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Long before noon the Kansas cleared White Horse Island There was a

ticklish hour while Courtenay and Boyle looked for the shoal When its

long, low sandspit was revealed by the falling tide, the ship took

thought of her agony there, and traversed those treacherous waters with

due reverence Thenceforth, the run was due south until eight bells,

when, for the second tiht, the captain set the

course "South-40-East"

A stiff breeze blowing fro up

over the horizon, showed that the land of stor the

phenomenal frivolity which had let it bask in sunshine for an unbroken

spell of ten days But the gale which whistled into Good Hope Inlet

that night carried with it no disabled and blood-stained ship Mr

Malcolh the

vessel had quitted port that day, served dinner pro watch--by which no allusion is intended to an anied to repletion--and wore a proper professional air of

annoyance because everybody was late, owing to the interesting fact

that the half-elistas Island had

just been sighted

Elsie noted that Count Edouard de Poincilit came with the rest, and sat