When he was buried, his country, recognizing his merit and remembering his services again, sent its best to honor him in death. Admiral Farragut, with a brilliant staff, was there. He was of the navy of the present, Revere represented the navy of the future, and both stood together at the grave of the navy of the past. They buried him on the high hill overlooking Ship House Point. Down on the Point, at the admiral's feet as it were, and just where the ship had stood, Revere erected a huge block of rough granite which bore this inscription: JOHN BARRY, Chief Boatswain's Mate of the United States Ship-of-the-Line _Susquehanna_, Who perished in the fall of that ship, September 20th, 1865. "_Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends._" In the lofty character of his motives, in the atonement of his self-sacrifice, in the greatness of his end, his purpose of destruction was forgotten. When his naval duties permitted, Emily and Richard often came back to the old white house on the hill in the summer, and to Charles Stewart Revere, John Barry Revere, little Emily Revere, and Richard Revere, Junior, it was the most fascinating spot on earth. They stand with their father by the huge Celtic cross which marks the admiral's resting-place, and hear again the story of the sword of the _Constitution_, destined one day to be drawn against the country in which it had been made. Or--and this they like even better--they sit with their mother (lovelier in Richard's eyes with every passing year) beneath the shadow of the mighty rock on the Point, while she tells them stories of old John Barry, and how at the last he held up the ship. _Part II_ VERACIOUS TALES OF VARIOUS SORTS "When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, Must have some solemn proof to pass her down." CHURCHILL "'Tis strange--but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." BYRON "Variety's the very spice of life." COWPER Copyright, 1900 and 1902, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1901 and 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1902, by Henry T. Coates & Company. Copyright, 1902, by The Golden Rule Company. Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Company. Copyright, 1902, by Cyrus Townsend Brady. COUPS DE THÉÂTRE "The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill." THOMAS HEYWOOD A VAUDEVILLE TURN COMEDY "My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on, Judge not the play before the play is done: The plot has many changes: every day Speaks a new scene: the last act crowns the play." FRANCIS QUARLES