"As I said this, she was nearly distracted; and declared that she would never accept another shilling from me. She promised to do for me all that I had done for her: to work for me, and let me live in idleness. I had at last succeeded in winning her love. "Perhaps I was wrong in having done so; but the manner in which I had been myself wronged, rendered me incapable of acting honest. I could not help taking this way to larn her a little manners. There was another I intended larning a lesson to, before I left London; but I determined to teach him in a very different way. It was the swell that had ruined Ann. "I looked out for him; and found him in the street, on the way to his place of business. I laid one o' my flippers on his shoulder, to keep him from escaping, while I gave him his lesson with the other. I flattened his nose, nearly tore off one of his ears; and did him some other damage besides. The police pulled me off o' him; and I was taken away to the station, and next day brought before a magistrate. "I only got two months for giving the conceited snob his lesson, which I didn't much regret, for I was just as well off in the gaol as anywhere else. My time or my liberty was worth nothing more to me. When again set free, I made another voyage to India, and got back in fourteen months. "When I returned, Ann was dead. She had died in the same work-house, in which she was born. "Since then, there has been no particular reason why I should behave myself; and I have been, as you see me, old Stormy Jack. I never again thought of getting married. I could only love but one; and that one it was not my fate to be spliced to. I suppose it was never intended I should get married. At all events, I don't mean to try. I made one girl miserable by not marrying her; and I might make another miserable if I did." With this hypothetical reflection, Stormy concluded his sad story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END OF VOLUME ONE. Volume Two, Chapter I. A STRANGE SUMMONS FROM STORMY. As already stated, I had left the northern diggings with the design of going to the Tuolumne river; and that on my way to the latter place I had met Guinane--who had induced me to relinquish my design, and stop awhile on the Stanislaus. Now that Guinane was gone, and the claim in which we had been partners worked out, there was nothing to hinder me from carrying out my original intention; and I resolved, to leave the Stanislaus' diggings, and proceed onward to the Tuolumne. Stormy Jack, who stayed behind, promised to join me, as soon as he should have worked out his claim on the Stanislaus--which he expected to do in about three weeks. On reaching the Tuolumne, I proceeded to Jacksonville--a little mining village, where, after looking about a couple of days, I purchased two shares in a claim that lay upon the bank of the river.