When Clara Burham accompanies her dearest friend Mrs Crayford to the Mayor's Ball, she quickly attracts admiration. But while all around her thrill to the sound of the music, Clara is strangely subdued. When the Atalanta returns she fears the worst. For somehow she knows that the one she loves and the vengeful man she has spurned will meet again on the waters of the frozen deep. . . In the second story in this volme, 'Mr. Wray's Cash-box,' a young girl asks the bankers Dunball and Dark to hang an advertisement for elocuation lessons in their window and, having previously seen her grandfather, the thespian Reuben Wray, strolling the town with a large cash-box beneath his arm, they agree. But what does the cash-box hold, and will Mr Wray manage to keep its contents safe? Will their faith be amply rewarded?