The Exeter Times, 1886-7-22, Page 6The Dgvo That Neve! Hatch,
There'd a young nim on the corner,
1! itI d with l}fd ►nd strength and hope,
Looking far beyond tbo present.
With tae hole world in hie Bootee.
R a greenling a to morrow,
That ]Phantom none yon 04911;
Today 19 1066. da'a waiting
For the eggs that never hatch.
There's an old man over yonder.
With a worn and weary face,
With searohieg, anxious features,
And weak. uncertain Pete -
Ile is living in the future,
With no desire to oatoh
The golden. now He's waiting
For the eggs that never hatch,
There's e a a world of mon and women,
With their lice's work yet urodone,
Who are sitting, standing, moving
lieneath the same great sun;
Ever eager for the future.
But non content to snatch
The present. T .ey are waiting;
For the eggs that never naton,
Retribution
Lasts
CHAPTER IV.—(OoeiTinnee.)
On the silver sande of Eaethere Bay, Ce -
oil and Argent paced alone. Mr. Verieton
and the clergyman had declined to deeoend
therough dlflioult path to the beach, and
Cecil was only toe glad to undertake the
sole charge of the lady. It was a bold
romantio coast, and an opalescent shimmer-
ing sea, At either side of the bay preoipit-
one headlands out the haze sky, their gran-
ite surfaces starred here and there with
scarlet poppies or tufted grass. Half way
up one of these a white cottage needed in a
cleft of rook. Not a single Bail broke the
sleepy iridescent mirror of the mea, where
wavesfell with the faintest murmur in one
long creamy ripple on the shore. There
was no sound, no sign of life, save the blue
wreath of smoke from the pottage above.
The smooth sand was undisturbed by any
footsteps but their own. The martins fly-
ing swiftly to and fro and a orimeon butter•
fly were the only other animate creatures In
sight, It was a charmed solitude.
Atter strolling a little way, Argent eat
down,idly gathering the "liver shells that
lay near, eoettered like pearls on the sande,
Her large soft eyes were fixed upon the level
stretch of water, a dreamy light in their
azure depths. S ending by her aide, Ile
dwelling upon her graceful figure, and
hie heart beating with a very passion of in.
tense love, Cecilia thoughts were busy.
Should he ever find the key te this girl's
affections ? Would those bine eyenfill with.
lava's sweet tremulous beams for him ?
Weald that pale fair cheek ever blush, and
these calm pulses quicken at hie appreaoh ?
E yen as he involuntarily asked himself these
questions hie heart sank. The bright hope•
twine's of a few hours since eeemed to be
all vanishing and slipping from his grasp,
the happiness whioh had seems
h pp d so real and
near disappeared in the far distance, even if
net wholly lost. Should he ever win her ?
Wan h net proverbial that men rarely got
that one prize on whioh their hearts were
set ? Why should he be an exception to the
rule ? The tender silenoe of earth and sky
oppreased him, and the murmur of the sea
filled him with vague indefinable melan-
choly, Why did Argentait there so unmov-
ed, se still, and so forgetful of hie presence ?
Why was she so cold, so proud, and so un-
utterably fair ?
" Oh, hew beautiful it le 1" exclaimed Ar-
gent suddenly; and the young man started
at the sound ef her voice—he had net
dreamed of her breaking the long silence
whioh had fallen upon them. With the
words, his doubts and his gloom vanished,
and hope smiled en him once more,
" It is indeed," he said, seating himself
by her aide. " I have net been down here
before, and did net expect to see such a
lovely little bay. How pretty these shells
ar 1''—taking one in his hand.
"' what is it? A learned man
Coale give it a oiumay name.
t him name it who can,
h . ty woel.. a he same.' "
dreamily happy to, speak m cit ; and Ar:
gent was always slow to speak—silent to e,
fault, some people would hove said,
When Mr, Graham left the Mere Home,
whioh he did early, having Important let•
tern to write, be pvrsuaded,'his oornpanion
tp walk through the garden with him` on the
pretext of seeing the eunset, ,A etrantgn
sunset it was atter a day so eat and calm
The sun sank blood --red, the whole eky was
oovered with streaks of orineon, fading to
purple In the east. Iu this strange n's-
earthly light the house stood out red and:
threatening, The leaves flattered redly,
and the flawere took eaoh a deeper flush, a
richer rose•hue, while the dietant sea
mingled with the glowing west,
" What a wonderful sunset 1" exclaimed
Ceoil, as Argent paused, at tee gate,
'a There is srmething almost awful about
it,something ominous of 1 know not what."
' As if the very elements were on fire,"
supplemented Argent, raising her eyes to
the glowing vault above,
°°
libeat
Aa the dread lay were dawning
epee na," said Ceoil aolemnly.
The girl drew the shawl she wore more
closely round her shoulders with a quiok
gesture.
" Are yon gold ?' he asked, tenderly aux.
lous..
" Ne, only--"
Only what'."—stili more tenderly,
when she patient
" O sly I must go in now," she answered
abruptly. "Good night."
" Meet you ? Good night, then "—press•
ing her hand as warmly as he dared. " This
has been a happy, happy day ; one I obeli
never forget ! Have you been happy, Ar-
gent?"
He uttered her name tremulously, hie
lips lingering on its soft syllables ; but
Argenta thoughts were evidently far away.
She merely said, absently—
" What? Oh, yee 1"
Then he was fain to release her hand
and depart with that last stab for company,
Before he entered the path whioh led out
ef eight of Verieton, he turned round for
one last look. And there, while his heart
beat jsyfully at the thought that she
should watch him thus, leaning on the
gate, her face turned towards him, 'toad
Argent. In the crimson sunset her golden
hair and her white dress seemed, as he
looked more closely, to be dyed in blood.
It was a strange and terrible sight 1 tike
a cloud over his new•bern jov a dark im-
palpable shadow of foreboding descended,
not te be thrust away ; and perfeotly
superstition -proof though he deemed him-
self, Cecil Graham turned hastily away with
an Involuntary shudder,
CHAPTER V.
The days 'went on, eaoh laden with its
dreams, its hopes, its flowers of promise, rte
pasafenate love, Ito attendant sorrow ; and
theoe o
p m progressed. In it Ceoil poured
out his soul, Ito hero uttered all the elm"
anent love and longing the author dared
not yet speak. In it Argent Tarlatan mov-
ed, a glorified vision of ideal womanhood.
S>naething of the odere and flowers of eum-
mer-time breathed through its pages, and
something ef the wild storms of summer
too. Cecil felt impelled, in spite of him-
self, by that strange power whioh geverne
the poet's will, to bring his poem to a sad
and mournful close.
He read somewf his verses to Nellie Mill
as they sat together in the jossamine-roofed
arbour in the little garden ; for good Mrs.
Mill, now that she knew her ledger better,
made no objection to an occasional chat ;
and Nellie's tears had fallen thickly and
fast over the poem, until Cecil had to
soothe and pet her like a child, her tears
flattering him not a little. PIeased with
what he chose to consider her appreciation,
he read her mere and more, never thinking
how dangerously sweet these readings might
be to the young unsophisticated girl,
Even though madly in love with another
woman, he found it pleasant to sit with
Nellie when he could not be with his idol.
lamed to watch her changing
breast, to see the
wend in her P -
brightened, her hand never trembled, and
her oolour never deepened at his approaoh,
Often when he nnex,reotodly met her his
heart would throb 5111 he omelet hardly see,
and his blood would coarse ewif fly , bus the
first aooente et ber gold low. vgioe would
strike like Joe on his veius. Many a dam
he bad been go the Pellet of telling hex all
his tale of love ; but when ber eyes rested
on his with their remote agreeing gaga,
" Leek calm, yet bland,
1 shell tot know, l; will not.Maleretend,'
the words died on his lips, He mast welt,
ire told himself, with a sigh ; walt longer
yet.
But now the' hour had Dome. He was
going bank to town, so he told Mr. Voris.
ton, whose regret had been unfeigned,
Glaaoing at Argent as he aafd it, he had
surely oaught a gleam of interest in the
quiet fees, an, unmistakable shadow had
ammed her eyes, and her voice had a
ring et madness when next she spoke. His
patience, then, had earned its reward 1
Hie love had stirred the placid depths of
her,glriteh nature at last 1 Now was the
One to put out hie hand and grasp the
pearl, to plunk the lily and wear it cn his
breast 1
"I am going away," he said, at length,
abruptly, when the girl, having dropped
her Rower, was apparently abaorbed in
watching the rain, " Will you mho me a
little, Argent 1"
" Yea," she answered very gently.
" Are you sorry then le—coming a little
nearer.
Argent elapsed her hands before her,
and looked out through the thick leaven
to +he troubled west, where a bar ef
amethyst light parted the gray °lends.
Am I aorry ?" she repeated dreamily.
" Yea, I suppose so," elghieg a long soft
sigh. That . sigh set hie heart beating
wildly ; and, before he could go en, elle
said, ' Bat you will oome again soon—
seen ?"
Cecil paused a moment to command his
voice. How beautiful, hew sweet, how
pure ebe_wae ! And; all his awn, be knew
it nowd.,;Stiiling with a 'mighty effort the
madthYobitiilg ,ef his pulses, with a paeaiop-
ate Movement he tock 'beth the fragile
hands into hie wane grasp, presafng them
againathie breast ; and, while else steed
1°0104iup• at.'him, pale and statue -like
In the, gathdring gloom, with her eyes,
fail of some new emotion—was it pain or
pleasure !—fixed upon his, he meld, in
ranee that shook her to the maul—
" Argent, Argent, I will come again if
you bid me ; for I love you, darling, my
darling 1"
CHAPTER V I,
"Well, have the travellers arrived ?"
asked Madge Graham, throwing her hat
aside, as she sank into a chair, apparently
quite overwhelmed bythe heat,
No," whelmd respondedCecilia, one of her
sisters, coldly. " It would be a relief to
my 'mind if one of them never did arrive.
Why could net Cecil have married some
one in society 1,'
"Lady Mary Grainger, for instance,"
murmured the third sister, who was fan-
ning herself languidly In the depths of a
luxurious lounge, " But ef all things that
he, with his relined mathetlo testae, should
have teed himself -4u this 'rash hasty way
to a --to a mere country bumpkin!"
"Outrageous 1" exclaimed Cecilia.
" My dears," remarked Mrs. Graham
mildly, "you forget that your brother de-
scribes Mies Veristen as being a meat
beautiful and aristocratic young lady.
'He weuid,soarooly be likely, you know, to
admire a ' country bumpkin," '
" Oh, don't tell me 1" replied Cecilia
sharply. " It is just your high-flown
geniuses who de all the most ridiouleua and
outre things. He would get some rubbish
into his head about this girl, and fanoy her
perfection, no doubt 1"
"Really, Cie," Dried Madge, " your
language in elegant 1 You have got ° rub-
bish,' as you term It, into your head 1
Why, Cecil describes her ala lady of high
de r: h out of the world if you
- ee for that. He
r pocket—
s a lily,
Oh,
er-
te
tion buret froom the young wife's lips as ,she
optered.
You like your rooms ?" asked hfgdge,'
opening a door into a
puk-lined ne
at
.
ThJa your boudoir. Yeur droning-,
room" are opposite. I hope you won't mind
being condemned to town for a fortnight
longer? We cannot persuade my father to
leave before then,"
" Oh, ng 1" replied Nellie la a hushed
tone, scarcely understanding Male speech,
Madge forced bath a sigh as she looked a
moment at her brother's country bride ;
then, with a murmured " I will send your
maid ; but please don't change your dress,"
she left the room, and ltdrs, Cecil Graham
was left alone.
A most unoemfortable dinner was that
whioh followed. Cecil, totally unlike him-
self, was silent and abatraoted, replying in
monosyllables to hie mother'e endless gees.
tiontnge, He seemed like one in a dream,
whose heart and thoughts were far away,
not indeed like a man who had won and
wedded the woman ho had chosen out of. all
the world to be his wife.
The bride, in her travelling drain of bril-
liant hued and country make, her fade ex•
oessively flushed, ,;her• hands 'trembling,
painfnily nervous and•gahche in manner,
felt herself to be the objeot of mute orifi•
diem en the hart 'of her new relatives,` as
well as the servants, of whomshe stood
nearly as much , in awe. .The " knowledge
did not tend to improve either her manners
or ber appetite. It was easy ,to dee that.
one -and alt disapproved of her, though the
disapproval was veiled by :a great show of
peliteneaa ; and the girl's Heart swelled
within her with wounded pride and vanity.
As for Madge, she knew lint what to
make of it. There must have been some
dreadful mistake. This tittle country girl
was not in the least, like, the graoetul,;gold-
en-hairedoreatnre his passionate adoration
of whom Cecil had oonfided;to his feeeeite,
sister, Plainly enough Cecil was:ralsorable
—plainly . he did non care an . atom for his
bride, ' What was the solution et the eye
Eery? Madge had a horrible, feeling of the
world's being out ,pf joint,; as -she. sat
throngli the long stately dinner, painfully
alive to ul1 the gaucheries of her brether'e
wife,. painfullyalive 'toCroilia's frown, and
ender ae the ,,bride, seed " No, sir," teller
fatherlin-law. ;
Later: in the evening,: wlien'ohe 'or two
people had come'i`a and eenvereation was
going on freely, Madge found-anepportuni-
ty of drawing, Peon :aside into the 'empty
ooneervatory. L eying her, baudhen:hie: arm,
with a lading; geattire,,she said;tearftelly-
" Oh, `Cnofl 1 Tell me, dear, how all this
has.happened."
" All what ?" he asked, a frown darken-
ing hie face for a mom ant,
" Yon know, Cecil. Don't pretend to
misunderstand me. Won't you confide in
your own little sister ? I can't bear to see
you so 'Wearable 1"
Coil eat wearily down on an artificial
rooky -seat ; and, groaning, he hid his face
in his hands.
FOR THE THOUGHT ELM,
Were we as eloquent as angels, we eheuld
please; some more by listening than by
talking.
Inquisitive people are the funerals of
conversation ; they do not take in any-
thing for their own use, but merely to pass
it to another.
Life, at the greatest and:best, to but a fro
ward child that must be humored and coax-
ed a little till it falls asleep, and then all
the Dare is over,
Wrongdoing is a road that may open
fair, but it leads to trouble and danger,
Well-defng, however rough and thorny at
first, surely leads to pleasant planes.
Good manners is the art of making these
people easy with whom we converse ; who-
ever makes the fewest peraens uneasy, is
the beet bred man in company,
A wise man's heart is like a broad hearth
that keeps the coals (Itis passions) from
burning the house, Good deeds in thin life
are coals raked up In embers, to make a fire
next day,
The chief element In true growth is
growth in love , no man is making perman-
ent growth in character, who le not Brew-
ing in sympathy, fn pity, in helpfulness, in
all that oonneote him with hie fellowmen.
The world is governed by three things
dem, authority and appearance, Wee
for thoughtful people, authority for
people, and appearance,' for the great
uperficlal people who can look only
e.
ed to think that the Christ -
lets not in great acts, sub -
r inapiring wards. It
it of acts than sots,
Beds than deeds,
than words,
not long bo
and nothing
habiting it
,rewarded
own,
orgy.
of
t
E ALAR..
Don't Check Pere irat o l'ud enl.
A Beaton merchant, to '' bonding a hand"
on board one of his, ships ogs windy day,
fouhimself at aof an hand. a
half,nd prettyy' well exhaustethendd and perapiourr
inp
. He eat down wto reat, ,engaging
y n re, and ,.
in conversation, time pparsed teeter than he
was aware of, Inttem to riee
a pting , he
found that he was unable to do to without
asuistanoe, tie was taken home and put to
bed, where he remained two years, and for
e long time afterward could only hobble
about with the aid of a oratob, Less ex•
immures than this haveresultod !n Ioilamma-
tion of the lunge*" pneumonia "--ending
in death. Let parents explain to their all,
dren, the danger which attends the opting
off too quiokly after exercise, and the im,
portanoe of not standing in a draught of air
after exerolee, or cf sitting at an open win
dow or door, or pulling off any garment,
oven theina hatbeaetr, bonnet, or going in bathing,
while
;Deep As a Medicine.
The ory for rest has always bran louder
than the ory for food, not that it le more
important,- but it is of nen harder to obtain.
The beat rest comes from eoucd sleep. Of
two men or women, otherwiao equal, the
one who sleeps the beat wilt be the most
moral, healthy, and elft deux. Sleepwiil do
much to mire irritabiliey et temper, peevish.
noes, and uneasineee. It will restore to vigor
an overworked brain, It will build up and
make strong a weary body, It will cure a
headache. Indeed, we might make a long
list of nervous and other maladies that sleep
will ours.
The oure of eleepleesneee reoires,a clean,
good bed,au ioient exercise to produce wea-
nineee, pleasant occupation, geed air, and
not too warm a room, a clear conscience,.
and avoidanoe of stimulants and ,narcotics.
For those who are overworked, haggard,
and nervous, who pass sleeplaee nightswe
reoommend, tee adoption of stroll ' habits a
Shan secure sleep ; otherwiee, life will ,be
short, and what there is of jt, sadly imper-
teot,
THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION.
The Natural History Court.
The western transept of the Central Gal-
lery is devoted almost exoluetvely to Natural
History specimens of all kinds and from all
parte of the Dominion. The most oenaple-
uoua feature is naturally the commanding
game trophy occupying the centre. This
trophy is octagonal in shape, though of mos
a formation as to allow of ooneiderable
width for display on the north, south, east,
and west sides. Upon the main part of the
structure are tastefully e
t 1grouped aoimene
of animals and heads motly rom their hab-
itat, Manitoba and the North West Terri-
tories. The greater portion of these have
been collected by Mr. J. H Hubbard, Pres-
ident of the Manitoba Gun Club, in bis
North Weetern wanderings, and their varie-
ty and excellence as welt as their judicious
arrangement do him great credit.
Manitoba and the North-West may now
be said to form the only hunting field left
undieturbed in North America, for there Is
nothing of the kind remaining in the United
States. Thus on the trophy, in the centre
of the east side, may be found an Immense
moose measuring as mach as eighteen hands
three Inoheein height, set up with great
faithfulness to nature, while of moose heads
there are as many as seventeen, one of them
measuring five feet three ,inohes from horn
to horn Near at hand will be seen an ex-
cellent head of a young oariboo ; also a head
of the blaok-tail deer se well as a very large
elk from Lske Winnipeg, On one of the
smaller sides of the trophy a fine elk head
from Lake Manitoba will be noticed, while
other good epeeimens of elk heads are from
the same part. Ail these species of game
are quite abundant en the shores of Lake
Manitoba, and Lake Winnipeg, and through
Keewatin. On the went shores ef Lake
Manitoba the elk—or wapiti, as it is at times,
though not quite oorreotly, called—is'more
abundant than in any portion of the North-
West, Norway Home, Nelson River, 1e as
yet untouched—hae, in fact, eeen no hunter's
foeteteps. Io the Peace River dietrlot this
oleos of large game Is also very abundant.
The region is indeed unexplored, known
only by the Hudson Bay officers and Stobart,
Eden & Co's. representatives, who with the
Indiana constitute the inhabitants, Eagle
Pass, in the Gold R lenge, is a favorite resort
for the oariboo. Of the kuff;,le, some excel.
lentlyeet heads are shown on all sides of
the trophy, This famed reminder of former
days is now of course extinot, and eporte•
men must not to the North-West In an-
ticipation of such excellent sport as it would
afford, union indeed it be true as reported
that it may still be found in the Peace River
conntry. The only herd known to exist is
now under the careful guardianohip of the
governor of the Penetentlary at Stoney
Mountain, Hore they roam en the open
prairie, unworried by sportsmen and their
every want provided. The bufiffele heads
shown by Mr. Hubbard on the trophy are
from Wood Mountain and Mediofne; Hat,
Above the entrance on the north aide of the
ophy is another valuable buffalo head, lent
ars. Peooak & Cs,, formerly of Lon -
now of Seurat, the animal having
y Mr. Pocock himself., But in
riots the last of the buffalos` has
The sole remaining link with
collection of bleached bones
prairie, and even these
fate of the buffalo it -
hand of commercial
ubbard shows a
itoba, as well
already mon-
of Canada
en of the
LATB DQMtNIQN NEWS.
A girl baby was. b Ira le Kuowltou, Que.,
recently with four (teeth,
Timber . wolves have been leen In the
neighbourhood
of the Little Saikatohewan,
The Hudson Boy Conran have aid,
eohool taxes at Edmonton amounting to
$966.
Twelve Montreal 'mitten have been ar-
rested for loiterlog in Si. Jennie' and Notre
Dame streets,
The contract ham been let for the -ere°.
tion of a eohool•houee In the Saskatchewan
Roman Catholle Soloed dletriot,
Mrs. Donald Mo'Ntvon, of Harrieton while
nutting grass with `a atokle, completely sev-
ered her forefinger midway between the first
and second j ,rats,
Peterboro' town doge have beentagged,
and farmera and other vieitore from the
country are warned not to, bring their doge
with there h m except they are anxious for a
parting."
The Peterboro' Review has been favoured
with a poem over a yard long.The anther,
with oonnmendeble prudence, d not sena
hie name with the munueoript. His obita-
ary ,will, therefore, not apnea at present.
Reports from the lootelity of the Keppel
tragedy ase not satisfaotory. Hen roosts
are being robbed by wholesale. Farmers
are concerned for the safety of the property,
and many suspioioua characters bleat the
neighourhood.
A brutal fight in which twelve men were
engaged took place;; in Wed Brantford eine
night recently, One man was so badly in-
jured that at was an hour' before he could
be restored to oonsolouanees, and another
was terribly punlehed, The pollee are In.
veatigeting,
Two hunters have just sold their eying
oatoh of fur at Edmonton for $600, They
had 132 beaver, 12 lynx, 1 bear, and other
furs, The same men made 'an excellent
bunt laat fall, killing 100 beare, 19 moose,
and other animal', the fur and hides of
whioh eheylast this spring by the river rim-
ing and Seeding their dug -oat',
The sum of $250 has just been sent from
Winnipeg to aid three of the poorest fami-
lies of Bataan Mennonities, numbering 32
peraens, to make their way from Turkestan,
Anis, to Southern. European Russia. On
their arrival there a . further sum will be
sent to bring them atfaras Hamburg, Geri
many, and it is hoped that arrangements
will then be made to bring them on Man-
itoba,
Dr. Lloyd, of Boboaygeon, who has been
missing since 'set spring, la ; found to have
been drowned, as was enspeoted. His body
was found floating in shallow water, face
down and a small, white -handled knife
whioh he bad carried for some time, hung-
ing around his neck by a string, had got
tossed
around, and was lying on his book.
The remains were interred beside those of
hie wife.
A oat belonging to Mr. W. Johnston, of
the Lake Shore head, near Oakville, has
jot acoompllehed a long walk. When mov-
ing from hie farm near Omagh last spring,
Mr. Johnston also moved his oat enolosed in
a buoket, oovered with a cloth, a distance
of eight miles. The oat teems, however,
not to have appreciated its new home, and
the other day was found at thepheee whence
It had been removed,
The Mounted Police at Battleford have
arrested Breaking -through -the icon on sus-
picion of being a runner from the Smith,
He had recently oome from the Blackfoot
Country, and was prowling around the re-
serves in a suspicious manner. This is the
same Indian for whose arrest General Mid-
dleton received orders at the time of the
surrender' of Poundmaker and his following,
and who was released at Regina without
aentenoe.
Sufferings in an Open $oat Elea,
The Royal Mall steamer Klneceriio, which
has arrived in the Mersey from the West
Coast of A'rloa, rescued at sea, in an open
boat, two men who had been eight days
without fend or water, The boat had ori-
ginally four occupants, but two of them died
of their sufferings before the Kinsembe fell
in with the boat, When the Kinsembe was
near old Cslabar an objeot wan descried in
the distance. It appeared to be a canoe,
but no occupants were visible, Fer fear
there eheuld be anybody in the tiny Draft,
Capt. Liveraidge ordered the signal whistle
to be blown. In a moment or two there
slowly rose from the bottom of the boat the
ferm of a man.
The ateamer's coune was then altered,
and on coming up to the canoe it was found
to contain two natives, one poor fellow ly-
ing belplesely at the bottom of the boat.
The two men were then helped on board,
and the doctor of the steamer was soon in
attendance on them, When they had suf-
fiolently recovered they told a pitiful tale
of suffering and death. They were fugitives
from Prince's Island, fleeing from the yoke of
their Portuguese masters. They were Kreo-
boys and had gone to Prinoe'm Island many
years ago to work on the plantation for
about a year, When their period of agree-
ment was up, they said, they were net per-
mitted to leave the island.
They got clear of the island, but on the
third day a tornado was encountered and the
beat filled with water, The mon had then
to get out of the boat to bail the water,
What little stook of fresh water they had
was spoiled, and oome of the paddles of the
canoe were also loot, Day after day passed
without bringing any rescue until the
eleventh day of their departure from the
island. Taey had then been "about eight
days without food or water, excepting some
salt water, whioh only made their thirst
more Intones,
"My dear," he said, "what le the
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