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Now as I stood thus, staring out to sea, the moon sank and with it my heart also, for as the dark came about reat fear of the future; wherefore, beholding the looladly have seen her a shattered wreck, and hearing the hoarse laughter and voices of these lawless felloaking the echoes of Deliverance Beach, I hated theer was added But now cometh my dear lady to stand beside me, to steal her hand into mine, and never a word betwixt us for a while At last: "So endeth our solitude, Martin!"

"Aye!"

"Our deliverance is come!" says she and then, very softly, "Doth not this rejoice you?" Here answer found I none, since now at last I knew this the very thing I had coain save for these hoarse unlovely voices where they launched and boarded the longboat "Master Adao on board, Martin, but 'tis near dawn so will I bide with you to welcolad you stayed, Daers, and so she bringson the warm sand, would have me sit by her; thus, side by side, atched the boat pull away to the ship, and presently all about us was hushed and still save for the never-ceasing e

"Martin," says she in a while, "with this new day beginneth for us a new life! In a few short hours we sail for England"

"England! Aye, to be sure!" says I, ard, strove to look happy yetto her knees, she takes lad?" she questions, a little breathlessly, "Glad to coland--to leave this wilderness?"

"Aye!" I nodded, well-nigh choking on the word

"Dear Martin, look at rief?"

"O, e of raceless ways; England is no place for like of ht for you an' need be, but how entlemen?"

Now at this she claspssoft cheek tome "silly," "dear," "foolish," and "beloved"