CHAPTER X.
PERPLEXITIES .-- ANOTHER DEATH.
Neath the billows of the ocean, Hidden treasures wait the hand, That again to light shall raise them With the diver's magic wand.
G.W.

COOK.
THE family, gathered by James' decease, returned to their homes.

Susan and Charles returned to Baltimore.

Letters were received from the absent, expressing their sympathy and grief.

The father bowed like a "bruised reed," under the loss of his beloved son.