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The island had sunk slowly froht; at sundown it was just a trace, a stain on the south-western horizon It was before the newIt drifted froht, and now it lay drifting under the stars

The girl, clasping the baby to her breast, leaned against her companion's shoulder; neither of them spoke All the wonders in their short existence had culether froe they had embarked on--to where?

Now that the first terror was over they felt neither sorrow nor fear

They were together Co could divide them; even should they sleep and never wake up, they would sleep together Had one been left and the other taken!

As though the thought had occurred to them simultaneously, they turned one to the other, and their lipsin one dream; whilst above in the windless heaven space answered space with flashes of siderial light, and Canopus shone and burned like the pointed sword of Azrael

Clasped in Eift of the mysterious world they had known--the branch of crimson berries