She shook her head. "Better that they should regard you as what you really are--an English sailor. Suppose they persuaded themselves that you could raise and sell winds, they might determine to test you, and imprison, even torture you in the belief you were stubborn and would not do their bidding; or, if they came to consider you a wizard, they might think your presence in the ship unlucky, and, being half-savages, with demons for souls, as I believe, and with instincts belonging to a time when the world was brutal and human life held in no account--there is no imagining how they would serve you." "Oh, Imogene!" cried I, "you are my good angel----" "A true sweetheart must ever be that to the boy she loves," she whispered, looking down and softly blushing. "You are my true sweetheart, Imogene! And how faithfully you are able to guide me through the marvellous experience we are both passing through, I know by the words you have just uttered," and I went on to tell her how Van Vogelaar had under his breath talked as if to himself of my being a curse in the ship. As I said this, Prins came to the cabin door, and stood looking in. Perceiving him, Imogene rose and saying quietly, "He has perhaps been sent to report if we are together; go you on deck, dearest; I will join you, presently," went to her berth. END OF VOLUME II. PRINTED BY TILLOTSON AND SON, MAWDSLEY STREET BOLTON Transcriber's Notes Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Inconsistent hyphenation fixed. P. 28: stancheons -> stanchions. P. 33: schellings -> schillings. P. 60: silival -> salival. P. 63: rotteness -> rottenness. P. 109: least my thoughtlessness -> lest my thoughtlessness. P. 197: mani-hued dinginess -> many-hued dinginess. P. 227: Voeglaar -> Vogelaar. P. 248: assasinated -> assassinated. P. 249: solemly -> solemnly. End of Project Gutenberg's The Death Ship, Vol. II (of 3), by W. Clark Russell