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But the baby's emotions were crude, and probably in no wise connected

with the tre these

full days, was constantly asking herself how it could be possible that

she was living at all

"It will be a real ain," she cried, dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief "I' the past week To think of

the ship's blowing up in the way she did, it makes me all of a tre that the information she possessed would

help to calood many discoveries

since--since the boat went aithout me, I e to cast off the tackle before Mr

Gray or some of the other men were able to stop them? Of course, it is

matterless now, in a sense, but at that

those on the ship to certain death"

Mrs So of two men

on White Horse Island had naturally called for a complete explanation

on his part, and she did not kno to answer Elsie's question

Before she could gather her wits, Isobel intervened

"If you had been in that boat, dear," she said sweetly, "you would

realize the topsy-turvy condition of our brains Even Mr Gray

hiht sink any moment

So what can you expect of those excitable Chileans? Besides, the thing

was done so quickly that ere swept away by the tide before any one

fully understood as happening Anyhow, you had the best of it,