figure, such as authors delight to draw, and all men to read of, in
the pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for its own
sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait,
if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make new friends,
the fault will be altogether mine.

R. L S.

SARANAC, OCT., 1887.



CHAPTER I.



The Jenkins of Stowting - Fleeming's grandfather - Mrs. Buckner's
fortune - Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King
Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career - The Campbell-
Jacksons - Fleeming's mother - Fleeming's uncle John.


IN the reign of Henry VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin,
claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap
Philip of St. Melans, are found reputably settled in the county of
Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William
Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary 'John
Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of the County,' and
thence, by way of Jenkin ap Philip, to the proper summit of any
Cambrian pedigree - a prince; 'Guaith Voeth, Lord of Cardigan,' the