sanctioned the changing of his medicine, almost drives me mad.--I am
satisfied, though, that we will have to hide this boy for a time in
some institution, and then announce to the authorities that at the
shipwreck, which we contemplate having, he perished."

"Captain, you are always for half-way measures. But as you like, so
long as you hold fast to our agreement--the half of the property."

"On the day on which I come into possession of the property, the half
is yours."

"Very well. You have sworn to this, and now be assured that just so
surely as you betray me, or attempt to cheat me out of the wages of my
sins, you are a dead man, even if at that very hour I go to eternal
damnation with you."

"You may depend upon me. Half and half, just as I have sworn. And now
I'll go for my nephew."

With these words the Captain stepped into the cabin. Through this
cabin ran a partition, and in one corner of the smaller part Willy had
hung his hammock. So soundly had he slept, that his first knowledge
that the "St. George" was under sail came when he noticed the motion of
the ship, and heard the swishing of the water.

"O dear! We've left Hongkong, and Father Somazzo couldn't get me away
from my uncle," was his first thought. "And last night I dreamed that
he did get me away, and that Brother Onufrio and Peppo were with me,
but I can't remember where.--O dear, we are out at sea and on the way
to Australia, or God knows where."