"Whatever your heart desires, dearest one, it shall ever be the object of my life to obtain it for you. Your wish shall ever be my law, my bride!" "Juan, my husband!" she murmured, and our lips met in that first rapturous kiss of man and wife. Two days later, having in the meantime stood off toward the Spanish port of Mobile, the _Belligerent_ fell in with a Philadelphia brig, bound for New Orleans. The master of the Quaker vessel readily bargained to take us as passengers, and we were accordingly put aboard the _Mary Penn_ by Captain Powers, after we had taken a most affectionate farewell of Father Rocus. He was going on to Mobile to care for the rescued Spaniards, of whom, all being persons of no political or military consequence, the British were eager to rid themselves. Except between ourselves and the padre, the parting afforded a welcome relief to all. There had not alone been the matter of personal shame. In these years of national humiliation, it would be difficult for any true American to act the part of a gracious guest aboard a British man-of-war. But once aboard the _Mary Penn_, there was nothing to mar the perfect joy of our love. After a short and smooth voyage, the brig put into one of the many mouths of the Mississippi, and, ascending in charge of a pilot, landed us at New Orleans, the happiest couple in all the wide world. THE END BY MR. BENNET INTO THE PRIMITIVE A daring story of shipwreck and "the survival of the fittest." FOR THE WHITE CHRIST A Story of the Days of Charlemagne. End of Project Gutenberg's A Volunteer with Pike, by Robert Ames Bennet