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We to whom he spoke looked with him down the river, and saw a tall ship with her prow to the ocean All her sails were set; the last rays of the sinking sun struck against her poop s and made of theht, but she went surely, away from the new land back to the old, down the stately river to the bay and the wide ocean, and to the burial at sea of one upon her With her pearly sails and the line of fla cloud; a little while, and she would be claie," I said

The lady who sat beside ht her breath "Ay, sweetheart," I went on "She carries one for whoone from out our life forever"

She uttered a low cry and turned to , her lips parted, her eyes eloquent "We will not speak of him," I said "As if he were dead let his na to tell thee, dear heart, dear court ladywhoainst for so o home, after all?"

"Horieve e is gone, but three days since the Esperance caazed atface "And you?" she whispered "Hoill you go? In chains?"

I took her clasped hands, parted them, and drew her aro in chains that I care not to have broken My dear love, I think that the summer lies fair before us Listen while I tell thee of news that the Esperance brought"

While I told of new orders frohaht hear the better When I had ceased to speak he bent to thelassy water toward the town that was no longer distant "I alad than I can tell you, Ralph and Jocelyn," he said, and the sht strea to us from the ruddy west laid roses in the cheeks of the so, and the loind lifted the dark hair from her forehead Her head was on my breast, her hand in er was her wedding ring, the ring that was only a link torn froiven me When she saw my eyes upon it, she raised her hand and kissed the rude circlet