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 CHAPTER XIX.

 WOULD HE BE HUNG?
 "'Faith, my Lord, I spoke it but according to the trick. If you will hang me for
 it, you may; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipt."
 -Shakespeare.

 S time went on, Jack's long and tedious
 journey on board the "Egeria" became
 productive of calm reflection with regard
to the way he had left his home, and this reflection
had in its turn bred repentance. His anger against
his father had now quite melted away, and in its
place was remorse for his own hastiness in forsak-
ing his home.
 He began to realise at last how very provoking
his own conduct must have seemed to his father,
and how naturally that father had misunderstood
the whole case. He began to do in his own mind
the wisest thing that man, woman, or child can do,
he began to put himself in another's place.