. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. Not far from thehouse which sheltered Scott when he was on shore, in the bleak littlesea-beaten village, there lived a widow, Mrs. James Lester, with an onlydaughter, Vera, sixteen years old. Scott well remembered being toldthat she was named for her grandmother, who was a Russian. And A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 15 now, unless he was dreaming — and he was as sure as sure could be thathe was not — Vera Lester was to receive an immense fortune. In the timid, modest fashion of the wild coast Scott thought of Veraas the prettiest, th
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. Not far from thehouse which sheltered Scott when he was on shore, in the bleak littlesea-beaten village, there lived a widow, Mrs. James Lester, with an onlydaughter, Vera, sixteen years old. Scott well remembered being toldthat she was named for her grandmother, who was a Russian. And A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 15 now, unless he was dreaming — and he was as sure as sure could be thathe was not — Vera Lester was to receive an immense fortune. In the timid, modest fashion of the wild coast Scott thought of Veraas the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest girl in all the world, and Vera asshe wandered among the pines and white birches growing on the bluff,accompanied by an old and almost blind Siberian hound, would standlooking away over the water, surging in angry waves, or glistening andflashing in the sun, thinking of that same strong, handsome sailor-boy. Now it suddenly occurred to him that if Vera should go to Russia,to be a great lady, she would never care what might become of PACKING THE CODFISH. Scott was glad for Vera, however, and the moment he was relievedhe hastened to tell Roy all that he had overheard. Captain Downings wife was dead and his only child, Louise, forwhom the brig was named, lived with her grandmother, in one of 16 4 STRANGE DISCOVERY. the largest houses in the village. Roy thought as much of her as Scottthought of Vera, and the four had always been the best of friends. Captain Downing was a stern officer, and the boys did not ventureto tell him what they knew; but Roy as he sat by his bunk mending a torn chaser, and Scott as he clung to hisfavorite retreat in the rigging, when offduty, sure that he was studying navigationwith all his might, kept constantly revolv-ing the matter in their minds,feeling as happy, for Vera, asthough the immense fortunewere falling to themselves. A few days later the strangerdied, and with the limited pos-sibilities of the brig was buried
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