"Come and I'll show you--or will you take us along in the boat? It's good four miles over that way." "Boat'll be easiest. Sand's heavy walking. How long can we count on this weather?" "Oh, for a week at least. It's our best time of year." "You will take us home?" asked Avice eagerly, when they had climbed into the boat and were swinging along parallel to the shore, the children staring in a vast silence and with rounded eyes at the bearded sailor-men and their amazing ways. "As far as our service permits, madame, we will do anything and everything you wish. We return to Halifax in Nova Scotia, but once there you will have no difficulties." "That is where we want to go," said Wulfrey.... "Better keep out a bit here. There are ridges below there.... Now if you will turn in." "What's that? A ship?" asked the tall man, and all eyes shot round to the bare poles of the 'Jane and Mary' snowing over the sandhills. "A schooner, land-locked in a lagoon. That was our first home. Now we live ashore." "And you've been all alone all that time?" "We had one companion, the mate of the ship.... He died four years ago. Since then none have come but the dead.... We can get in here, I think." The boat ran softly up the beach again, the sailors carried out Avice and the children, and they all struck up through the sandhills to the house. THE END PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. 1917. WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR GOD'S PRISONER RISING FORTUNES OUR LADY OF DELIVERANCE A PRINCESS OF VASCOVY JOHN OF GERISAU UNDER THE IRON FLAIL BONDMAN FREE MR. JOSEPH SCORER BARBE OF GRAND BAYOU A WEAVER OF WEBS HEARTS IN EXILE THE GATE OF THE DESERT WHITE FIRE GIANT CIRCUMSTANCE PROFIT AND LOSS THE LONG ROAD CARETTE OF SARK PEARL OF PEARL ISLAND THE SONG OF HYACINTH MY LADY OF SHADOWS GREAT-HEART GILLIAN A MAID OF THE SILVER SEA LAURISTONS THE COIL OF CARNE THEIR HIGH ADVENTURE QUEEN OF THE GUARDED MOUNTS MR. CHERRY THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN ROSE MARY ALL-ALONE RED WRATH BEES IN AMBER (VERSE). 10th edition.