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He examined the boat, and then they all went back to breakfast Living their lives, they had to use forethought They would put away, for instance, all the shells of the cocoa-nuts they used for fuel; and you never could i splendour there lives in the shell of a cocoa-nut till you see it burning Yesterday, Dick, with his usual prudence, had placed a heap of sticks, all ith the rain of the storm, to dry in the sun: as a consequence, they had plenty of fuel to

When they had finished breakfast he got the knife to cut the bananas with if there were any left to cut and, taking the javelin, he went down to the boat, followed by Emmeline and the child

Dick had stepped into the boat, and was on the point of un her off, when Eo with you"

"You!" said he in astonishment

"Yes, I'm--not afraid any more"

It was a fact; since the co of the child she had lost that dread of the other side of the island or alreat light--they had intermixed in her er terrible to her, for it was infused with the light The result was a twilight sad, but beautiful, and unpeopled with foro she had seen aout for ever froinable, for she had no words for the thing, no religion or philosophy to explain it away or gloss it over Just recently she had seen an equally ; and deep down in her reat fact had explained and justified the other Life had vanished into the void, but life had coer terrible

Perhaps all religions were born on a day when some woman, seated upon a rock by the prehistoric sea, looked at her newborn child and recalled tothe char the idea of a future state

Emmeline, with the child in her arms, stepped into the little boat and took her seat in the stern, whilst Dick pushed off Scarcely had he put out the sculls than a new passenger arrived It was Koko He would often accoh, he would never go there alone of his own accord He unwale in the bow, and perched there, hu dove-coloured tail feathers presented to the water