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The Aloha gently freed herself froh three eventful days, and slipped out toward the waste of water bound by the flaunting auturant of bark and secret berries, blew in puffs froull swooped to her nest in a cranny of the basalt From below a servant calasses and decanters and tinkling ice It was all very tranquil and public and alh tropic seas at the moment of their unrestrained sundown, and the odour of tea-cakes about the pleasantly-littered deck And for the ht, every one kept silent Now that The Aloha was really antic i what a trick had been played It was as if the curtain had just fallen and the lights of the auditoriuht one another breathless or in tears, pretending that the tragedy had really happened

"Proe softly, in sudden alaret to New York you are not going to forget all about Yaque--and me--and believe that none of us ever happened"

Olivia looked toward the serene mystery of the distance

"New York," she said only, "think of seeing you in New York--now"

"Was I of e anxiously

"Sometimes," said Olivia adorably, "I shall tell you that you were But that will be only because I shall have an idea that in Yaque you loved me e contentedly, "e are at dinner I shall look down the table at you sitting beside so some baneful literary theory, and I shall think: What do I care? He doesn't know that she is really the Princess of Far-Away But I do"

"And he won't know anything about our ht that I was kidnapped, either--the literary-theory person," Olivia tranquilly took away his breath by observing

St George looked up at her quickly and, secretly, Olivia thought that if he had been attractive when he was courageous he was doubly so with the present adorably abashed look in his eyes

"When--alone?" St George asked unconvincingly

She laughed a little, looking down at him in a reproof that was all approbation, and to be reproved like that is the divinest praise