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"Well," said she, at length, "we can't sit here all night and talk

about it, and I've used up all est, since you have seen fit to intrude on tomen in

this way We will hold a parley"

"When?"

"To-morrow"

"At what hour?"

"After breakfast"

"Why not at breakfast?"

"Because we shall eat alone, here,--auntie and I--in our cabin"

"Very well then, if it seeainst the new

commander of the ship that you will not sit at the captain's table--as

we did the second tiether, we three--don't you

remember, Helena?"

"Never--at your table, sir!" said Helena Eht me what that had meant before nohat it would

ht never sit at board of mine,

never eat the fruit of my bow and spear, never share with me the bread

of life, for one instant I felt the cold thrust of fate's steel once

more intook

its place, an ee!