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"Doubtless it seeh, after that Cimmerian darkness below," he remarked "Would you like to rest here a ainst the side of the port, looked out at the beauty of the light

"We are off Hatteras," he informed me, "but we have not met with the stormy seas that vex poorto our consort We were separated by the hurricane that nigh sunk us, and finally drove us, helpless as ere, toward the Florida coast and across your path For us that was a fortunate reef upon which you dashed The gods must have made your helaped not for you Why did every wretch that we hung nextcurse you before he died?"

"If I told you, you would not believe me," I replied

I was dizzy with the bliss of the air and the light, and it see that he would not believe me The wind sounded in my ears like a harp, and the sea beckoned A white bird flashed down into the crystal holloeen taves, hung there a second, then rose, a silver radiance against the blue Suddenly I saw a river, dark and ridged beneath thunderclouds, a boat, and in it, her head pillowed upon her arm, a woman, who pretended that she slept With a shock ain The sea was but the sea, the wind the wind; in the hold below me layme in the state cabin were ht and theme at the yardarm that same hour

"I have had my fill of rest," I said "Whom am I to stand before?"

"The newly appointed officers of the Coinia," he answered "The ship carries Sir Francis Wyatt, the new Governor; Master Davison, the Secretary; young Clayborne, the surveyor general; the knight eneral, and the Treasurer, with other gentlee Sandys, the Treasurer"

The blood rushed to my face, for it hurt me that the brother of Sir Edwyn Sandys should believe that the firing of those guns had been my act His was the trained observation of the traveler and writer, and he probably read the color aright "I pity you, if I can no longer esteeht than a brave man's shield reversed"