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"I thought I heard voices," said Emmeline, "but I was not sure"

She fell into e and sinister-looking thing in his hands He was splicing the two pieces together with a strip of the brown cloth-like stuff which is wrapped round the stalks of the cocoa-pal seemed to have been hurled here out of the blue by so so withshort down near the point, and began thrusting it into the soft earth to clean it; then, with a bit of flannel, he polished it till it shone He felt a keen delight in it It was useless as a fish-spear, because it had no barb, but it was a weapon It was useless as a weapon, because there was no foe on the island to use it against; still, it was a weapon

When he had finished scrubbing at it, he rose, hitched his old trousers up, tightened the belt of cocoa-cloth which Eot his fish-spear, and stalked off to the boat, calling out to Emmeline to follow him They crossed over to the reef, where, as usual, he divested hio about stark naked, yet on the island he alore soe, perhaps, after all

The sea is a great purifier, both of the reat sweet spirit people do not think in the same way as they think far inland What woman would appear in a town or on a country road, or even bathing in a river, as she appears bathing in the sea?

Some instinct made Dick cover himself up on shore, and strip naked on the reef In a e of the surf, javelin in one hand, fish-spear in the other

Emmeline, by a little pool the botto down into its depths, lost in a reverie like that into which we fall when gazing at shapes in the fire She had sat some time like this when a shout froazed to where he was pointing An a the curve of the reef, and scarcely a quarter of atopsail schooner; a beautiful sight she was, heeling to the breeze with every sail drawing, and the white foam like a feather at her fore-foot