With the coming of evening a calm and tranquil joy had settled upon the household of the castle; for there was not a servant on the broad estate who did not heartily rejoice in the knowledge that the brave and handsome youth, whom they had so long esteemed and loved for himself alone, was indeed and in truth their young lord and master. “Ah,” said the old earl, later in the evening, as he took the hand of his beautiful ward and gave it into the loving grasp of his grandson, “If your parents are permitted to look down from the celestial abode, and can behold the things we do here on earth, I believe, in my deepest heart, they will bless me for that which now I do!” THE END. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s note Silently corrected typographical errors and inconsistencies; retained non-standard spelling. Italic text in the original is delimited by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's The Smuggler of King's Cove, by Sylvanus Cobb