they drank the more. They lay here howling and groaning, drunk and

dying, all in one. They didn't know where they were, they didn't care.

They didn't even take the sun, it seems.'

'Not take the sun?' cried the captain, looking up. 'Sacred Billy! what a

crowd!'

'Well, it don't matter to Joe!' said Huish. 'Wot are Wiseman and the

t'other buffer to us?'

A good deal, too,' says the captain. 'We're their heirs, I guess.'

It is a great inheritance,' said Herrick.

Well, I don't know about that,' returned Davis. 'Appears to me as if it

might be worse. 'Tain't worth what the cargo would have been of course,

at least not money down. But I'll tell you what it appears to figure up

to. Appears to me as if it amounted to about the bottom dollar of the

man in 'Frisco.'

''Old on,' said Huish. 'Give a fellow time; 'ow's this, umpire?'

'Well, my sons,' pursued the captain, who seemed to have recovered his

assurance, 'Wiseman and Wishart were to be paid for casting away this

old schooner and its cargo. We're going to cast away the schooner right

enough; and I'll make it my private business to see that we get paid.

What were W. and W. to get? That's more'n I can tell. But W. and W. went

The Ebb-Tide