.

WOMAN'S WEAPONS.
The two discoverers of this awkward secret held a council of war.
Vickers was for at once calling the guard, and announcing to the prisoners that the plot--whatever it might be--had been discovered; but Pine, accustomed to convict ships, overruled this decision.
"You don't know these fellows as well as I do," said he.

"In the first place there may be no mutiny at all.

The whole thing is, perhaps, some absurdity of that fellow Dawes--and should we once put the notion of attacking us into the prisoners' heads, there is no telling what they might do." "But the man seemed certain," said the other.

"He mentioned my wife's maid, too!" "Suppose he did ?--and, begad, I dare say he's right--I never liked the look of the girl.