[Footnote 63: Patroclus, in Homer's Iliad, was the friend whose death at the hands of the Trojans roused Achilles to action.

Or rather, cunning old De Foe,like Odusseus his helmet, wherewith he detected the disguised Achilles among the maids-of-honor,by his magic book, summons to the service of the sea its predestined ones.

There lies Achilles and his noble friend.

The Captain dwells with no little satisfaction upon the manner in which, after he had been so thoroughly outwitted by Mass David Williamson,the Covenanting minister, who played Achilles among the women at my Lady Cherrytree's,he succeeded in circumventing and taking prisoner "a notorious rebel, one Adam Stobow, a farmer in Fife near Culross."

Yes, if man were only a fragment of matter writhing in vain beneath the hammer of fate; but there is a spirit within him which knows how to smite Achilles on his heel, and Goliath in his forehead.