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Dick, with the javelin in his hand, was standing gazing at her; he had dropped his fishspear, and he stood as h he were carved out of stone Emmeline ran to him and stood beside him; neither of the was visible, so close was she now, froreatof a gull, to the rail of the bulwarks A crowd ofat the island and the figures on the reef Browned by the sun and sea-breeze, E on the wind, and the point of Dick's javelin flashing in the sun, they looked an ideal pair of savages, seen fro away," said E-drawn breath of relief

Dick er in silence, then, having an to run up and down, calling out wildly, and beckoning to the vessel as if to call her back

Awas run up to the peak and dipped as in derision, and the vessel continued on her course

As aabout Her captain had for a moment been undecided as to whether the fores But the javelin in Dick's hand had turned the scale of his opinion in favour of the theory of savages