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"When the moon is over Pelican Island" How often Ledscha had repeated this sentence to herself while Heruests!

When she entered the boat after nightfall she exclaimed hopefully, sure of her cause, "When the oal was quickly reached in the skiff; the place selected for the nocturnalwas a familiar one to her

The pirates had remained absent from it quite two years Formerly they had often visited the spot to conceal their are papyrus thicket on the shore also hid boats frorassy seat which looked like an ordinary resting place, but beneath it the corsairs had built a long, walled passage, that led to the other side of the island, and had enabled h the earth had sed them

"When the moon is over the island," Ledscha repeated after she had waited more than an hour

The time had not yet come; the expanse of water lay before her ray, and only the dies of the waves that washed the island showed that the ht

When its full orb floated above the island Hermon, too, would appear, and the happiness which had been predicted to Ledscha would begin

Happiness?

A bitter smile hovered around her delicately cut lips as she repeated the word

Hitherto no feeling was an to stir in her heart, it see its web about her, and vague fears, painful lad expectation into the shadow

Yet she yearned with passionate fervour to see Herain, and when he was once there all must be well between them The prediction of old Tabus, who ruled as mistress over so many demons, could not deceive

After Ledscha had so lately reminded the lover who so veheht of the full moon meant to her, she could rely upon his appearance in spite of everything

Various h in Tennis--she adrew calmer--but he had promised to come; he would surely enter the boat, and she--she would subht with the Hellene