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It was daylight again, a dawn of dense mist, without wind or hail, ere

any ht of sleep Then Elsie went to

her cabin and dreaold, dohich she was

compelled to sail in a cockle-shell boat, while fantastic monsters swam

round, and eyed her suspiciously

When, at last, she awoke after a few hours of less exciting slu on a fairy-land of green

and blue and diaroves of copper

beeches to frame the picture There was no pillar of smoke on the

lower hills to bear silent testi alongside told her that the previous night's events

were no part of her dreanize--a ray hair and a deeply lined, weather-tanned face,

fro eyes looked kindly at her--said

in Spanish: "Good , señorita I hope I did not startle you when I cas I should not have said in the presence of a

lady But believe ht"