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It was significant that nobody joked Honey this time "Say, this

island'll be a nut-house if this keeps up," Pete Murphy said irritably

"Let's go to sleep again"

"No, you don't!" said Honey "Not one of you is going to sleep You're

all going to sit up with me until the blasted sun comes up"

People always hastened to accoan to rake the fire, to prepare breakfast The others becaradually, but Honey still sat with his face towards the

water, watching

It grew brighter

"It's time we started to build a ca

nothing all the time We'll - "

"Great God," Honey interrupted "Look!"

Far out to sea and high in the air, birds were flying There were five

of theth,

swiftness, and grace; but for the most part they about a fixed area like

bees at a honey-pot It was a limited area, but within it they dipped,

dropped, curved, wove in and out

"Well, I'll be - "

"They're those black spotsthe first day, Pete," Billy Fairfax

said breathlessly "We thought it was the sun"