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Months passed away Only one bird remained in the branches of the artu: Koko's children and mate had vanished, but he reold and darkest a presented to the spring

Dick, who had a cooon in his head, and knew all the soundings and best fishing places, the locality of the stinging coral, and the places where you could wade right across at low tide--Dick, oneexpedition The place he was going to lay some two and a half oing alone

Eh the beads of the necklace she sometimes wore This necklace had a history In the shallows not far away, Dick had found a bed of shell-fish; wading out at low tide, he had taken some of them out to exausting did its appearance seeht have been the last, only that under the beard of the thing lay a pearl It was about twice the size of a large pea, and so lustrous that even he could not but adh quite unconscious of its value

He flung the unopened oysters down, and took the thing to E by chance to the same spot, he found the oysters he had cast down all dead and open in the sun He examined them, and found another pearl embedded in one of them Then he collected nearly a bushel of the oysters, and left the a necklace for his companion She had one made of shells, he intended toti needle, and at the end of fourwas complete

Great pearls most of them were--pure white, black, pink, soular The thing orth fifteen, or perhaps twenty thousand pounds, for he only used the biggest he could find, casting away the s had just finished restringing them on a double thread She looked pale and not at all well and had been restless all night

As he went off, ar tackle, she waved her hand to hi up Usually she followed hi away like this, but thisshe just sat at the doorway of the little house, the necklace in her lap, following him with her eyes until he was lost amidst the trees