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side, he lifted up his head and spoke pleadingly to Henry.

“There are books on the shelves that you have never read.”

“I shall come back, one day, and read them.”

“There are things in my mind I have never told you, boy.”

“When I have the admiration of men, I shall come to you and you shall tell them to me.”

“You swear it?”

“Well———yes, I swear.”

“And how long will it take you to do these things, Henry?”

“I cannot tell; one year———or ten———or twenty. I must make a very admirable name.” Henry was climbing over the ship's side.

“I shall be lonely in the evenings, son.”

“And I, too, sir. Look! we cast off! Good-by, sir, You will remember Paulette?”

“Paulette ———Paulette>—Ah, yes; I remember.”

Henry Morgan came to the English town of Port Royal and left his baggage on the beach while he went looking for his uncle.

“Do you know where I may find the Lieutenant-Governor?” he asked in the streets.

“His palace is yonder, young man, and who knows he may be in it.”

His palace———it was like a British gentleman become an official far from home. It was like the