DURING this second summer that she passed upon the moors, early in a May morning, when she was out on the watera, there was a vessel standing off the shore ; a rare sìght there, for, though many sailing ships and steamera passed in the offing, no one of them ever carne dose in, unless it were a taitani coasting, mach lesa did any cast anclior anywhere nearer than Civita Vecchia one way, or Livorno the other.

This vessel, however, a comely barque of Sicilian rig, a brig of some 100 tons, had