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He searched a the echoes with his voice; then he ca about hiht He sat down before the door of the house, and, looking at hies of exhaustion Profound grief and profound exhaustion act on the fra on his chest, his hands helpless He could hear her voice, still as he heard it over at the other side of the island

She had been in danger and called to hi, unconscious of it all

This thought round with the pal to his feet and hy He rowed to the reef: the action of a madman, for she could not possibly be there

There was no ht both lit and veiled the world, and no sound but the ht wind blowing on his face, the white foareat silence overhead, the fact that he stood in the centre of an awful and profound indifference ca

He returned to the shore: the house was still deserted A little bowl rass near the doorway

He had last seen it in her hands, and he took it up and held it for a htly to his breast Then he threw himself down before the doorway, and lay upon his face, with head resting upon his arms in the attitude of a person who is profoundly asleep

He ht just as a somnambulist searches, for he found himself towards dawn in the valley before the idol Then it was daybreak--the world was full of light and colour He was seated before the house door, worn out and exhausted, when, raising his head, he saw E out from amidst the distant trees on the other side of the sward