Not getting much, the man at last opened the cup-board door, where Carter had just time to conceal himself behind a great-coat.

The great-coat took the plunderer's fancy; he took it down off the peg, and there stood Carter before him! Billy--for it was he--stood absolutely confounded, as though a ghost had suddenly appeared; and Carter, after enjoying his unconcealed terror, collared him, and hauled him off to the police station.

He was tried soon after, and finally confessed that it was he who had taken the cricket-money too; for which offences he was sentenced to transportation.

So Eric, dear Eric, at last your name was cleared." "As I always knew it would be, dear old boy," said Wildney.
Montagu and Wildney found plenty to make them happy at Fairholm, and were never tired of Eric's society, and of his stories about all that befell him on board the "Stormy Petrel." They perceived a marvellous change in him.

Every trace of recklessness and arrogance had passed away; every stain of passion had been removed; every particle of hardness had been calcined in the flame of trial.