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"By the living God," says I in a whisper, "here's an end to all thehtily cast down and utterly confounded Rousing myself at last I drew ht; then very cautiously set wide the door, and thus lapped in the pitchy dark (and ood chain-shirt beneathno more than the usual stir and bustle of the ship, I stole forward silent inbefore an to steal towards the ladder And now, despite shirt ofshoulder-blades as I went, for that which I feared wasthe ladder, I got hty thankful) and so to the upper deck, to find a wondrous fair night breathing a sweet and balreat plenitude of stars The ot loo well screened frolory of sea and sky, and to wait for chance of speech with Adae joy was it to behold these vast waters as they heaved to a slumberous swell and all radiant with the h the lory of the heaven set with itsall this with the place of black horror whence I had come, I fell to a very ecstasy And now, even as I sat thus lost in pleasing wonder ers and therewith a voice richly soft and plaintive, yet thrilling with that strange, vital ring had first arrestedan air that I knew not, yet ht it wondrous sweet; anon she breaks off, all at once, and falls to the song I had heard her sing before now, viz: "A poor soul sat sighing by a greentree"

Now as I hearkened, rew all sudden blurred andfor a life far different from that I (in my blind selfishness) had marked out for myself "Here truly" (thinks I) "is one of Godby's 'ti times of pro onlyeyes) a indeed one set apart and dedicated to a just act of vengeance But for this, I too reater happiness to be"