CHAPTER XXII.
[Zuares and the Shark]

CHAPTER XXIII.
[Hawkshaw's Old Friends]

CHAPTER XXIV.
[Up Anchor]

CHAPTER XXV.
[The Suspicious Sail]

CHAPTER XXVI.
[The Strange Island]

CHAPTER XXVII.
[The Hermit]

MORLEY ASHTON.

CHAPTER I.
THE BLIND GODDESS.

It was the evening of one of the last days of spring, when that delightful season is blending with the approaching summer, and when the sun was setting on one of those green and fertile landscapes which we find nowhere but in England, that a young man paused upon the crest of the eminence which overlooks, from the southward, the beautiful little vale and sequestered village of Acton-Rennel, and, with a kindling eye and flushing cheek, surveyed the scene and all its features, on which he had not gazed for what now seemed a long and weary lapse of time.