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Next h the trees awakened Emmeline in the tent which they had i Dawn came later here than on the other side of the island which faced east later, and in a different manner for there is the difference of worlds between dawn co over the sea

Over at the other side, sitting on the sand with the break of the reef which faced the east before you, scarcely would the east change colour before the sea-line would be on fire, the sky lit up into an illioon, the ripples of light see to chase the ripples of water

On this side it was different The sky would be dark and full of stars, and the woods, great spaces of velvety shadow Then through the leaves of the artu would coh, and the leaves of the breadfruit would patter, and the sound of the reef become faint The land breeze had awakened, and in a while, as if it had blown theone, and the sky a veil of palest blue In this indirect approach of dawn there was sos seen were indecisive and vague, just as they are in the gloalish summer's day

Scarcely had Emmeline arisen when Dick woke also, and they went out on to the sward, and then down to the water's edge Dick went in for a swi hireat stor and exhilarating, and thisE in the water, she laughed, and held the child up to watch him She was fey The breeze, filled with all sorts of sweet perfumes from the woods, blew her black hair about her shoulders, and the full light ofover the palm fronds of the woods beyond the sward touched her and the child Nature see them

Dick came ashore, and then ran about to dry hihy and exa for half a day, and row round to the old place to see how the banana trees had fared during the storm His anxiety about them was not to be wondered at The island was his larder, and the bananas were a s of a careful housekeeper about them, and he could not rest till he had seen for hie there was any