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They caenerosity of

their eer any doubt as to

the future of the men who once starved on Hue and Cry

Captain Mayo had declared that he knehere to find faithful workers

when it cae had come to him when he stepped foot on shore, hands

outstretched to hiht And when she put her hands in his

he knew, in his soul, that this was the greeting he had been waiting

for; her words of congratulation were the dearest of all, her smile was

the best reward, and for her dear self he had been hungry

But he would not admit to himself that he had come to woo

When the soft dusk had softened the harsh outlines of the little hamlet,

and the others were busy with their own affairs and had left Mayo

and Polly to thee, where they spent that first evening after they had been saved

fro silence between them "We have had no

opportunity--I have not dared yet to tell youof all," she ventured

"The one up inland I know I aotten"

He stared at her "Forgotten?"