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"Get off this island, you and your ent

"Yes, e are ready to leave, sir"

Mayo ondering at his own obstinacy He knew that a rather boyish

teance, had considerable

to do with his stand in the matter, but underneath there was protest

at the world's injustice He felt that he had been having personal

experience with that injustice He knew that he had not come out to Hue

and Cry to volunteer as the champion of these unfortunates, but now

that he was there and had spoken out it was evident that he must allow

hient had

declared in the hearing of all that this interference had settled the

doo close to the champion,

and she looked at him with eyes that flashed with pride in him and

spirit of her own She reached and took one of the frightened children

by the hand

"If I have been a little hasty in ize," pleaded the

captain, anxious to repair the fault "I don't ht to do so!"