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"Little did I think, Val look so

cosy and sweet for me--these flowers on the table and all those pretty

fal-lals on -table Little did I think it was my little

ho had prepared thee feeling of happiness and brightness came over me"

"And I knew the first tone of your voice, Cardo Oh, I would know it

anywhere--a a thousand"

There were innumerable questions for the one to ask and the other to

answer as they sat in the glowing firelight First, there was the

description of the repairs required by Captain Owen's ship--"Blessed

repairs, Valmai!"--and the extraordinary special Providence which had

caused the ss Ariadne to collide at e her that Cardo's berth and those of the

three other inmates of his cabin would alone be disturbed by the

necessary repairs

"Captain Owen thinks we shall be ready to sail in three days, so it is

not worth while writing to

which looked so disuessed it would culht about the

collision, and so unite ed a e, it was yours and mine, dearest"

"But, Cardo--"

"'Butcan alter the

fact that you are my own little wife"