Mr.Crowe, fully crediting the power confided to him, did as he was bidden.

He was very harsh to the poor Captain; but in such a condition a man can hardly expect that people should not be harsh to him.

The Captain endeavoured to hold up his head, and to swagger, and to assume an air of pinchbeck respectability.

But the attorney would not permit it.

He required that the man should own himself to be penniless, a scoundrel, only anxious to be bought; and the Captain at last admitted the facts.