Chapter 25 BUT TOM CAN WRITE.

"A letter for you, Mrs. Trevarthen!"

Spring had come. The flight and finding of Myra had long since ceased to be a nine days' wonder, and she and Clem and Tom Trevarthen-received back into favour, and in some danger of being petted by Mrs. Purchase, who had never been known to pet a seaman-were shipmates now on board the Virtuous Lady, and had p