"I like your spirit.

Have you money enough to pay for your hotel expenses while you are waiting for a ship ?" "Yes, thank you, sir.

The French captain said I had fairly earned wages, and gave me ten napoleons when he started." "He must have been a good sort of fellow," the captain said; "though I wish we had caught him for all that.

Well, good-by, and a pleasant voyage home." Ralph put up at a quiet boarding-house, kept by a Mulatto woman.

He and Jacques got a fresh rig-out of clothes at once, and went down to the port to inquire about ships.