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as events transpired What are the discoveries you spoke of?"

"Well, so the coal"

"But ould do such a thing?"

"That is hard to say The captain believes that the culprit will be

found out through the insurance policies He and the others were

discussing the affair one day in the chart-house--soon after the

dynaes were discovered--and you cannot tell how surprised

I was to hear him mention Ventana's name in connection with it"

"Ventana's na her pallid as a

statue There was a gasp in her voice which startled her own ears

Lest her agitation should be noted too keenly, she bent forward and

propped her face on her clenched hands, staring fixedly at the distant

cliffs in a supreme effort to appear apathetic Elsie heard that dry

sob, but her friend's see a little whether or not Christobal's veiled

hint regarding a by-gone tenderness between the two ht of the ship's break-down

Indeed, so warm-hearted was she that she hesitated a ; but she felt that it would be altogether better for Isobel

to be prepared for the revelations which the successful end of the

ship's voyage would assuredly bring forth So, pondering unspoken

thoughts the while, she told the others exactly what Tollemache,

Christobal and Courtenay had said, and even revealed to them that which

Courtenay himself did not yet know