. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. CLEANING THE COD. gauge the poor fellow above him told a story to the captain thac at oncebecame so intensely interesting to Scott that he could not have forcedhimself to lose a single word, even if he had realized that he was over-hearing what was not intended for him. The man said he was an officer sent from Russia to find a familynamed Lester. Seventeen years before a man, James Lester, officer onan American vessel, while at Sebastopol married the daughter of a 14 A STRANGE DISCOVERY. wealthy Russian, against her fathers
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. CLEANING THE COD. gauge the poor fellow above him told a story to the captain thac at oncebecame so intensely interesting to Scott that he could not have forcedhimself to lose a single word, even if he had realized that he was over-hearing what was not intended for him. The man said he was an officer sent from Russia to find a familynamed Lester. Seventeen years before a man, James Lester, officer onan American vessel, while at Sebastopol married the daughter of a 14 A STRANGE DISCOVERY. wealthy Russian, against her fathers will. He disowned her, and shesailed for America with her husband. A year later a daughter was bornand the husband died. Nothing further was known. In the mean-time the Russian fathers remaining child had died, and recently upon. CODFISHING. his own deathbed he willed his immense fortune to this with the necessary papers, the officer had come to find the girl,to take her to Russia to prove her identity and receive her steamer upon which he sailed was burned at sea, and with the otherunfortunates in the rescued boat he had made a struggle for life. Captain Downing took the papers, promising to keep them safely, andcarry him at once to the person whom he sought. Then all was still in the cabin and Scott sat watching the srauo-e andthinking;. It was one of those strange coincidences where the driftwoodon Lifes ocean is driven right where it is required. 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
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