With the three malefics who came in the boat, poor Wattles, ever a child of misfortune, and the accursed of the heavenly spheres, went forth to meet the vengeance of the law, and the scarred tom cat Scorpio was alone with the visions in the crystal. [Illustration: THE END] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 232, changed “Sic Semper Tyranus” to “Sic Semper Tyrannis”. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's Tales of a Vanishing River, by Earl Howell Reed