It is most wonderful to see the changes he has worked in these parts, among the tinners, fishermen, and other wild people. He has greatly lessened by his influence, the horrible practise of wrecking, that is, decoying vessels on shore by means of false lights that they may be wrecked and plundered. There are wrecks enough as it is on this dangerous shore. I hope we shall hear of none to-morrow, but it promises a wild night, and there are two or three ships in the offing. * * * * * Word has been brought to me that several bodies have come ashore, and that the fishermen have saved alive two persons who were floating on a spar. One, they tell me, says he is from Newcastle, and has been a prisoner among the Moors for many years. I must go down and see if I can do anything for them. I am so silly, that such a story sets my heart to beating as though Harry had not been dead this many a year. If it should be he! Well, if it were, I am growing an old woman, and very likely he would not know me, or he may be married. How silly I am. As if there were one chance in ten thousand. * * * * * But it was Harry, and we knew each other before a word was spoken. He was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean as we heard, but was saved by a Moorish vessel after he had floated on some pieces of the vessel for two or three days, and was a slave to the Moors for many a long year. Being thus forced to serve on board a pirate vessel, he had the luck to be taken by an English Indiaman, and carried to Bombay, from whence he had come home at last. He said he might have returned before, but hearing from some Newcastle man that I was married, he lost all heart or wish to see his native place again. So he staid in India, where he got good employment under the company and made a fair fortune. At last, he conceived a desire to see England again. Coming to London, he met Wilson, who is comfortably established there in a hair-dressing business, and having formerly had some slight acquaintance with her, he made himself known to her, and heard the truth about me. He was coming to seek me out, when his ship, which was bound for Bristol, was wrecked and threw him as it were at my very door. Harry is very earnest with me to marry him at once, saying that we have been separated long enough, and if we have not many years to live there is so much the more reason why we should spend them together. I have told him that I must consult my Lord and Amabel, and he makes no objection, because, as he says, he knows well enough what they will say.