native land, he 
 consecrated his life to preaching and piety, and deter 
 mined " to go about doing good." He went to 
 England, and ap'plied for a place in the East where he 
 might preach the gospel. He lived for a time at 
 Teignmouth, in Devonshire, proclaiming the truth to 
 the poor, and living upon the scanty contributions of 
 a few friends. In connection with Mr. Craik, a Scotch 
 man, he opened a small chapel for the poor at Bristol, 
 where his attention was attracted by the wants of the 
 indigent children, and he established an institution 
 for the purpose of instructing them in their religious 
 duties. He commenced the enterprise when he and 
 his friend possessed only a shilling between them. 
 
 Mr. Miiller afterwards established his large " Orphan 
 Houses," in which he has clothed, fed, and educated 
 upwards of a thousand children. His life was a life 
 of prayer. If he wanted anything, he prayed for it, 
 and it always came. Sometimes it happened that 
 there was not a penny in the treasury of the institu 
 tion to buy bread for the children ; but Miiller did not 
 borrow he prayed for help. He never applied in 
 person to any human being for money or assistance ; 
 and he fully believed that the means to carry on his 
 work came to him in answer to his prayers. In this 
 manner he has received more thaa one hundred and 
 fifty thousand pounds.
 
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 Miiller's story was told to the boys by the chaplain, 
 who regarded the philanthropist as a " remarkable 
 man of God." The students were interested in the 
 institution, and no better lesson of goodness and piety 
 could be presented to them than this visit afforded. 
 
 At seven o'clock all hands were on board. Mr. 
 Lowington paid a visit to McLeish before he went to 
 his cabin ; but he found him as obdurate as before. 
 Supper was on the table in both vessels, and after 
 it was disposed of, though the students were very 
 much fatigued by the journey of the day, the order 
 was given to unmoor, and work out of the dock, for it 
 was full tide at eight o'clock. A steam tug had been 
 previously engaged to tow them down to the channel, 
 and before ten they were clear of King's Roads, at the 
 mouth of the river. The weather was pleasant, and a 
 moderate breeze from the southward indicated a pros 
 perous beginning for the voyage. 
 
 It had been the intention of the principal to put in 
 at Plymouth, Cowes, and Folkestone ; but he was so 
 far behind time, that he proposed to run direct for the 
 Thames. Paul Kendall hoped he would stop at 
 Cowes, and Mr. Lowington consented to do so, at his 
 request. The young commander blushed as he asked 
 this favor, and felt compelled to state the reason of it, 
 which the principal had deemed sufficient. 
 
 After the watch had been set that evening on board 
 of the Josephine, Paul went to his state-room, and 
 took from his pocket several letters which had been 
 received at Bristol. There was one from Grace 
 Arbuckle, which he read more than once. It informed 
 him that Mr. Arbuckle and his family had gone to the
 
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 Isle of Wight to spend a week with the friends with 
 whom they were staying near London. A previous 
 letter had announced that they expected to visit Cowes. 
 She hoped to see him there, and Paul hoped so too. 
 What would she say when she learned that McLcish 
 was in the brig again? For her sake he took more 
 interest in the young reprobate than he otherwise 
 would have done. As he thought of the fair reformer, 
 he went into the steerage, and directed the prisoner to 
 be brought before him. Taking him into his state 
 room, where they could be entirely alone, he talked 
 very kindly, but very plainly, to him. 
 
 " I didn't steal the money, Captain Kendall," pro 
 tested McLeish, with so much earnestness that Paul 
 was almost persuaded to believe him. 
 
 "I do not say that you did, McLeish, though I 
 believe you did," replied Paul, gently, but candidly. 
 
 " It's no fair for you to believe it, Captain Kendall, 
 when I tal you I did not." 
 
 " Then tell me where you got the twenty pounds." 
 
 " How can I tal you without betraying the secret 
 of another?" 
 
 " You are under no obligations to keep such a 
 secret. You are simply defeating the ends of justice, 
 and in doing so you become the accessory of the thief. 
 You are screening him, if there is any such person, 
 from punishment. McLeish, Miss Arbuckle will 
 probably come on board of the Josephine at Cowes. 
 What shall I say to her when she asks for you." 
 
 " Tal her I suffer myself rather than betray a friend," 
 replied the prisoner, proudly. 
 
 " Very well ; if you choose to persist in your present 
 course. I cannot help it."
 
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 " You will find out, Captain Kendall, to your sorrow, 
 some day, that I am innocent." 
 
 " It will not be to my sorrow, for I shall say to you, 
 as I say to you now, that it serves you right. If you 
 are not guilty, you have only to say who gave you 
 the money, and if your statement is proved to be 
 correct, you will be immediately discharged." 
 
 " I'll no betray my friend," added McLeish. " It's 
 no right to keep me in the brig without proving the 
 chairge upon me. Can you show that the bills I 
 changed for gold were the ones you lost?" 
 
 " No, I cannot prove it ; but you are not kept in 
 the brig for stealing, but for refusing to explain where 
 you got the twenty pounds, since it is against the rules 
 of the Academy for any student to keep so much money 
 about him." 
 
 " I'm content to stay in the brig till I die on that 
 chairge," added McLeish, with something like defiance 
 in his tones. 
 
 Paul, satisfied that nothing could be made out of the 
 prisoner, ordered him back to the brig. Pelham had 
 supposed that, when he took the numbers of the notes 
 in Liverpool, he had furnished the means for identi 
 fying them ; but neither Mr. Lowington nor Paul had 
 noted down the numbers of the bills, as very many 
 people in England do when they receive them. 
 Pelham's memorandum of the numbers had been 
 carefully preserved, and it was hoped that the banker 
 in Liverpool, who had paid them to the principal, 
 would be able to inform him whether they were 
 received from him. He had been written to on the 
 subject, and his reply was expected at London.
 
 288 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Wilton was beginning to breathe easier. He was 
 not called to account for keeping Murdock's bills, and 
 before the ship reached Land's End, he concluded that 
 the new hand had not said anything to him about the 
 matter. 
 
 " Now own up honestly, Murdock, that you didn't 
 say anything to Lowington," said Wilton, as the ship 
 was going through the channel between Land's End 
 and the Scilly Islands. 
 
 " Ah, but I did tell him all about it," persisted 
 Murdock, who did not consider it safe to take the 
 back track it would damage his veracity, if noth 
 ing else. 
 
 " What's the reason Lowington hasn't hauled me up, 
 then?" 
 
 " The principal knows what he is about," replied 
 Murdock, mysteriously. " I suppose he expects you 
 to deny the charge." 
 
 " Of course I shall, because you didn't give me any 
 money." 
 
 "Mr. Lowington is waiting till he can prove it, I 
 reckon," added Murdock. " No doubt he will be able 
 to prove it. Do you happen to know why McLeish 
 was put in the brig the other day at Bristol?" 
 
 By this time the robbery of the safe was patent to all 
 in both vessels, and Wilton gave the reason, as he 
 understood it. 
 
 11 That's not the reason," replied Murdock. " He 
 was put in the brig for refusing to tell who gave him 
 the twenty pounds, which he exchanged for gold. Do 
 you know Mr. Pelham took the numbers of those 
 notes at the bankers' in Bristol ? "
 
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 " What if he did?" asked Wilton. 
 
 " You can't see half an inch beyond your own 
 nose," added Murdock, contemptuously. 
 
 " Perhaps I can't, but if my nose were as long as 
 yours, I ought not to be expected to see a great ways 
 beyond it ; at least not without a spy-glass," retorted 
 Wilton. 
 
 " I thought you could smell a mice when there was 
 a mice round." 
 
 " So I can." , 
 
 " No, you can't ; your smellers are worse than 
 useless, or you would know what the principal is 
 waiting for." 
 
 "What is he waiting for?" 
 
 " Do you think I don't know where McLeish got 
 the twenty pounds ? " 
 
 " If you do, why don't you tell, and get him out of 
 the scrape?" demanded Wilton, uneasily; for the 
 odor of the mice was beginning to be apparent to 
 him. 
 
 "You don't know that I haven't." 
 
 "Haven't what?" 
 
 " Told where McLeish got the money." 
 
 " Well, where did he get it?" asked Wilton. 
 
 " It was my twenty pounds, of course, and you gave 
 it to him to get it changed for gold. Just as soon as 
 my father sends down the numbers of the bank notes 
 he paid me, your head will go on the block, Mr. 
 Wilton, and you will find out just how mean it is to 
 cheat a fellow out of his money." 
 
 Wilton tried to laugh and look unconcerned, but 
 the effort was a failure. He felt as though he had
 
 290 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 been suddenly plunged into a tank of hot water, 
 which was even then scalding him. 
 
 " When will your father send down the numbers of 
 the bank notes? " he asked. 
 
 " When we get to London." 
 
 " All right," thought Wilton, who intended to be at 
 sea in the Josephine before that time ; but he said 
 nothing. 
 
 " Your time will come, my lad," added Murdock. 
 
 " So will yours," answered Wilton, determined, if 
 possible, to get even with his tantalizer. " Though I 
 cannot see the length of your nose, I can see the 
 length of my own." 
 
 "What do you mean by that?" asked Murdock, 
 disturbed in his turn. 
 
 "Who robbed the safe? That's the question," 
 sneered Wilton. 
 
 "Who did?" 
 
 " It was done by you, McLeish, or the mainmast of 
 the Josephine, and neither McLeish nor the mainmast 
 did it," retorted Wilton, as he turned on his heel and 
 walked away. 
 
 Wilton had really no idea who had robbed the safe. 
 Since the theft had come out, it had been thoroughly 
 discussed among the students ; and they, like the prin 
 cipal and the officers, had come to the conclusion, 
 from their knowledge of the circumstances, that the 
 theft lay between Murdock and McLeish. The new 
 hand had a cold sweat. He felt that, after all the cun 
 ning and care he had used in covering up his tracks 
 after the robbery, his crime was almost sure to find 
 him out.
 
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 He was confident that the bills McLeish had ex 
 changed, were those of which Wilton had defrauded 
 him. If the prisoner explained where the notes came 
 from, he would be discharged, and the crime would 
 then be charged upon him where it belonged. He 
 was in despair, and was fully resolved to run away the 
 very next time he was allowed to go on shore ; and in 
 anticipation of this event, he followed one of the cooks 
 down into the hold that day, and recovered the stolen 
 money, which he had deposited in the bottle, smashing 
 it on a cask to get at its contents. 
 
 On Monday afternoon the two vessels passed near 
 enough to Eddystone Light-house to enable the stu 
 dents to see this wonderful structure, and being favored 
 with a fair and fresh breeze, came to anchor the next 
 morning in the harbor of Cowes, which is the prin 
 cipal seaport of the Isle of Wight.
 
 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 AROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
 
 OUR time has come, Perth," said Wilton, impres 
 sively, to the future captain of the Josephine, 
 after the sails of the ship had been furled. " We 
 mustn't put it off another day," he added, as he 
 chalked a red cross on the lapel of his companion's 
 coat, when he had already made one on his own. 
 
 " I am ready, and so are our gallant crew," replied 
 Perth, briskly. " The two vessels lie first rate for the 
 undertaking, and I don't see anything to prevent a 
 perfect success." 
 
 " Nor I, if the fellows move quick and obey orders ; 
 but we must have our arrangements all made, so that 
 we can move without a moment's delay." 
 
 " That's so ; but I know every fellow, and can 
 give him his instructions in two minutes," added 
 Perth. 
 
 " How many are there ? " 
 
 " Twenty-five, besides myself." 
 
 " In the first place," continued Wilton, " we must 
 all be left on board this afternoon, when the ship's 
 company go on shore." 
 
 " That's the difficult matter," said Perth. 
 
 "What's the difficulty about it? We have only
 
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 to cut up sharp enough ; or rather you have, for Ike 
 Monroe and I will have to stay aboard any how." 
 
 "What shall we do?" asked Perth. "There are 
 twenty-five of us, and it is not an easy thing for us to 
 cut up just enough to be left on board." 
 
 " I'll tell you how to manage it. In the first place, 
 you must chalk every fellow's back this morning." 
 
 " Chalk every fellow's back on the lapel of his 
 jacket, you mean," laughed Perth. 
 
 " Of course ; that's the meaning we give to the 
 words ; and if we understand it, that's enough." 
 
 " Go on ; what shall we do ? " 
 
 " At half past one, the lessons will all be finished ; 
 and before the fellows leave the steerage, Lowington 
 will announce, as usual, that an allowance of two shil 
 lings will be paid to each student, and all hands will 
 go ashore at two o'clock. The professors will go to 
 their state-rooms to put on a clean dickey. Lowing 
 ton will take his place in the main cabin to mark the 
 orders, and all the fellows will form a line to march 
 round the main cabin to receive their money. Don't 
 you see ? " 
 
 " Yes, I see ; that's the way it is always done. 
 What then?" demanded Perth, impatiently, for the 
 matter was becoming exciting to him. 
 
 " Then all the Knights, except Ike Monroe and me, 
 will quietly slip up the ladder to the deck." 
 
 " But they won't get their two shillings." 
 
 "What odds does that make? We shall find all 
 the money we want in the Josephine two or three 
 hundred pounds,, at least. You don't want the paltry 
 two shillings." 
 
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 294 RED CROSS > R 
 
 " Go ahead ; it is almost seven bells, and we shall 
 be piped to breakfast before you get through, if you 
 don't hurry up." 
 
 " Don't interrupt me, then. The boats will all be 
 ready at the swinging boom ; for when they are going 
 ashore in the afternoon, the boats are always lowered 
 at recess, so that there shall be no delay. As soon as 
 you get on deck with the Knights, make a rush over 
 the side, and get into the captain's gig, or the pro 
 fessor's barge, whichever one lies most convenient to 
 the accommodation ladder." 
 
 " But the boats will be at the swinging boom." 
 
 " So they will. Well, one of you must drop down 
 from the boom, cast off her painter, after sliding 
 down into her, and run her up to the gangway." 
 
 " We can manage all that." 
 
 " As soon as you get into the boat, up with your 
 oars, and pull away." 
 
 " Suppose we should find Peaks or Bitts, or both 
 of them, on deck," suggested Perth. 
 
 " Tell them Lowington wants to see them in the 
 steerage. As soon as you get off in the boat, some 
 one will be likely to observe you ; and there will be a 
 big row. Two boats will be sent after you, and, of 
 course, you will be caught and brought back. Just 
 say, when Lowington hauls you up, that the Jose 
 phines have more liberty than we do, and you were 
 going ashore to have a good time on your own hook. 
 You can be penitent, and snivel as much as you have a 
 mind to the more the better. Then you will be 
 sentenced to stay on board while the rest of the fellows 
 go ashore ; which will be just the thing we want."
 
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 " Hush up ! There's Murdock," said Perth, as the 
 new hand approached them. 
 
 " I hate that fellow ! " replied Wilton. 
 
 Murdock jumped upon the top-gallant forecastle, 
 where the conspirators were discussing their plan, 
 and took a survey of West Cowes, and the beauti 
 ful yachts which were moored near it. He glanced 
 at the pair of Red Cross Knights, and observed the 
 insignia of the order upon the lapel of their jackets. 
 While he stood there, all hands were piped to break 
 fast. Murdock fully intended that this should be his 
 last day on board. McLeish would " cave in " before 
 many days, and this event would be likely to fasten 
 the robbery upon him. It would not be a very diffi 
 cult matter to slip away from the chaplain, who had 
 the charge of the shore squad, to which he belonged, 
 and then take a steamer for Southampton. But he 
 was deeply interested in the affairs of the Red Cross 
 Knights, and in spite of the fears which disturbed 
 him, he could not resist the temptation to have some 
 fun at their expense. 
 
 As he went down to breakfast, he took one of the 
 red crayons used for map-drawing at the blackboards, 
 and made the red cross on his lapel. In the course 
 of the morning, before the studies were commenced, 
 every true Knight was duly chalked, and his instruc 
 tions given him. At recess, Murdock looked about 
 him, and saw who they were. The boats were 
 lowered, and dinner disposed of. By this time the 
 Red Cross Knights were as thick as rain drops in a 
 thunder shower ; for Murdock had een busy, even in 
 school hours, with his crayon. Not less than half a 
 dozen of tha officers had their " backs " chalked.
 
 296 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Just before the students were summoned to the 
 steerage to finish the exercises of the day, Howe, a 
 genuine Red Cross Knight, walked up to him with 
 his fore finger extended in index form. Murdock 
 promptly crossed it. 
 
 " Are you a Red Cross Knight?" said Howe. 
 
 I am." 
 
 "Has your back been chalked?" 
 
 "It has." 
 
 "Who chalked it?" 
 
 " A red Knight of the Red Cross chalked it red." 
 
 " All right ; but I didn't know it before. Are 
 you one, though ? " demanded Howe, puzzled by the 
 promptness and the correctness with which the cross 
 had been made, and the questions had been answered. 
 
 "Haven't I proved that I am one?" replied Mur 
 dock. 
 
 " You have, but your name isn't down on the roll." 
 
 " It ought to be." 
 
 The call to recitations disturbed the conference be 
 fore Murdock had obtained the information he wanted. 
 Perth and Wilton had been appalled at the number of 
 Red Cross Knights which appeared at recess. They 
 and other members of the order had elevated the fore 
 finger in position to be crossed, but the signal had not 
 been answered by any one except Murdock. 
 
 " There's a traitor among us," whispered Wilton, 
 as they went below. 
 
 " Not a bit of it," replied Perth ; "I tried half a 
 dozen of them, but not one could make the signal." 
 
 " But more tlfen fifty fellows have their backs 
 chalked."
 
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 " It's only a joke. Some fellow noticed the cross, 
 and marked the others. It is all right, and we will 
 put things through as we arranged." 
 
 When the recitations were finished, Mr. Lowington 
 made the usual announcement that the ship's company 
 would go on shore ; and the students were required to 
 form the line, and present their orders. The genuine 
 Red Cross Knights obeyed their instructions, going on 
 deck, some by the main hatch, and some by the fore 
 hatch, and only one at a time, so as not to attract at 
 tention. By the time the students in the steerage had 
 written their orders and formed the line, all the 
 Knights were on deck, and one more. 
 
 Murdock had not ceased to watch Perth and Howe, 
 who, he knew, were Knights ; and, as it was evident 
 that " the time had come," he was determined to know 
 what it all meant. Peaks, the boatswain, was not on 
 deck, but was mending the foretop-gallant shrouds, 
 which had been chafed on the passage from Bristol. 
 Bitts, the carpenter, was "planking" the deck in the 
 waist. Perth politely informed him that Mr. Lowing 
 ton wished to see him, and he hastened below, leaving 
 the deck without an officer. 
 
 Howe ran out on the swinging boom, and sliding 
 down on the rope to which the barge's painter was 
 made fast, cast off, and worked the boat up to the 
 gangway. The rest of the conspirators .tumbled in 
 *as fast as they could. The oars went up, and the boat 
 pushed off. Murdock, as soon as he saw the Knights 
 creeping up on deck, followed them, and tumbled into 
 the boat with the others. 
 
 " Avast, there ! What's up now ? " shouted Peaks
 
 298 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 from aloft, satisfied by the confusion with which the 
 students had embarked that the proceeding was irreg 
 ular. 
 
 He hastened down, and rolling into the main cabin, 
 where Bitts was waiting, cap in hand, for Mr. Low- 
 vngton to say what he wanted, 
 
 " Beg pardon, sir ; but did you or the officers send 
 ?he boat away?" inquired Peaks. 
 
 " What boat? " demanded Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " The barge, sir. She just left the ship with more 
 than twenty in her ; but I didn't see any officers," 
 added Peaks. 
 
 " Who was in charge of the boats? " 
 
 " Mr. Bitts, sir. I was aloft." 
 
 " I was in charge of the boats, sir," interposed the 
 carpenter ; " but one of the lads just came to me, and 
 said you wished to see me. I have been standing here 
 waiting your orders." 
 
 " I sent no one to you," replied the principal, who 
 readily perceived that some mischief was in prog 
 ress. 
 
 All hands were piped to muster, the money boxes 
 put away, and the business of the hour suspended. 
 The crews of the gig and first cutter were sent over 
 the side, and with Mr. Fluxion in one, and Peaks in 
 the other, they started in pursuit of the deserters. 
 The barge was pulling up the river, instead of to the 
 nearest shore. For the sake of keeping up appear-* 
 ances, Perth ordered the oarsmen to pull with all their 
 might ; but half of them were green hands, disposed 
 to " catch crabs," and the race was a short one. 
 When the two pursuing boats came up, the runaways
 
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 ceased rowing, and surrendered at discretion, accord 
 ing to the programme. Mr. Fluxion and Peaks 
 stepped into the baiige. 
 
 " Well, what are you going to do now?" demanded 
 the professor of mathematics. 
 
 " We don't have fair play," growled Perth, who 
 was in the stern-sheets. 
 
 " You will probably get fair play now." 
 
 " All the Josephines have their liberty when they 
 go on shore, and we would like the same privilege." 
 
 " Where were you going?" asked Mr. Fluxion. 
 
 " On shore, sir." 
 
 "What for?" 
 
 " Only to enjoy ourselves. We intended to come 
 back before night," answered Perth. 
 
 " Pull for the ship," said Mr. Fluxion, sharply. 
 " Take the helm, Mr. Peaks." 
 
 The boys pulled again, and the boatswain steered 
 for the ship. Murdock, who did not understand the 
 programme, was the only one who was disappointed. 
 With eighty pounds in his pocket, he was ready to 
 leave, and to enjoy himself as long as he could on his 
 ill-gotten treasure. He supposed the conspirators in 
 tended to land when they got into the boat, and the 
 opportunity just suited his case. Perth told him they 
 did not want him, but he would not leave, and delay 
 would be fatal. 
 
 " Murdock is not one of us ; let no fellow say a 
 word," called Perth, as soon as the boat put off. 
 
 Thus cautioned, no one did say a word, and Mur 
 dock was left ignorant of the real purpose of the 
 appnrent deserters.
 
 3OO * RED CROSS, OR 
 
 " Take their names before they come on board, Mr. 
 Fluxion," said the principal from the gangway, as the 
 barge approached the ship. 
 
 The list of the Red Cross Knights, including Mur- 
 dock, was written down by the professor, and the run 
 aways sent on board. They were hauled up at the 
 mainmast, in due form, and stated their excuse for 
 deserting, as they had to Mr. Fluxion. 
 
 " Your liberty is stopped till further orders," said 
 Mr. Lowington, just as Wilton had planned the af 
 fair. 
 
 The excuse which Perth had given troubled the 
 principal. It certainly was not fair that the crew of 
 the Josephine should have greater privileges than the 
 crew of the ship. Yet the former had an inducement 
 to keep them orderly, which the latter did not have, 
 and it would not be prudent to permit the half-disci 
 plined recruits of the Young America to visit the 
 shore without any restraint. There was no remedy 
 at present, for as long as the Josephines did not abuse 
 their liberty, it was not fair to deprive them of it. 
 The matter was left for future consideration and cor 
 rection. 
 
 The business of paying the allowances proceeded in 
 the steerage ; but before it. was finished, Captain Ken 
 dall appeared, and announced that Mr. Arbuckle, his 
 family and friends, had just arrived on board of the 
 consort. 
 
 " There's going to be a race between two yachts 
 this afternoon, sir," said Paul, with no little excite 
 ment in his manner. 
 
 " I am willing," laughed the principal.
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 301 
 
 "Mr. Arbuckle and his friends have come off to 
 our vessel to see them start," added Paul. 
 
 " I am still willing, and I hope you will entertain 
 them as well as your means will permit." 
 
 " I will, sir ; but I want to follow the race, for there 
 is a piping breeze, and I believe I can beateither one / 
 of the yachts," continued the young commander, with 
 enthusiasm. " Our officers and crew would rather run 
 with the race than go on shore." 
 
 " I am willing, Captain Kendall. Do you propose 
 to enter for the race?" 
 
 " No, sir ; the race is between those two yachts, 
 and no others enter. Captain Dashover, one of Mr. 
 Arbuckle's friends, is an old yachtman, and knows all 
 about the course, which is round the Isle of Wight. 
 I did not dare to invite them without your permis 
 sion." 
 
 " It would not have been proper for you to do so ; 
 but you have my permission. But, Captain Kendall, 
 none of our ship's company, except the doctor, have 
 even sailed in the Josephine, not even myself. Per 
 haps you will be willing to invite us," added the 
 principal, with a smile. 
 
 " I should be delighted to have the whole ship's 
 company ! " exclaimed Paul. 
 
 " I thank you, and I will put it to vote. If the 
 officers and crew prefer to accept your invitation 
 rather than visit the shore, I will allow them to do so." 
 
 Paul hastened back to the Josephine, invited his 
 party to follow the race, and ordered his first lieuten 
 ant to bend on the fore square-sail. On board the 
 ship, all hands were piped to muster, and the question 
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 3O2 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 put to them whether they would go on shore, or make 
 the excursion in the Josephine. The decision was 
 unanimously in favor of the race, especially as the 
 ship's company were to have a sail in the Josephine, 
 which they had desired ever since they saw her. 
 
 "What do you think of that?" demanded Tom 
 Perth, as soon as the vote had been taken. 
 
 " Our cake is dough again ! " replied Wilton, dis 
 gusted with the proceedings of the majority of the 
 students. 
 
 " As usual ! " snarled Monroe. 
 
 " A pretty scrape you have got us into ! " exclaimed 
 Howe. ' Instead of having a good time in the Jose 
 phine, we have to mope on board the ship all the after 
 noon. I would rather have followed that race than be 
 commander of the schooner in a runaway cruise." 
 
 "This is what we had our liberty stopped for is 
 it?" added Greenway, "Just to stick on board while 
 the rest of the fellows are having some tip-top fun." 
 
 " It is not my fault," replied Perth. 
 
 " Nor mine," said Wilton. " If the rest of the fel 
 lows had gone ashore, as we supposed they would, 
 we should have got off in the Josephine, as sure as 
 you live." 
 
 " Perhaps we should," sneered Howe. 
 
 " It's no use to grumble, fellows," continued 
 Wilton, recovering his equanimity in some degree. 
 " The fellows will go ashore to-morrow, if they don't 
 to-day, for the queen has a palace here, and they 
 all want to see it." 
 
 Perth and Wilton, after considerable argument, 
 partially reconciled the Knights of the Red Cross to
 
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 the disappointment. They assured the Knights they 
 would be deprived of their liberty the next day, when 
 the ship's company went on shore ; and an opportu 
 nity would be offered for the execution of the grand 
 scheme. They cautioned the members of the valiant 
 order to beware of Murdock, and not give him the 
 slightest hint. He had probably heard others repeat 
 the dialogue, and had learned it ; and during the after 
 noon, while the conspirators were moping about the 
 deck, the machinery of the Knights was entirely 
 changed. A new dialogue was invented, with new 
 signs and signals. 
 
 Murdock was more thoroughly disgusted than any 
 of the real conspirators. In ignorantly following the 
 Knights he had defeated his own purpose ; and while 
 his companions in misfortune were reorganizing their 
 mysterious band, he went into the hold, and concealed 
 the bank notes in another bottle, as he had done 
 before. He was vexed and disheartened. There was 
 no way to get on shore, and the grand crash which 
 would expose him could not long be deferred. 
 
 The boats transferred that portion of the ship's com 
 pany which had not been deprived of their liberty to 
 the Josephine, and the adult forward officers returned 
 to the Young America with the boats. Paul Kendall 
 was in a blaze of excitement. Grace Arbuckle was 
 on board his vessel with her friends. The anchor was 
 at a short stay, and they were waiting for the yachts 
 to start. The run was to be around the Isle of Wight, 
 about sixty-three miles. 
 
 The contending yachts were two English cutters ; 
 that is, they were sloop-rigged, with a topsail. Both
 
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 were of about the same tonnage as the Josephine. 
 The gun was fired, and the cutters slipped their 
 moorings. The Josephine had previously got under 
 way, and was standing out of the harbor. At the 
 mouth of the river, she lay to till the yachts were 
 abreast of her. The wind was on the port quarter, 
 and coming very fresh. The fore square-sail was set, 
 and some of the liveliest sailing the students had ever 
 beheld followed as the schooner stood down the So 
 lent, which is the name given to the westerly part of 
 the channel that divides the island from the main land, 
 while the eastern section is called Spithead. 
 
 The two cutters were probably not of the fastest 
 class of sailing vessels in the Royal Yacht Squadron, 
 for the Josephine outsailed them, because she carried 
 sail longer than they could. Outside of the island the 
 sea was very rough ; but while the Josephine made 
 good weather of it, the yachts labored, and were 
 finally obliged to take in their light sails aloft. When 
 they had passed the Needles, the vessels went close- 
 hauled against a head sea, till they were off the south 
 ern point of the island, when the " Stars and Stripes " 
 were a mile ahead of the " Red Cross" at the peaks 
 of the cutters. Here they tacked ; and the sea was even 
 rougher than on the other side of the isle, and the 
 Josephine gained more rapidly than before. Every 
 body on board, including the ladies, was intensely 
 excited, for the motion and the speed of the schooner 
 were really thrilling. 
 
 At eight o'clock the Josephine came into the 
 harbor, and was received with plentiful cheering by 
 the yachts and pleasure boats lying at anchor, which
 
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 were returned with a will by the students on board. 
 Half an hour later they joined in the applause be 
 stowed upon the victorious yacht, which came in 
 fifteen minutes ahead of her rival. 
 
 " You did not tell me that McLeish was in the 
 cage again, Captain Kendall," said Grace, reproach 
 fully, when, after the schooner had come to anchor, 
 she ascertained the fact ; for she had been too much 
 excited by the race to think of anything else during 
 the passage. 
 
 " I did not wish to spoil the pleasure of your ex 
 cursion," replied Paul, who proceeded to give her the 
 history of her protege's misconduct. 
 
 "Will you let me see him again?" she asked. 
 
 " Certainly, if you desire it." 
 
 McLeish was brought into the cabin by Cleats, 
 while all the rest of the party were on deck watching 
 the yachts. 
 
 " I am very sorry you are again a prisoner, Mr. 
 McLeish," said she, after shaking hands with the cul 
 prit. 
 
 " It's no my fault this time, miss. I've done my 
 bast, but I couldn't betray my friend." 
 
 " But if anybody is a thief or a robber, he ought 
 not to be your friend, or any good man's friend," 
 replied Grace. 
 
 " My friend is not a thief, nor a robber. He came 
 honestly by the money, or I would tal all about it." 
 
 "How do you know he did?" 
 
 " I know very well. He only broke through one 
 of the regulations, and that's no very bad. Even the 
 principal says we a*e not to give voluntary testimony 
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 306 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 against our shipmates for breaking the rules," pro 
 tested McLeish. 
 
 " But the safe has been robbed, and the officers 
 believe you are the guilty one." 
 
 " I am not, miss ; and as long as I am innocent, 
 they may just think what they please." 
 
 " This is wrong ; you are helping to conceal the 
 guilty person." 
 
 u You don't understand it, Miss Arbuckle. Will 
 you promise not to speak to any one about it, if I 
 tal you the whole story?" 
 
 " I will not promise," replied Grace, promptly. 
 
 " I would like to tal you, for I don't wish to have 
 you think I am guilty." 
 
 " I can't help believing so while you behave in this 
 .extraordinary manner," added she, warmly. 
 
 " I am not guilty, and my friend is not guilty." 
 
 " If you can prove to me that your friend is not 
 guilty, I will not mention his name," she continued, 
 after a little reflection. 
 
 McLeish was satisfied, and told the whole story of 
 his relations with Wilton, after sending Cleats out of 
 the cabin. He gave her the name of tjhe bankers, 
 from whom Wilton, in his desire to make his explana 
 tion plausible, declared he had obtained the money. 
 
 " If he obtained the notes of T. Wiggin & Co., as 
 he says, I shall believe you are innocent. I will go 
 there myself when we reach London, and ascertain," 
 said Grace. 
 
 " If you find Wilton did not get the money as he 
 told me, you may just tal the captain what I say as 
 soon as you please," replied McLeish. " If my friend 
 cheated me, I don't care what becomes of him."
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 30? 
 
 " I will keep your secret, but I am sorry you will 
 have to stay in the brig several days more." 
 
 " As long as I am innocent, I just don't care," 
 laughed McLeish. " I have labored hard to be good. 
 I think you are an angel, and you " 
 
 " Thank you ! " interposed Grace. " I hope, O, I 
 do hope, you will be proved innocent." 
 
 "I shall." 
 
 Grace knocked at the door of Captain Kendall's 
 state-room, and Paul joined her. The prisoner was 
 sent back to the brig, and the fair reformer acknowl 
 edged that she had not been able to change his 
 
 o o 
 
 purpose. 
 
 The crew of the Young America returned to the 
 ship, the passengers were landed, and the day of ex 
 citement was finished.
 
 508 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 UP THE THAMES. 
 
 THE afternoon of the next day was devoted to the 
 visit on shore. The Knights of the Red Cross 
 waited with feverish impatience for the arrangements 
 to be completed. They were confident they should 
 be kept on board, and an opportunity thus afforded 
 them to carry out their daring plan in regard to the 
 Josephine. They were punished still further, and 
 obliged to remain on board, as they had anticipated, 
 and a boat was left on the davits for their especial use, 
 apparently. 
 
 The shore party landed at West Cowes, and by in 
 vitation paid a visit to the Old Castle, now converted 
 into the Royal Yacht Squadron Club-house. It was 
 a circular fort built by Henry VIII. for the defence of 
 the coast. It is now a regular club-house, having a 
 dining-room, library, reading-room, and other apart 
 ments. The harbor was full of yachts belonging to 
 the club, for Cowes is its headquarters from May to 
 November of each year. 
 
 The Royal Yacht Club is a great institution. It is 
 composed of about one hundred and fifty members 
 noblemen and gentlemen who are owners of yachts 
 of from forty to four hundred and fifty tons. The
 
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 tonnage of the yachts belonging to the squadron ex 
 ceeds ten thousand tons, and gives employment to 
 fourteen hundred seamen. The association is gener 
 ously encouraged by the government, for it fosters and 
 keeps alive a taste for nautical affairs, and is a nursery 
 for the navy. Three days in August of each year 
 are devoted to regattas, when the yachts sail for the 
 plate presented by the queen, valued at one hundred 
 guineas. 
 
 Cowes is composed of two parts, one on each side of 
 Medina river, which at its mouth is about a mile wide. 
 The two points of land were formerly called the 
 " East Cow," and " West Cow," from which its pres 
 ent name is derived. The party crossed the ferry, and 
 obtained a partial view of Norris Castle and Osborne 
 House, the latter being the sea-shore residence of her 
 majesty, and the former was occasionally used by the 
 Duchess of Kent, the mother of the queen. The 
 Osborne mansion is an Italian villa on a large scale, 
 with a flag tower one hundred and twelve feet high, 
 and a clock tower ninety feet high. Prince Albert, 
 it is said, assisted in making the designs for the 
 house. 
 
 The park extends down to the sea-shore, where 
 there are bathing-houses for the use of the royal 
 household. Half a mile from the house is a roman 
 tic Swiss cottage, where the brood of young princesses 
 used to amuse themselves in doing kitchen and dairy 
 work. Adjoining this cottage are the gardens where 
 in these young ladies used to cultivate vegetables with 
 their own hands ; and it is said that ' k Her Roy a] 
 Highness, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess
 
 31O RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Royal of England and of Prussia," has vegetables sent 
 to her from this garden up to the present time. She 
 was a good girl, but probably she could not make her 
 living by raising potatoes and cabbages. 
 
 The Osborne estate contains two thousand acres, 
 most of it, of course, being used for mere pleasure or 
 ornamental purposes. Her majesty can ride eight 
 miles without leaving her own grounds. Yet the 
 queen occupies this residence only a few weeks of 
 each year. Royalty is an expensive luxury, for the 
 sovereign keeps and occupies four palaces Bucking 
 ham, Windsor, Balmoral, and Osborne. Her majes 
 ty's " privy purse " amounts to one million seven hun 
 dred and twenty-five thousand dollars. This is the 
 annual allowance paid to her by the government, in 
 addition to which she has an immense private fortune. 
 The Prince of Wales has two hundred thousand dol 
 lars a year, besides his private revenues, and his wife 
 fifty thousand dollars. Other members of the royal 
 family are paid from fifteen to seventy-five thousand 
 dollars out of the nation's pocket. Prince Alfred has 
 three times the salary of the President of the United 
 States. 
 
 At six o'clock the excursionists reached the landing- 
 place at East Cowes, where the boats were waiting 
 for them in charge of the adult forward officers. The 
 Josephine still lay at her moorings a fact which may 
 not be credible to the reader, after being informed of 
 the well-laid plans of Wilton, Perth, and other mem 
 bers of the valiant order of Red Cross Knights. Ev 
 erything had been left on board of the ship and her 
 consort, apparently as the prophets had predicted.
 
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 The cooks and under stewards were the only persons 
 left in the vessels, so far as the conspirators knew. 
 
 " All ready ! " said Perth, as soon as the boats had 
 left the ship. " Now is our time ! " 
 
 " Don't be in a hurry, Tom," interposed Wilton. 
 " We inusn't let the shore party see us." 
 
 "What if they do see us? We can get the Jose 
 phine under way before they can reach her." 
 
 *' Perhaps we can ; but " 
 
 " We can slip the cable ! " said Perth, impatiently. 
 
 " And go to sea without any anchor, or with only 
 the heavy spare one ! You are too fast, Perth. Just 
 wait till Lowington crosses over to the other side of 
 the river, where he won't see what we are about. 
 There isn't more than a six-knot breeze blowing." 
 
 " What odds does that make?" 
 
 " They will chase us. Lowington would get a 
 steamer, and be after us. We must have two or 
 three hours' start of him, or it's no use," said Wil 
 ton, decidedly. 
 
 Perth considered this good logic, and was content 
 to wait. In less than an hour the boats of the squad 
 ron crossed the river, and disappeared within a basin. 
 There was no longer any reason for delay, and the 
 conspirators brought up their pea-jackets. The cooks 
 and stewards were at work below, getting supper 
 and preparing the tables. No one was to be seen 
 on the deck of the Josephine, and everything seemed 
 to be remarkably favorable for the execution of the 
 scheme. 
 
 " Man the falls ! " shouted Perth, when all were 
 ready.
 
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 " Where are you going? " asked Murclock, when he 
 was satisfied something unusual was in progress. 
 
 "What's that to you, Greeny?" replied Wilton, in 
 the most unamiable of tones. 
 
 " If you are going on shore, I want to go with you," 
 answered Murdock. 
 
 " You can't go with us. We don't believe in 
 you." 
 
 " Let me go with you that's a good fellow." 
 
 " No, sir ! " replied Wilton, decidedly. " I won't 
 have anything to do with you any how." 
 
 "Why not?" 
 
 " Why not, you humbug ! Didn't you lie to Low- 
 ington, and tell him I had some money of yours?" 
 
 " No, I didn't. I sold you. I haven't said a word 
 to the principal about the 'money, and don't mean to 
 do so." 
 
 " You can't humbug me. I know you did." 
 
 " Upon my word I did not ! You know he hasn't 
 said a word to you." 
 
 " What did you tell me you did for?" 
 
 " Only to tease you, just as you teased me. Let me 
 go with you that's a good fellow." 
 
 But it did not suit Wilton's purpose to have Mur 
 dock go, even if all grounds of prejudice against the 
 applicant had been removed. 
 
 " Bear a hand, and be lively, fellows," said Wilton 
 to his companions. 
 
 u I'll give you something if you'll let me go," per 
 sisted Murdock. 
 
 "What will you give me?" asked Wilton, hardly 
 heeding him.
 
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 " I'll give you five pounds," added the applicant, 
 determined to overcome all obstacles by a liberal 
 offer. 
 
 " No," replied Wilton, who was fearful that the new 
 hand would defeat his plan if permitted to join the 
 party. 
 
 " I'm a Red Cross Knight, you know." 
 
 " Who gave you the sign ? " demanded Wilton. 
 
 " I heard you telling it to Monroe, in the steerage. 
 I pretended to be asleep afterwards," laughed the new 
 hand. " I will give you ten pounds." 
 
 " No, you eavesdropper ! " growled Wilton. 
 
 " I'll give you twenty." 
 
 " Where's your money ? " 
 
 " Down below. I'll go for it." 
 
 "Where did you get twenty pounds?" asked Wil 
 ton, interested in spite of himself. 
 
 " My father sent it to me in a letter." 
 
 " Come, Wilton ! What are you about ! " inter 
 posed Perth. " We are all ready to lower the boat." 
 
 " Lower away then ! " 
 
 " What does all this mean ? " demanded Mr. Fluxion, 
 who had just come up the companion-way, and at this 
 moment stepped into the midst of the boys. 
 
 The conspirators were stunned and appalled by his 
 presence. The professor of mathematics had been 
 troubled with a severe sick headache, and instead of 
 going on shore, had lain down in his state-room, di 
 rectly under the part of the deck where the students 
 stood. 
 
 " So you are going ashore are you ? " continued 
 he, sharply. 
 
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 314 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 The boys who had hold of the fall ropes belayed 
 them again. Mr. Fluxion was a decided person, and 
 the idea of running away before his eyes did not occur 
 to them. They retreated from the spot, and looked as 
 sheepish as though they had been caught in the act of 
 stealing chickens. He ordered one of the conspirators 
 to throw the coats out of the boat, and drove them all 
 below. 
 
 " Our game is up ! " said Wilton, when they reached 
 the steerage. 
 
 " I had no idea Fluxion was on board," replied 
 Perth. 
 
 " No matter ; our time will come," added Wilton. 
 " I won't give it up yet." 
 
 " Nor I. Fluxion has no idea what we were going 
 to do." 
 
 "What were you going to do?" asked Murdock, 
 who had mingled with the conspirators. 
 
 " We were going on shore to ask the town-pump 
 where you got twenty pounds," answered Wilton. 
 
 " I haven't got any twenty pounds. I was fooling 
 you," said Murdock, fearful that he might have injured 
 himself by his generous offer. 
 
 The conspirators kept their own counsel better than 
 conspirators usually do, and Murdock was none the 
 wiser for anything he had heard. When Mr. Low- 
 ington came on board with the ship's company, the 
 irregular proceedings of the twenty-six students under 
 going punishment were reported to him, and they 
 were at once summoned to the tribunal at the main 
 mast for discipline. Murdock hung back, for he did 
 not regard himself as one of the guilty party ; but
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 315 
 
 Mr. Fluxion ordered him to toe the mark with the 
 others. 
 
 " I was not going in the boat," pleaded he. 
 
 " You were standing by, talking to Wilton, when I 
 came on deck," said Mr. Fluxion. 
 
 " But I wasn't going in the boat, and I didn't know 
 anything about it till I saw them together." 
 
 "Was Murdock going with you, Wilton?" asked 
 Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " No, sir." 
 
 " That will do, Murdock ; you may go," added the 
 principal. 
 
 " He offered me twenty pounds to let him go with 
 us," added Wilton, maliciously. 
 
 " Twenty pounds ! " exclaimed Mr. Lowington, a 
 large gleam of light flashing into his mind. 
 
 " I was only funning, sir ; I have no twenty pounds," 
 interposed the new hand, aghast at this revelation. 
 
 It was not necessary to settle the matter then, but 
 Murdock's offer of twenty pounds was the most im 
 portant part of the whole transaction, for it was the 
 key to much that had not yet been explained. The 
 attempt of Wilton and his party to go on shore with* 
 out permission was simply an act of disobedience, 
 which could be easily atoned for, and which was to 
 be expected from such boys as they were. It sug 
 gested that so many of the students should not be 
 left on board without some one to take charge of 
 them, and Mr. Fluxion's sick headache proved to be 
 a fortunate event. The six and twenty culprits were 
 duly lectui-ed for their misconduct, and sentenced to 
 be deprived of three days' liberty on shore, under the
 
 316 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 impression of the principal that they only meant to 
 visit the town in the boat, and return at night. Of 
 course no one outside of the order of the Knights 
 had the remotest suspicion that they intended to 
 capture the Josephine, and run away to sea in her. 
 
 As soon as supper had been disposed of, the pilots 
 came on board of the vessels, and they sailed for Lon 
 don. That evening the principal had another long 
 talk with Murdock, who still denied that he was in 
 earnest when he offered twenty pounds for a passage 
 to the shore ; and the young rascal felt that it would 
 have been better for him to give fifty pounds than 
 remain on board any longer. He was so artful and 
 so persistent in his denial that Mr. Lowington was 
 unable to satisfy himself in regard to the guilt of the 
 suspected student ; but his impression was stronger 
 than before that he was the robber of the safe. 
 
 Thus far the plan to run away with the Josephine 
 was a failure ; but the conspirators were fully prepared 
 to carry out their purpose as soon as the circumstances 
 would permit. On the passage to the Thames, the 
 Red Cross Knights were cautioned to be extremely 
 careful, and never to speak of the affairs of the order, 
 and especially of the grand scheme, where there 
 was the slightest possibility of being overheard. 
 Nothing was to be said in the steerage or on deck ; 
 only when aloft, or out on the bowsprit, were the 
 Knights allowed to allude to the business of the asso 
 ciation. This intense secrecy rendered the affair all 
 the more exciting and fascinating. 
 
 Wilton's trials were not over when the principal 
 had dismissed him, for the chaplain, fearful of the
 
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 safety of his young lamb, lectured him for half an 
 hour on the folly and wickedness of disobedience in 
 general, and of his own disobedience in particular. If 
 the conspirator had had even an apology for a heart, he 
 would have been touched by the earnest and faithful 
 efforts of the simple-minded but thoroughly good and 
 pious man. He was no match for the cunning of an 
 unprincipled student, but he was so gentle, tender, and 
 loving, so truly earnest and Christian in his desire to 
 promote the moral and spiritual welfare of the stu 
 dents, that, with few exceptions, they honored and 
 respected him, while they smiled at his simplicity. 
 
 The wind was light from the south-west all night, 
 and the squadron was off Beachy Head at seven bells 
 in the morning ; but it breezed up fresh in the fore 
 noon, and in the afternoon the vessels passed within 
 a few miles of Folkestone and Dover. These places 
 are the points from which the steamers start for 
 France, in the two principal lines between London 
 and Paris. The time by either of these routes is about 
 ten hours. The sea passage from Folkestone to 
 Boulogne is only two hours ; from Dover to Calais, 
 one hour and a half. The steamers of the latter line 
 leave at uniform hours through the season, while those 
 of the former leave only at high tide. 
 
 As the vessels sailed up the Straits, one of the 
 steamers of the Folkestone line came out of the har 
 bor, Beaded for Boulogne. She was a small, " one- 
 horse" affair for such an important route, and the 
 students could not help comparing her with the pala- 
 tia 1 steamers which ply on Long Island Sound. They 
 are stanch, strong, and weatherly vessels ; but Ameri- 
 
 27 *
 
 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 can enterprise would not tolerate such insignificant 
 boats on such a great thoroughfare. 
 
 The vessels continued on their way through the 
 Straits, and as the day was clear, the students obtained 
 a distant view of the French coast. Ramsgate and 
 Margate, popular with the Londoners as watering- 
 places, were passed, and about dark the vessels 
 reached the Nore Light Ship, which is moored at the 
 mouth of the Thames. Twenty miles farther up is 
 Gravesend, where the squadron was taken in tow by 
 a couple of tugs, and at midnight came to anchor oft' 
 Greenwich Hospital. The principal had decided 
 to lie at this point, rather than in the crowded river 
 above, where it would be more difficult to control the 
 students. Greenwich is about five miles below Lon 
 don Bridge, with which there is frequent communica 
 tion by railway or steamer. 
 
 In the morning the rigging of both vessels was 
 crowded with students eager to view the surround 
 ings. They gazed with wonder and admiration at 
 the lofty piles of buildings composing the Hospital, 
 and watched the strange craft which went up and 
 down the river. In the forenoon, while the students 
 were attending to their lessons, the head steward of 
 the ship was sent up to London to procure the mail 
 for the squadron. 
 
 Among his letters, Paul found one from Grace. 
 She had been with her father to T. Wiggin & Co., 
 and ascertained that no money had been paid to C. 
 Wilton, but there was a credit for twenty pounds in 
 his favor, and another for the same amount for I. 
 Monroe. Grace, in accordance with her instructions,
 
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 then informed Paul that McLeish had received the 
 twenty pounds from Wilton, who falsely alleged that 
 he had drawn this sum at the bankers' in London. 
 
 As soon as the recitations were finished, Paul 
 hastened on board of the ship with his letter. 
 
 Peaks was ordered to commit Wilton to the brig, 
 and Captain Kendall returned to the Josephine to 
 release McLeish. The prisoner was brought into the 
 cabin to receive the explanation of this order. 
 
 " I told you I was innocent," said he, triumphantly. 
 
 " But you were not innocent so long as you con 
 cealed the person who gave you the bills," replied the 
 captain. " Your confinement in the brig for a week 
 was perfectly just, and you may thank your own folly 
 for it. Wilton lied to you." 
 
 , " It is not possible he robbed the safe, for he 
 was no in the Josephine while at Holyhead." 
 
 " That may be, but the 'principal has the means of 
 tracing the money." 
 
 u Wilton cheated me, or I would not have betrayed 
 him, even to the young lady," added McLeish. 
 
 " So far you have done well. This evening, after 
 the students return from the shore, you will go on 
 board the ship, and the whole affair will be investi 
 gated," said Paul, as he dismissed the prisoner. 
 
 The boats were all ready, and immediately pulled 
 for the landing stage at Greenwich. The principal 
 object of interest in the town is the Hospital for Infirm 
 Seamen. It contains accommodations for twenty- 
 seven hundred and ten persons, all of whom must be 
 seamen or royal marines ; and here some of the 
 veterans of England's great naval battles may be seen.
 
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 The buildings composing the Hospital are arranged so 
 as to enclose a square. The site was formerly occu 
 pied by a royal palace, in which Henry VIII. and 
 Queen Elizabeth were born ; but in the reign of Wil 
 liam and Mary it was given by the queen as a hospital, 
 after the naval battle of La Hogue, when no suitable 
 place for the wounded could be found. 
 
 The students visited the Painted Hall, the Chapel, 
 and the Dormitory ; in the first of which there is a 
 large collection of portraits of naval heroes, and pic 
 tures of naval victories. In this hall the body of 
 Nelson lay in state for three days.- In another part of 
 the building the coat and waistcoat worn by him at 
 Trafalgar, and the coat in .which he fought the battle 
 of the Nile, are exhibited in a glass case. The pen 
 sioners wear blue frock-coats with brass buttons, and 
 soft hats. They are entirely provided for by the insti 
 tution. The Greenwich Observatory, in which the 
 Nautical Almanacs are calculated, is also located here. 
 On one of its towers there is a " time ball," five feet 
 in diameter, stuffed with cork, which is let fall every 
 day at one o'clock, to enable ships to regulate their 
 chronometers. 
 
 The town of Woolwich, three miles distant, was 
 also visited. It contains a dockyard, which is claimed 
 as the oldest in England, and the. Royal Arsenal, 
 occupying one hundred acres of land, and containing 
 not less than twenty-four thousand pieces of ordnance, 
 and immense quantities of small arms. 
 
 " Paul, do you know what Greenwich is celebrated 
 for, besides the Hospital, Park, and Observatory?" 
 asked the doctor, when they returned to the landing- 
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 " I don't know ; but I see something in the guide 
 books about white ba*it, but I haven't the least idea 
 what white bait is." 
 
 " It is a celebrated dish, and no one visits Green 
 wich without dining on white bait. We will try it." 
 
 They entered one of the eating-houses near the 
 landing stage, and the doctor called for the popular 
 dish. Presently it appeared, and the host enjoyed the 
 astonishment of Paul. 
 
 " Why, it's nothing but little fishes ! " exclaimed 
 Captain Kendall, as the waiter placed about a quart of 
 them before the Americans. 
 
 " True, but they are a dish for a London alderman." 
 
 The little fish were white, and had been fried in 
 flour. They averaged about an inch in length, and 
 lay upon the dish with their eyes wide open, staring 
 at the diners. Thev are eaten whole, with the heads 
 on, entrails and fins all in the natural state. A little 
 lemon juice was dropped upon them, and Dr. Win- 
 stock declared they were elegant. Paul was not fas 
 cinated. The open eyes and the distended stomachs 
 were objectionable ; but, rather to please the surgeon 
 than himself, he tasted of them. Certainly the flavor 
 was very delicate, and with a little more practice he 
 would probably relish them. 
 
 After the experience at Cowes, the conspirators 
 were not allowed to remain on board without some 
 one competent to take charge of them, and Mr. Fluxion 
 was left to keep them from running awav. The pro 
 fessor was a shrewd man. It was hard work for boys 
 to get ahead of him. Without seeming to watch them, 
 he kept one eye on them all the time. It'was plain to 
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 chief. Their earnest conversation in the tops was not 
 without a purpose, but he could not hear anything, 
 and the secrets of the Red Cross were not opened to 
 him. But he noticed that Murdock was not with them. 
 
 The new hand was continually dreading an explo 
 sion. The plot seemed to be thickening around him 
 all the time. Wilton had just been committed to the 
 brig, and he heard that McLeish had been released. 
 It was hardly safe for him to remain in the ship 
 another day. The river was full of boats, which 
 frequently came alongside. After dark he might drop 
 down on the bobstay and hail one of them, and the 
 boatman for a consideration would set him ashore. 
 He determined to take his chance that very evening. 
 
 He must be ready to leave at any moment, and it 
 was necessary once more to procure his stolen treasure 
 in the hold. This was an easy matter, for the steerage 
 was empty, and he went below for this purpose. 
 About this time Mr. Fluxion missed him, and went 
 down through the cabin to ascertain what he was 
 doing. As he opened the door between the cabin 
 and the steerage, he saw the scuttle leading to the 
 forward store-rooms, in the hold, opened by some one 
 underneath. He stepped into one of the mess-rooms, 
 and waited for further developments. When Mur 
 dock came up with the money in his pocket, the< 
 professor seized him by the collar, and dragged him 
 into the cabin without the slightest ceremony. 
 
 Murdock protested against this treatment, but he 
 was searched on the spot. The eighty pounds was 
 found in his pocket, and he was tumbled into the brig 
 ,vith Wilton.
 
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 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 LONDON. FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. 
 
 WHEN the principal came on board, Mr. Fluxion 
 made his report, and delivered up the eighty 
 pounds he had taken from the thief. Murdock and 
 Wilton had made an effort to understand each other 
 (luring the few hours they had spent together in the 
 brig ; but the enmity ran so high between them that 
 neither of them obtained any satisfaction. 
 
 After supper, Captain Kendall, with McLeish, came 
 on board, and Wilton was conducted to the cabin to 
 be put " upon the harrow," as he expressed it. Ac 
 cording to his usual custom, he denied everything. 
 
 " I wouldn't say a word, sir, if he hadn't cheated 
 me," said McLeish, when called upon to tell his story, 
 "lie gave me the twenty pounds to keep for him, and 
 then wished me to exchange the bills for gold." 
 
 " I didn't give him the bills, Mr. Lowington. He is 
 putting it on me to get his own head out of the halter," 
 protested Wilton. 
 
 "You did not give him the bills?" said the prin 
 cipal. 
 
 "No, sir ; I did not; and he knows I didn't." 
 
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 the twenty pounds in bank bills?" asked Mr. Low- 
 ington. 
 
 " He did, sir. He said his father sent him a bill 
 for twenty pounds, and he drew the money of T. 
 Wiggin & Co." 
 
 " I never told him so ; he is making it all up, sir." 
 
 " Do you think he made up the name of T. Wiggin 
 & Co., well-known bankers?" asked Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " We all know that firm. My father told me, before 
 I left home, if I wanted any more money, he would 
 send it to me through T. Wiggin & Co., and I sup 
 pose I have mentioned the name twenty times." 
 
 " You have funds there now," added the principal. 
 
 " I didn't know it, sir." 
 
 " Probably there is a letter for you at the bankers'," 
 added the principal, who comprehended that the stu 
 dent's father must have sent a bill of exchange to him. 
 
 Mr. Lowington had his theorv. He was satisfied 
 that McLeish had told the truth, and that Wilton was 
 lying. Mr. Fluxion had handed him the bills taken 
 from Murdock. without specifying the amount, and he 
 concluded that the twenty pounds which Wilton had 
 passed to McLeish was part of the funds from the safe. 
 Therefore he sent for Murdock. 
 
 " It is plain enough now that you are the person 
 who robbed the safe," continued the principal, when 
 Murdock was brought before him. 
 
 It was plain enough to the culprit also, and he saw 
 that it would be worse than folly for him to deny it ; so 
 he said nothing. 
 
 " Did you give any of the money to Wilton ? " asked 
 the principal. 
 
 " No, sir ; none from the safe," replied the new hand.
 
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 " I gave you eighty pounds, Mr. Lowington," in 
 terposcd Mr. Fluxion. 
 
 " Then of course the twenty pounds was no part of 
 the money from the safe." 
 
 " I haven't used a penny of it," added Murdock ; " I 
 only took it for fun, and didn't mean to keep it." 
 
 " We don't appreciate that description of amuse 
 ment," said the principal, dryly. " If I keep you in 
 the brig a month for fun, you will see that there is as 
 much fun in the one as the other. You said you did 
 not give Wilton any money from the safe. Did you 
 give him any money at all? " 
 
 " Yes, sir ; I gave him twenty pounds which I had 
 when I joined the ship," replied Murdock. 
 
 Wilton opened his eyes and puckered his lips with 
 an expression of astonishment which would have 
 staggered persons less experienced than the principal 
 and the professor of mathematics. 
 
 " That's an awful lie, sir. I had some disagreement 
 with Murdock, and he is down upon me," said he. 
 
 " We had no disagreement except about this matter of 
 taking my money and not giving it back to me," added 
 the new hand, who then described the interview be 
 tween himself and Wilton, when he had given the 
 money to him. 
 
 " I suppose I may as well give it up, if Murdock and 
 McLeish both intend to lie me down," growled Wilton. 
 " I have tried to reform, and do my duty ; but it's no 
 use if the worst fellows are to be believed against me." 
 
 "Won't you please to read that letter, sir?" said 
 Murdock, handing the principal one he had received, 
 by the last mail, from his father. 
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 The new hand had actually written to his father for 
 the numbers of the Bank of England notes paid to him 
 for his last monthly allowance, as he told Wilton he 
 had done ; but he did not write till after he had told 
 him. He had taken this step in hope of scaring the 
 keeper of his funds into giving them up. 
 
 " These are the numbers of the notes your father 
 paid you in July are they?" asked Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " Yes, sir." 
 
 " Thirty-three thousand eight hundred and one to 
 four," added the principal, reading from the letter. 
 
 " Those are the numbers Pelham took in Bristol," 
 said Paul, taking from his pocket-book the paper the 
 second master had given him. 
 
 " Wilton, both the statements of Murdock and 
 McLeish are proved," said the principal, after some 
 reflection. " No better evidence could be asked." 
 
 " That letter of Murdock's was got up for the occa 
 sion," said Wilton, cast down, but not quite destroyed. 
 
 "No boy wrote this letter, which is post-marked 
 Manchester. Wilton, you are a hypocrite as well as a 
 knave," continued Mr. Lowington, sternly. " It is 
 proved that you robbed one of your shipmates." 
 
 " If he hadn't done it, I shouldn't have touched th 
 safe," added Murdock. 
 
 " I thought you did it for fun." 
 
 " So I did, sir. I went into the Josephine's cabin, 
 and then into the captain's state-room. I saw the safe 
 with the key in it, and I couldn't help opening it." 
 
 " You found the key in the safe ! " exclaimed Paul. 
 
 " I did." 
 
 " How came it in my coat pocket?"
 
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 " I put it there, and put the coat on the cabin table, 
 so as to make you think you left it there yourself. I 
 only did it for the fun of the thing." 
 
 " Do you think there would be any fun in being sent 
 back to Holyhead, where the crime was committed, 
 and being tried by the court and sent to prison for six 
 months or a year?" demanded the principal. 
 
 " I don't think there would," replied Murdock, 
 alarmed at such an array of terrors. 
 
 Both of the culprits were sent back to the brig. Mr. 
 Lowington wrote immediately to Murdock's father, 
 informing him of the crime his son had committed, 
 and that he was confined in the brig. The next day 
 was Sunday,' and the chaplain spent two hours in the 
 brig with the prisoners. Wilton professed to be 
 penitent, and acknowledged his error when it was no 
 longer possible for him to deny it ; but he persisted 
 that he had changed the bills for gold with the inten 
 tion of giving the money to the poor, as he had agreed 
 with Murdock. He wanted to get out so as to ex 
 ecute the grand purpose of the Red Cross Knights. 
 
 Although McLeish had no claim to sympathy on 
 account of his confinement in the brig, he obtained no 
 little credit among the students for refusing to divulge 
 the name of Wilton ; and when it was proved that he 
 was not guilty of the robbery, he rose highly in the 
 estimation of the officers. He was treated with much 
 consideration by the captain, who wished to encourage 
 him to do well. In spite of the drawbacks which had 
 disturbed him, he continued to persevere in his efforts 
 to do well. Of course he succeeded just in proportion 
 to his endeavors. The help he needed was never
 
 328 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 wanting. Grace Arbuckle visited the Josephine while 
 she lay at Greenwich, and her influence was more 
 powerful than that of all others combined. 
 
 During the succeeding week the ship's company 
 who were entitled to liberty on shore visited London 
 every afternoon, and saw the principal objects of in 
 terest, though a month is little time enough to be 
 come familiar with the city. A full description, even 
 of what the students saw, would require a volume, 
 and only a few extracts from a letter of Paul Kendall 
 to his mother can be given. It was finished the day 
 the Josephine sailed for Hull. 
 
 " MY DEAR MOTHER : We are in London at last, 
 and I have seen just enough of the metropolis of the 
 world to make me wish to see more ; and some time 
 I mean to spend a month in the city. On Monday 
 morning we went up to the city, for the first time, in a 
 little steamer. There are hundreds of them running 
 up and down the muddy Thames. They are very 
 smart boats, and they handle them with great skill. 
 Instead of having bells to direct the engineer, there is 
 a small boy on the main deck, who communicates the 
 orders from the captain on one of the paddle-boxes. 
 The steersman stands on a raised platform at the 
 stern. The captain moves his hands as signals for the 
 boy, who interprets them for the engineer, in the fun 
 niest language I ever heard. ' Ayse air,' he sings, 
 which means, ease her ; ' sto' pair ' (stop her) ; ' back 
 hair' (back her) ; ' star* tair' (start her). 
 
 " We landed at a floating stage, just above London 
 Bridge famous London Bridge ! It is wide enough 
 for four vehicles to go abreast, and it is always so
 
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 crowded that there are two continuous lines of them 
 going each way. In one line the horses trot, and in 
 the other they walk. Policemen stand in the roadway 
 to make the drivers move along and take the right 
 line, as they wish to walk or trot. We went up King 
 William Street, passed the Monument built to com 
 memorate the great fire, which is two hundred and 
 two feet high, and two hundred and two feet from the 
 place in Pudding Lane where the fire broke out. We 
 went into the Bank of England, which is a low-look 
 ing building, though it covers a large area ; into the 
 Exchange, the General Post-office in St. Martin's-le- 
 Grand, and then to St. Paul's Cathedral. This is a 
 big church, and very grand in its proportions, but it 
 is as black as charcoal. Dr. Winstock and I went all 
 over the building, even to the ball, three hundred and 
 sixty feet high, and into the crypt, where Nelson and 
 the Duke of Wellington are buried. The funeral car 
 of the Iron Duke is kept in this place, and is a very 
 showy and costly affair. The main floor and the 
 vaults are full of tablets and sculptures in honor of 
 great men. I bought the pamphlet guide to the Ca 
 thedral, which contains a full account of the building, 
 with pictures of the more important monuments. L 
 costs three and two-pence to go all over the building ; 
 and the idea of making a show of a church don't seem 
 to be just the thing. 
 
 " From St. Paul's we vent to the Tower of London, 
 which is very interesting indeed. We paid sixpence 
 for admission ; and as soon as a party of a dozen had 
 gathered, one of the heralds (who are old soldiers, 
 dressed in antique costume) conducted us through the 
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 330 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 various towers and apartments. The Tower is the 
 greatest thing I have yet seen ; it is full of ancient 
 armor, old cannon, and specimens of weapons. On 
 the walls and ceilings of some of the rooms the most 
 fantastic designs are wrought of guns, pistols, swords, 
 daggers, or parts of them. A couple of serpents are 
 made in this way, so that they look quite natural. We 
 saw the dungeons where kings, queens, princes, and 
 other persons had been confined, and the block on 
 which some of them had been executed. In a small, 
 dingy room, the crown jewels, worth three millions 
 of pounds, including the crown of the queen, of the 
 Prince of Wales, and a lot of sceptres. 
 
 " We finished the first day in London by visiting the 
 Thames Tunnel, which is a gigantic failure, without a ' 
 doubt, though it shows what man can do. It cost an 
 immense sum of money, but it can only be used for 
 foot passengers. You have to go down a lot of stairs 
 to get to it. There are two roadways, but one of them 
 was closed up. The other was lighted with gas, and 
 there were plenty of stands in the niches for the sale 
 of all sorts of trinkets and fancy goods. The toll is 
 two-pence. 
 
 " On Tuesday we went out to Windsor Castle, where 
 Queen Victoria resides most of the time. We first 
 went into St. George's Chapel, which contains the 
 stalls of the Knights of the Garter, who are installed 
 in this building, and the royal vaults, in which many 
 of the kings and queens, including Henry VIII., 
 Charles I., George III., George IV., William IV., 
 Jane Seymour, Queen Charlotte, and Queen Adelaide 
 are buried. We went through the state apartments, 
 which are magnificent, adorned with paintings and
 
 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 331 
 
 sculpture. As the queen had gone to Germany to. 
 visit her country cousins, we obtained a special order 
 froin the lord chamberlain to see the private apart 
 ments of her majesty, where she eats, drinks, and 
 sleeps, and has the headache, as common people do. 
 Everything was as splendid as it could be ; but, mother, 
 I don't see the use of it all. Of couVse the poor peo 
 ple have to pay the fiddler when the queen dances. 
 She is a very good woman, but it seems to me it costs 
 too much money to support her. 
 
 " On Wednesday we went to the British Museum, 
 which is such an immense establishment we could only 
 walk through without stopping to look long at anything. 
 
 " On Thursday we took a stroll through Hyde Park, 
 Green Park, and St. James's Park, with outside views 
 of Buckingham and St. James's Palaces. We also 
 went to Kensington Museum, which contains a vast 
 collection of articles connected with the useful and the 
 ornamental. There were paintings by Landseer, Rosa 
 Bonheur, and others. There were some splendid 
 models of men-of-war, steamers, and boats. In one 
 of the patent rooms I saw the first locomotive ever 
 built, the Rocket, constructed by Stevenson. 
 
 " On Friday we went out to Sydenham, to which 
 the Crystal Palace, used for the World's Fair in Lon 
 don, was removed. At each end of it there is a tower 
 two hundred and eighty-two feet high. I don't like 
 to overdo anything, mother, but I haven't the least 
 hesitation in saying, in my sober senses, that a visit to 
 the Crystal Palace at Sydenham is worth the trouble 
 of crossing the Atlantic, even if the person is very 
 seasick. We walked for hours through its floors and 
 galleries, without examining a tenth part of what it
 
 332 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 contains. We passed through courts got up in imita 
 tion of Grecian, Roman, Assyrian, Pompeian, and 
 Egyptian houses, which were adorned with statues and 
 other sculptures. There are copies here of many of 
 the most celebrated works of art. In one part there 
 are tropical gardens, with plants and even tall trees 
 growing ; in another, models of ships, bridges, ma 
 chinery, and specimens of the animal, vegetable, and 
 mineral productions of all countries. The gardens in 
 front of the palace are magnificent, with statues, grot 
 tos, fountains, and flower-gardens in great profusion. 
 
 " On Saturday we w t ent to the Palace of Westmin 
 ster, which is the Parliament House. It is open to 
 visitors only on Saturdays, and even then one cannot 
 get into the House of Lords without a ticket from the 
 grand chamberlain. I suppose you will think we 
 had to call upon some duke or lord, and humbly beg 
 permission to see the palace ; but we didn't, for there 
 was a score of loafers around the building who had 
 handfuls of these tickets, which they sell for sixpence 
 apiece, though on them is printed, " It is particularly 
 requested that no payment be made to any person on 
 account of this ticket." We entered at the Victoria 
 Tower, where her majesty goes in, passed through the 
 House of Lords, which is a splendid room ; but it is 
 only ninety feet long and forty-five feet wide. The 
 House of Commons is smaller than this, and a much 
 plainer apartment. We left by St. Stephen's Hall, 
 which is adorned with statues of eminent British 
 statesmen Hampden, Pitt, Burke, Fox, and others. 
 
 "We walked through Westminster Abbey, entering 
 at the Poets' Corner, where there are busts, tablets, 
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 YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AXD WALES. 333 
 
 of England. The nave, transepts, choir, and several 
 chapels are filled with monuments to great men, 
 kings, queens, princes, and nobles. The Abbey is 
 very old, and contains the tombs of kings who reigned 
 nearly a thousand years ago. I almost held my breath 
 when I stood by these monuments crumbling with age. 
 The sovereigns of England are crowned here, and I 
 sat down in the chair which twenty-two of them had 
 occupied when the crown was placed upon their heads 
 but I speak to common people as usual ! 
 
 u That evening I went with Dr. Winstock to see 
 Madame Tussaud's collection of wax figures of dis 
 tinguished characters. I never thought much of ' wax 
 figgers ' before ; but, as the school girls say, this was 
 perfectlv splendid, and as natural as life itself. I sat 
 down by the side of an old gentleman, as I thought. 
 He kept very still, and did not pick my pocket, so that 
 I did not discover till I got up that he was a ' figgcr.' 
 I was just going to beg pardon of an old lady for 
 brushing against her, when I saw a label informing 
 me that it was a very correct likeness of Madame 
 Tussaud herself. Some extraordinary curiosities are 
 exhibited here, and are vouched for by letters in the 
 catalogue as genuine, such as Napoleon's Waterloo 
 carriage ; the camp bedstead used by the emperor at 
 St. Helena ; the cradle of his son, the King of Rome ; 
 the carriage in which Napoleon made the campaign 
 of Russia ; the one he used at St. Helena ; various 
 swords, a watch, tooth-brush, handkerchief, and other 
 things used by him ; the coronation robes of George 
 IV. ; the original knife from the guillotine by which 
 twenty-two thousand persons were executed in the 
 French Revolution, including Marie Antoinette, the
 
 334 RED CROSS, OR 
 
 Duke of Orleans, and Robespierre, ' bought by the 
 Alessrs. Tussaud of the grandson of the original execu 
 tioner.' The Chamber of Horrors contains figures of all 
 the principal criminals. If you ever visit London, moth 
 er, do not neglect to see Madame Tussaud's exhibition. 
 
 '* On Sunday I went with Professor Stoute to Surrey 
 Chapel to hear Mr. Spurgeon preach. His church 
 holds about six thousand people, and is always full. 
 The congregation do the singing, and the effect of so 
 many voices was grand. Mr. Spurgeon is a stout 
 man, plain spoken, and his discourse was so simple 
 that a small child could understand him. I liked him 
 very much indeed. 
 
 " On Monday and Tuesday we did up a lot of odd 
 places, like Lincoln's Inn, Smithfield, the Mint, and 
 Cremorne Gardens. I have been up and down the 
 Thames as far as Chelsea half a dozen times. Mr. 
 Lowington thinks we may come to London again. 
 I hope so, for I want to see more of it. 
 
 " Give my love to everybody, and believe me ever 
 " Your affectionate son, 
 
 "PAUL KENDALL." 
 
 After Murdock had been in the brig three clays, his 
 father, in a flurry of excitement, appeared on board of 
 the ship. He insisted on seeing Spenser at once, and' 
 was conducted to the steerage by the principal. 
 
 ' ; Poor boy ! " exclaimed he, when he saw the new 
 hand through the pales. u This is an outrage upon the 
 boy," he added, turning wrathfully to Mr. Lowington. 
 
 " Perhaps you do not regard it as an outrage for a 
 student to steal ; but we think it a greater outrage than 
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 " But, my clear sir, you must know that it was 
 merely a boyish freak. Boys will be wild, and I dare 
 say he did it for the fun and excitement of the thing," 
 Baid Mr. Murdock, impatiently. 
 
 " When students, we punish them severely." 
 
 " How long has the poor boy been in this cage?" 
 
 " Since Saturday night." 
 
 " Mercy on us ! Three whole days ! " ejaculated the 
 indulgent father. " Pray, let him out immediately." 
 
 Peaks appeared, and the prisoner was released. 
 
 Mr. Murdock protested against such " barbarity " 
 for a " petty offence," and the conference was ended 
 by the discharge, at his father's request, of the student. 
 They went off' together, after Spenser's twenty pounds 
 had been given to him, the weak parent condoling with 
 his son for the "bad treatment" inflicted upon him. 
 That boy's future is easily predicted, for one with his 
 tendencies could not stand such stupid indulgence. 
 
 After a passage of thirty hours the squadron an 
 chored at Hull, from which the students made an 
 excursion to York, and explored its old cathedral. 
 The ship and her consort sailed for Antwerp. 
 
 On board of the Josephine everything worked well; 
 the discipline was perfect, and even McLeish perse 
 vered in carrying out his good intentions. Paul's last 
 letter, written at Hull, to Grace Arbuckle, was very 
 warm in its commendation of her penitent. He ap 
 peared to be reformed ; and the only thing which vexed 
 the young commander was the fact that McLeish wrote 
 an occasional letter to the young lady, though it is dif 
 ficult to see why he should be vexed at such a trifle. 
 
 Wilton was now the only occupant of the brig. 
 When the Young America sailed from Hull, he called
 
 336 RED CROSS. 
 
 an officer and requested to see the principal. The pris. 
 oner promised so fairly, and the tender-hearted chaplain 
 pleaded so warmly for him, that he was set at liberty. 
 Mr. Lowington knew that he was a hypocrite, and 
 had but little hope of his reformation. He directed all 
 the professors and officers to watch him closely, what 
 ever pretensions he made to goodness and fidelity. 
 
 The Knights of the Red Cross were not defunct, 
 and their stupendous secret had not yet leaked out. 
 On the very night of Wilton's release, he discussed 
 the whole matter of the intended capture of the Jose 
 phine with Perth, while they were together in the 
 main top. They rearranged their plans, for the 
 embryo captain of the consort had invented a new 
 scheme by which the grand purpose was to be ef 
 fected ; and we may add that their talk was not 
 wholly in vain, for the Josephine was actually takjen 
 afterwards, and the conspirators went to sea in her. 
 
 The next day at noon, the low shores of Belgium 
 were seen from the decks of the squadron, and the 
 students were filled with lively anticipations in regard 
 to the new country before them. England did not 
 seem like a foreign land to them, it was so much 
 like their own country. On the continent they ex 
 pected to find strange sights and sounds, for there 
 everything was different ; their mother tongue was 
 not the language of the people, and their manners and 
 customs were not those of England or the United States. 
 They were not disappointed in their expectations ; 
 but what they saw and did, what incidents occurred, 
 and what adventures they had, shall be told in DIKES 
 AND DITCHES, OR YOUNG AMERICA ix HOLLAND 
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