The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

WTkI PILOT. 56":ourage could }have been exercised in a regutlar
antd well-supported Navy, tand had the habits of hi.
youtth better qualified hliln to have borne, imeekly,
tle hlonours tie acqtired in hits age, hle would hlave
left b)elhind him no namte in its lists that would
have descended t to the latest posterity of his iedoptad countrymen l w vith greater relnown "
"tWhy, Griffith," exclaimed Cecilia, in a little
surprise,' you are zealons in his causet Who
was he I"
"A man who held a piromilse of secrecy while
living, which is not at all released by his death,
It is enough to know, that lhe was greatly in1strumental in procuring our sudden union, and that
our happintess migaht have been wrecked in the
voyage of life had we not met the unknown pilot
of the Germ3an Ocean."
Perceiving her tthusband to rise, and carefully
collect the fpapest in a btunlll, before lie left the
room, (Cccitia made no furltther remark at the trmte,
nor was the tsubjcct ever revived between thtelt
T1E END.~9