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driven o Berserker at any hed Tony "What about attacking the

breakfast with savage fury? There goes the gong"

It was a beautifully calm day, and after breakfast most of the coe and smoke and chat or

read, others to play quoits or deck billiards

For once in a way Myra did not feel particularly energetic, and she sat

down on a comfortable deck chair beside her aunt and several other

wo badinage

with two or three ainst the rail

Tony Standish and Don Carlos were standing together, both leaning

against the rail, and Myra lay back in her chair with her hands clasped

behind her head, studying and coh half-closed but

keenly-observant eyes

She noticed that as Don Carlos talked and laughed he was fingering a

bolt under the rail behind him, saw hi up and calling out to hiainst which he and Tony were

leaning was that which is swung open to htened himself and took a pace forward