A BAG OF GOLD.
The Pitsea Manor Farm was a dull place enough now, even though the
beautiful sunshine made Nature look at her best on this September
afternoon; but Mr. Fenn and his wife seemed to have no longer any heart
left for joy, and they had settled that there was to be no harvest-home
on the farm, for ever since the disappearance of their son the worthy
couple could do nothing but mourn. They had indeed gone through
terrible sorrow, and their only comfort had been the long talks Mr.
Aylett had had with them, and his firm belief that Harry had not run
away, as the lad said he had once thought of doing, but that he had in
truth been kidnapped.
Mr. Aylett, being the brother of a rich squire, had powerful friends,
and he had done all in his power to find out news of Harry; but in those
days news travelled but slowly; and though much was guessed, the truth
had never been exactly ascertained.
At this moment Mr. Aylett was seen by the worthy Fenns to be walking
towards the farm, and very soon he was sitting by the sad-looking yeoman
in the great farm-hall, beginning as usual to talk of Harry.
'I've told the men I'll have naught to do with a harvest-home,' said Mr.
Fenn, decidedly. 'I'll give them money for the feast, and they may go
and dance their round reels on the green; but, now my poor boy is dead,
I care not for sounds of music, and joy does but make me dizzy.'
'And yet the Bible tells us to "rejoice always," good neighbour,' said
Mr. Aylett. 'Is it right to deprive others of joy when God has taken
ours from us? Is not this somewhat selfish grief, and displeasing to
God?'
'It is my whim, Mr. Aylett. I cannot feel like Job, for when I see the
lads a-merrymaking I think of my poor Harry's goodly countenance, and my
heart seems like to break.'
'The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away,' said Mrs. Fenn gently--'so
I tell Mr. Fenn; but such an ado I have to be a-comforting him that
sometimes I forget my own sore grief. It's a wonder I ever lived
through that time; and now when I sit in a quiet coigne I fancy I'm
another woman and in truth not Harry's mother. At this harvest-time I
think of the new doublet I had always ready for him, and how handsome he
looked. Lack-a-day!'
'Tut, tut, woman!' said her husband, who liked to think his grief was
the greatest, 'the lad was more to me than to thee. You know how he
would follow me about when he could but just toddle. Ay, ay, Mr.
Aylett, you too know what he was like. It was a sight to see him riding
about the farm; and now there's no one of my name as will inherit this
place. And as for my cousin who has an eye to the place, i' faith he's
but a poor creature--ay, a paltry ass.'
'The Lord can bring back your boy,' said the clergyman, with a quiet
assurance that appeared to be galling to the yeoman.
'I said naught to the contrary, Mr. Aylett; but there's a sight of
things that the Lord could do as never happen in this world; and my
boy's dead--I know it; and meseems, in truth, it's folly thinking on it
longer.'
''Tis much lacking in faith, good Mr. Fenn, that you are. For my part,
I believe Harry will come home, and----' But here the keener-witted
mother started up and called out:
'Mr. Aylett's heard news of Harry! Speak out, sir, or this old heart
will break; for my head feels dizzy. Speak out, sir, for God's sake!'
And Mr. Aylett now saw that he had sufficiently prepared the old people
for the joy that he had to tell them, and, standing up reverently, he
said:
'Ay, ay, good friends, God's name be praised! Harry is safe and sound,
and has a long and wonderful story to tell you.'
'But where is he--oh, my boy! my boy! You're not deceiving me, Mr.
Aylett, else God have mercy on you!'
'God forbid! Harry is in my house--brought here by a Captain Carew
himself; and with him is come an English maid who was a fellow-prisoner
in the West Indies. But I must tell no tales, and I bade him follow me
anon--and, ay, look you, there he is, so I'll leave you to hear his own
story, and go back to the maid, to whom my wife has taken a huge fancy
already, for there is as much sunlight in her eyes as there is gold in
our autumn corn; and, indeed, hers is as strange a history as you could
find even in tales of our Chaucer.'
We must leave Harry to tell his own wonderful adventures, but Etta had
already recounted to Mr. and Mrs. Aylett how Captain Carew had been
kindness itself to the prisoners of Santa Teresa when he landed at St.
Catherine, and how he had taken all the party on board, and, after
landing the new Governor at Jamaica, had gone to the island where Carlo
and Harry Fenn had been left, helped to find it by the rude chart which
Andreas had drawn. It can be easily understood how happy was the
meeting, and how Dona Elena landed to see her brother's grave, and heard
how he had died in Carlo's arms. Then, last, Captain Carew had taken
them all on board again, and had landed the Spaniards in Spain, and Etta
had been comforted at the loss of Felipa by Carlo's saying that she must
come some day as an honoured guest to his home; that when he was a man
he would travel to England, as he meant to be a Spanish Ambassador at
the Court of King Charles. Then how excited she had been when she first
beheld the shores of England, and knew that she was indeed no longer a
prisoner, but a free English girl. Captain Carew, having relations of
his own near South Benfleet, had himself taken the young people to Mr.
Aylett, as Harry, now thoughtful beyond his years, knew that his sudden
reappearance at home might cause too great a shock to his parents;
besides, he thought Mr. Aylett could best judge what was to be done
about finding Etta Allison's relations.
You can all imagine the joy of the homecoming; but I must add that there
was a grand harvest-home that year at Pitsea Manor Farm, and such joy as
never had been. What made it seem so wonderful to Harry was that Etta
was there, dressed in a pretty gown of white _seme_; and that he led off
the country dance with her; and that her sweet, brave face made the
whole hall appear merry; for, as Mrs. Fenn said, 'all could see Etta was
dancing a very Barley Bree o' mirth.'
Her uncle had been found, and had come over to see her; but, being an
old bachelor, he was glad enough to pay a yearly sum to Mrs. Aylett, and
to let her stay with that excellent lady; saying he should leave her all
his money, and stipulating that she was to pay him yearly visits. No
wonder Etta was happy as she danced with Harry, or told stories of the
past.
----
Will you like to hear something more, and can you guess that when Harry
Fenn married, his bride was Etta Allison? And Carlo del Campo was, in
truth, present, as he had really joined the Embassy--though he was not
yet Ambassador--but he said at the wedding that he owed his success to
Etta, who had taught him English. Poor Felipa died just before Carlo's
journey. She had never recovered the effects of all the hardships and
sorrows she had gone through; but before her death she sent some of her
jewels to her dear Etta, and begged her not to forget her; which, as
Etta's heart was big, she was not likely to do. You can imagine what
talks they all had together; and perhaps the most wonderful piece of
news that Harry told Don Carlo was that Captain Henry Morgan had now
turned over a new leaf, and that the King had knighted him, and made him
Governor of Jamaica; and that, wonderful to relate, he was now called
Sir Henry Morgan, a brave and loyal gentleman. Truly it was a case of
'set a thief to catch a thief,' for the pirates were now no longer
tolerated in Jamaica; and Sir Henry was said to be vastly clever at
hunting them down.
Some years later, when there were happy children running about the old
Pitsea farmhouse, there came a mysterious visitor to Benfleet. He gave
no name, but wished to see Harry Fenn, who was now the owner of the
farm; and when he was gone, Harry called his pretty wife Etta, who was
all curiosity to know what the visitor wanted; and then he showed her a
large bag, full of gold pieces--such a sum and such a glittering mass as
Etta and Harry had never seen all at once before in their lives; and on
a piece of parchment was written:
'For my godson Harry Fenn: a marriage portion for him and the little
witch, albeit they were so ungrateful and unmindful of their
well-wisher, Sir Henry Morgan.'
The gold pieces were of every nationality, and from every recognised
mint; and some of them looked as if they had been kept many years in
secret hiding-places known only to Sir Henry Morgan.
'This money,' said Harry, 'is, if I mistake not, gold that was stolen in
Sir Henry Morgan's raids. What think you, sweetheart? I like not the
colour of it; and these adventures brought me but one gold coin of true
ring in it, and that was my own wee wife.'
'For shame, Harry,' laughed Etta, 'to liken me to gold, which the Bible
calls the root of all evil! But why not give it to Mr. Aylett for the
poor on Canvey Island? Thou knowest, dear Harry, that there are many in
need there, round about the little Church of St. Catherine; and if it
goes to the service of that church it will remind us of all our troubles
on the other St. Catherine; and remind us, too, not to forget to be
grateful to God for our past deliverance.'
'A right good thought, sweetheart! And what say you to putting up a
stained glass window of St. Catherine herself? And beside the wheel we
will place a cord in her hand, which will be in memory of the cruel knot
of which you still bear the marks.'
'For shame, Harry! Nay, I was no saint. Why, if Captain Carew had not
come in the nick of time, I should, perhaps, have told everything I
knew. There, put up the gold pieces in their bag--I cannot abide the
sight of them; but Mr. Aylett will say, I am sure, that God can, and He
will, sanctify even stolen treasure.'
And so out of evil they brought forth good, as all can do who set their
minds to it. But that evening, when Mr. Aylett, with much surprise,
received the gold, he asked Harry, laughingly, if he were of the same
mind as of old, and if he would still like to wander forth.
'If Etta would come too, I would not mind seeing those beautiful lands
again,' he said. 'But, what with mother and the children, I know right
well she will not travel again for many a long year.'
'Prithee, then, go alone, Harry, an it please you,' said his wife; and
as Harry shook his head in a very determined fashion, Etta Fenn fell
a-laughing softly, knowing well that her husband would never leave her
for all the gold of the West Indies.
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bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
A story of an old endowed institution that has come under the notice of
the Charity Commissioners, who decide that a reorganisation and
extension of the school is necessary, and that the education it affords
must be brought into harmony with modern requirements.
"The story is very prettily told, and, although quiet in tone, contains
a full share of incident and interest."--STANDARD.
MAUD FLORENCE NELLIE
Or, Don't Care. With Four Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND.
Crown 8vo, bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
A story, showing how a veritable scapegrace of a boy, Harry Whittaker,
and his careless sister, Florrie, are gradually brought to see the costs
that may be entailed by the spirit that says "Don't care" to every
gentle correction of a fault.
REUBEN EVERETT
With Four Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND. Crown 8vo.
bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d.
Miss Coleridge's "Reuben Everett" is the story of "a truant bird, that
thought his home a cage," and describes the early days of training
colleges and railways in England.
"'Reuben Everett' is a story remarkably true to life."--RECORD.
BY MARY H. DEBENHAM
Author of "Our New Prentice," &c.
FOR KING AND HOME
With Three Full-page Illustrations, by J. F. WEEDON. Crown 8vo.
bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d.
Of the rising in La Vendee during the great French Revolution, and of
the adventures that subsequently befell a well-to-do family there,
together with an English cousin Dorothy, who was staying at the chateau
at the time.
"The events are well combined and cleverly conceived."--MANCHESTER
GUARDIAN.
MISTRESS PHIL
With Two Full-page Illustrations by C. O. MURRAY. Crown 8vo. bevelled
boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
"Mistress Phil" is Phillis Juliana Cheviot, and the story describes her
stay at Waltham Cross in the year 1760, and the results that followed
from it, giving also some lively pictures of mail-coaches and
highwaymen.
"A book good enough for anybody to read, of whatever age."--SCHOOL BOARD
CHRONICLE.
A LITTLE CANDLE
With Five Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled
boards, cloth gilt, price 3s. 6d.
Miss Debenham's story is concerned with Scotland in the stormy days of
Claverhouse. The "Little Candle" that throws its gentle warming beams
on all around her is Bride Galbraith, who, by her tenderness and grace,
comforts and softens the time of trial and affliction.
"The character (of Bride Galbraith) is a very beautiful one, and Miss
Debenham has drawn it with exquisite touch."--PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR.
FAIRMEADOWS FARM
With Two Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled
boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
The scene is laid in Hampshire about the time of Monmouth's rebellion.
The story gives some vivid pictures of the opening at Winchester of
Judge Jeffreys' harsh campaign against the rebels, and of the clouds
that hung over the neighbourhood for a time in consequence.
"A simple yet capitally related story, and the pathetic features are
very effectively realised."--LIVERPOOL COURIER.
ST. HELEN'S WELL
With Two Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND. Crown 8vo.
bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
"St Helen's Well" is a story of events that followed the rising in 1745
in favour of the Young Pretender.
"The perils and hardships of the adventure are graphically
described."--GUARDIAN.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "STARWOOD HALL"
KING'S FERRY
In the Days of the Press-gang. With Three Full-page Illustrations by W.
S. STAGEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d.
Concerning a certain ship's doctor who came to Weymouth in press-gang
days, and, staying at King's Ferry, tempted Simon Lydgate, the ferryman,
to do wrong; of the punishment that fell on Lydgate, and of the joy and
peace that followed the home-coming of his boy, Wat.
"Like its predecessors, this volume is full of picturesque pictures of
old life and manners."--TIMES.
JOAN'S VICTORY
With Two Full-page Illustrations by J. F. WEEDON. Crown 8vo. bevelled
boards, cloth gilt, price 1s. 6d.
Descriptive of a young woman of quick, passionate temper and stubborn
purpose, and of the means by which a young child unconsciously brought
her back to her better self and helped to soften her heart.
"Admirably detailed. Joan is really a very powerful psychological
study."--SPECTATOR.
PECKOVER'S MILL
A Story of the Great Frost of 1739. With Five Full-page Illustrations
by W. S. STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s. 6d.
A story of a Jacobite conspiracy that was on foot in the time of the
great frost of 1739, showing how Silas Peckover came home from abroad
and took possession of the home of his forefathers, and how the sweet
womanliness and honesty of Mistress Ruth influenced him for good.
"Silas Peckover is a character quite worthy of Ainsworth."--ACADEMY.
CHRIS DERRICK
A Stormy Passage in a Boy's Life. With Two Full-page Illustrations by
W. S. STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
This story supplies some lively sketches of what a mutiny often led to
at the beginning of the present century, and of the narrow shifts that
smugglers ran in escaping from the revenue officers.
"A spirited story of adventure."--SPECTATOR.
STARWOOD HALL
A Boy's Adventure. With Two Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND.
Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s.
A stirring story of how an honest boy fell into the clutches of a band
of highwaymen, or "gentlemen of fortune," in the middle of the last
century.
"The pictures of rural manners ... strike us as being extremely
life-like."--TIMES.
BY ESME STUART
Author of "The Little Brown Girl," "The Belfry of St. Jude's," &c.
THE SILVER MINE
An Underground Story. With Four Full-page Illustrations by W. S.
STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
An account of life on the rocky Devonshire coast, an unsuccessful
attempt to reopen a disused silver mine, and a long-standing family feud
between the Redwoods and the Pennants, with the incidents that served to
bring it to an end.
"A very bright, attractive story. The children are natural, and the
style is fresh and spirited."--JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.
THE VICAR'S TRIO
With Five Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND. Crown 8vo.
bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s. 6d.
The story of how young Lord Faulconbridge, a peevish and irritable boy,
is brought to see that the rank and wealth with which he has been
endowed bring with them equally great responsibilities.
CAST ASHORE
With Four Full-page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND. Crown 8vo.
bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
It was little Mona, who was cast ashore on the North Lancashire coast,
after the total wreck of the ship in which she was travelling under the
care of her father's servant, Hanson. How the unprincipled Jephtha
Toppin afterwards lures her away, with a view to earning a reward, and
how she is eventually rescued--both are told with considerable power and
vividness.
"A most exciting and yet perfectly wholesome tale of
adventure."--BANNER.
FOR HALF-A-CROWN
With Four Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth
gilt, price 3s.
Half-a-crown is the price that Mrs. Chemmo, a retired housekeeper living
in the cathedral city of Hedderstone on an annuity from her former
mistress, pays for a little waif, Natalia, to an Italian colony in a
squalid Portsmouth alley.
"There is a freshness and brightness about the book which too many of
the books for girls in which religious sentiments are at all introduced
lack very wofully."--PALL MALL GAZETTE.
CARRIED OFF
A Story of Pirate Times. With Four Full-page Illustrations by J. F.
WEEDON. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
It was fearless Harry Perm, the son of an Essex yeoman farmer, who was
"carried off" by Captain Henry Morgan, the famous buccaneer, and his
men, to the West Indies, where the Spanish settlements are attacked, and
adventures in plenty follow.
"Miss Stuart has gone with the times, and has given us a vigorous and
well-told story of the days of the buccaneers."--STANDARD.
BY M. E. PALGRAVE
Author of
"Under the Blue Flag," "Miles Lambert's Three Chances," &c.
IN CHARGE
A Story of Rough Times. With Five Full-page Illustrations by W. S.
STACEY. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s.
A stirring story of the days when smugglers were in plenty and
free-trading (as it was called) was in full swing.
"Full of incident and interest, very pleasantly told, and breathes an
excellent spirit throughout."--WESTERN MORNING NEWS.
A PROMISE KEPT
With Four Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. bevelled boards, cloth
gilt, price 2s. 6d.
A story with a lofty purpose, showing the amount of self-denial that is
necessary in those who leave their home and kindred to engage in
missionary work in far-off lands.
"Its tone is elevated and serious. Its purpose is to show the need of
aiming at a high standard of life, and the failure of those who only
dream noble things."--NATIONAL CHURCH.
LOST ON THE MOOR
By "TAFFY." With Frontispiece. Cloth boards, gilt, price 1s.
The story of Little Jack, how he was lost on the moor in a thick fog
through his brother's disobedience, and how he was found and finally
restored to his home.
"An evening will be very pleasantly spent and attended with much good in
reading this interesting story."--SCHOOLMASTER.
NATIONAL SOCIETY'S RECENT PUBLICATIONS
THE LIFE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST
_Illustrated from the Italian Painters of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
and Sixteenth Centuries._
A Preface has been furnished to this volume, on the Growth of Religious
Art in Italy, by Mr. F. T. PALGRAVE, who has also added Critical and
Explanatory Notes on the Pictures and their Painters.
Richly bound in cloth boards, bevelled, gilt edges, price 15s.
The Church Quarterly Review says: "This book is a perfect gem.... It
is, indeed, a relief to turn to such matchless designs as these. It
would be impossible to speak too highly of the knowledge of the history
of art, the elevation of thought, and the elegance of style which Mr.
Palgrave displays."
The Spectator says:--"The drawings are executed with much skill; and the
chromo-lithographic process is here employed with delicacy and success.
Mr. Palgrave's notes are pertinent and instructive. His Introduction is
able and eloquent."
The Academy says:--"This is a very beautiful book, and the
chromolithographs with which it is adorned, or rather, which are
illustrated by the text, reflect great credit on the care and skill of
all concerned in their production."
The Athenaeum says--"Byway of preface, a highly intelligent and critical
essay on the growth, aims, and developments of religious art in Italy by
Mr. F. T. Palgrave. Each well-weighed and thoughtful sentence is worth
reading. The general purport of the book is well represented by the
title. Mr. Palgrave vouches for the beauty of the drawings made by Mr.
Goodall, from which the chromolithographs were taken.... A very
ambitious effort has been extremely successful."
The Portfolio says:--"The eloquent and informing preface and the
critical notes on the pictures by Mr. F. T. Palgrave, are addressed to
an adult and cultured audience.... The literary part of the volume
deserves more careful consideration than is usually accorded to
letterpress penned to accompany even high-class illustrations."
The Art Journal says:--"A work which should be the most popular, as it
must be the handsomest, of Christmas books bearing a religious
character.... Twenty-four wonderful little chromo-lithographs from
drawings made on the spot.... The volume is in every way a beautiful
one."
THE STORY OF THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST. By R. E. H. 2s. 6d.
THE STORY OF THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST. By R. E. H. 2s. 6d.
THE STORY OF THE PASSION OF CHRIST. By R. E. H. 2s. 6d.
THE STORY OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. By R. E. H. 2s. 6d.
Each of the above four Volumes is illustrated
by Six Pictures from the Italian Painters
of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries.
NATIONAL SOCIETY'S DEPOSITORY, SANCTUARY, WESTMINSTER.