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Alma Marston's voice interrupted his sonificance of that ditty "Are you up there, Boyd?" she asked, in

cautious tones

He hurried to the head of the ladder and saw her at its foot, half

hidden in the mists even at that short distance He reached down his

hand and she ca his expression with both eagerness and apprehension "I

couldn't stay away froood

to us! Father could not see me as I came forward I must tell you, Boyd

He has ordered me to stay aft"

He did not speak

"Has he dared to say to you what he has been saying below about you?"

"I don't think it needed any especial daring on your father's part; I am

only his servant," he said, with bitterness

"And he--he insulted you like that?"

"I suppose your father did not look on what he said as insult I repeat,

I aht! I know itabout what is right to do on the sea"

"I understand ?"