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"Nobody we knoill ever come to see us, if they think we read books," said Siward

"Isn't it delightful!" sighed Sylvia "We're going to becos for et the California claret for the cellar, dear We will need it e read Henry Jaht on one hand, laughed, and looked out at the surf drenching the reefs with silver

"To think," he said, "that I could ever have been enough afraid of the sea to hate it! After all, at low tide the reef is always there in the sa All that surf only sho strong a rock can be"

He smiled, and turned to look at Sylvia; and she lay there, silent, blue eyes looking back into his Suddenly they gli his head down to hers convulsively, her quivering ainst his lips Then she rose to her knees, to her feet, dazed, brushing the tears froht have let you face the world alone! Dearest, dearest, we ht The sea is always there--always, always there!"

He looked straight into her eyes, fearlessly, tenderly, and she looked back with the divine, untroubled gaze of a child, laying her slender, sun-tanned hands in his

And, deep in his body, as he stood there, he heard the low challenge of his soul on guard; and he knew that the Enemy listened