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"I ely "This is no place to talk over folly! It's

no place to talk anything! There's so to die, aren't we?" She leaned close to him, and the

question was hardlylips

"I think so," he answered, brutally

"Then let ! Keep still!" he shouted, and dreay from

her

"Why doesn't Captain Downs come back after us?"

"Don't be a fool! The sea has taken theed looks and were silent for a little while, and the

pride in both of them set up mutual barriers It was an attitude which

conspired for relief on both sides Because there was soto say in that riot of the sea and of their emotions

"I won't be a fool--not any more," she told him There was so distinctly

a new note in her voice that he stared at her "I am no coward," she

said She seeularly

Mayo's eyes expressed frank astonishain

that he did not understand wo that I am a fool, but I am not a