have, indeed, had a most wonderful adventure." Then with another
deep breath: "Well, by the blood! I may tell you plainly that I
am no poor hand at the reading of faces. Well, I think you to be
honest, and I am inclined to believe every word you tell me. By
the blood! I am prodigiously sorry for you, and am inclined to
help you out of your scrape.

"The first thing to do," he continued, "is to get rid of these
two dead men, and that is an affair I believe we shall have no
trouble in handling. One of them we will wrap up in the carpet
here, and t'other we can roll into yonder bed-curtain. You shall
carry the one and I the other, and, the harbor being at no great
distance, we can easily bring them thither and tumble them
overboard, and no one will be the wiser of what has happened. For
your own safety, as you may easily see, you can hardly go away
and leave these objects here to be found by the first-comer, and
to arise up in evidence against you."

This reasoning, in our hero's present bewildered state, appeared
to him to be so extremely just that he raised not the least
objection to it. Accordingly, each of the two silent, voiceless
victims of the evening's occurrences were wrapped into a bundle
that from without appeared to be neither portentous nor terrible
in appearance.

Thereupon, Jonathan shouldering the rug containing the little
gentleman in black, and the sea-captain doing the like for the
other, they presently made their way down the stairs through the
darkness, and so out into the street. Here the sea-captain became
the conductor of the expedition, and leading the way down several