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That Christobal left several things unsaid Elsie knew quite well He

plulishto nationality he was a true hidalgo

Indeed, there was a touch of vanity in the way he exane he now poured into Elsie's elass He

scrutinized the ith the air of a connoisseur He was looking for

the gas to rise in three or four well-defined spirals And he nodded

doubtfully, before drinking it, as one ht brand, but of what year?"

Then it dawned on the girl that both her elderly friend and she herself

were accepting an extraordinary situation with remarkable nonchalance

"How many of us remain on the ship?" she asked

"Very few--on the effective list The captain, an engineer whose name

I do not know, Mr Tollemache, and ourselves make up the total"

"Where is Mr Boyle?"

"Ah, poor Boyle! I fear he is done for He is very badly wounded I

bandaged him as well as I could, but the call on deck was io to hie has stopped, and I gave hi more for him I told

Courtenay it was quite useless to place hiotten"

"I did not iotten," said Elsie, and,

for soo on