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Dick put the hook away and took to the sculls He had a three- in, which did not ru mood for some time past: the chief cause, Eed; even her face had changed A new person had come upon the island, it seemed to him, and taken the place of the Emmeline he had known from earliest childhood This one looked different He did not know that she had grown beautiful, he just knew that she looked different; also she had developed neays that displeased hio off and bathe by herself, for instance

Up to sixand eating, and hunting for food and cooking it, building and rebuilding the house, exploring the woods and the reef But lately a spirit of restlessness had come upon hiue feeling that he wanted to go away from the place where he was; not from the island, but from the place where they had pitched their tent, or rather built their house

Itout in hi Of the cities, and the streets, and the houses, and the businesses, and the striving after gold, the striving after power Itout for Love, and not knowing yet that Love was at his elbow

The dinghy glided along, hugging the shore, past the little glades of fern and the cathedral gloo a promontory, she opened the view of the break in the reef A little bit of the white strand was visible, but he was not looking that way--he was looking towards the reef at a tiny, dark spot, not noticeable unless searched for by the eye Alhen he ca on his oars and gaze over there, where the gulls were flying and the breakers thundering

A few years ago the spot filled him with dread as well as curiosity, but fro, the dread had almost vanished, but the curiosity rehter of an aniazed for a while, then he went on pulling, and the dinghy approached the beach