In ten years you mighb have risen to be master of "a barque ; that would have beon honourable. You might have gone down in a cale,—you probably would,—-and thab would have boen fortu nate. Bub a sbone - cutter ! You can understand,' growled Mr Shackford, reaching oub for his straw hab, which he put on aud crushed over his brows, 'I don't keep a boardiug-house for Slocum's hands.' 'Oh, I'm far from asking ib!' cried Richard. •_ am thankful lor bhe two nights' shelter I havo had.' * That's some of our sarcasm, I suppose,' said Mr Shackford, half turning, with his hand on the door-knob.. ' No, ib is some of my sincerity. I am really obliged to you. You weren't very cordial, to bo suro, bub I did nob deserve cordiality.' ' You have figured that oub correcbly.' ' I want to begin over again, you soo, and start fair. 5 ' Then begin by dropping Slocum.' * You have nob givon me a chance fco tell you whab tha arrangement is. However, ibs irrevocable.' .'I don't want to hear. I don'b caro a curse, so long as it is an arrangement,' and Mr Sbacklord hurried out of tho room, slamming the door behind him. Then Richard, quite undisturbed by his cou&in's unreasonabloness, sat himself down to eat tho lasb meal ho was evor to eat under_ that roof—a feat which his cousin's appetite had rendered comparatively easy. While engaged in this, Richard rovolved in his mind several questions as to his future abode. Ho could not reconcile his thought to any of tho working men's boarding houses, of which there wore five or six in fche slums of the village, where the door ways wore greasy, and women flitted about in the hottest weather wibh thick woollen shawls over their heads. Yeb his finances did nob permit him to a3pire to lodgings much more decent. If he could only secure a small room somowhero in a quiet neigh bourhood. Possibly Mrs Durgin would let him have a chamber in her cottage. He was beginning life over again, and ib struck him as neai-ly as an ideal plan to begin ib on tbe identical spot where ho had, in a manner, mado his firsb start. Besides, there was William Durgin for company, whon the long nights of fche New England set in. 