Produced by Al Haines. WHITE WINGS: A Yachting Romance. BY *WILLIAM BLACK,* AUTHOR OF "THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON," "GREEN PASTURES AND PICCADILLY," ETC. _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOL. II. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1880. _The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved._ LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR. BREAD STREET HILL. *CONTENTS.* CHAPTER I. VILLANY ABROAD CHAPTER II. AN ULTIMATUM CHAPTER III. THE NEW SUITOR CHAPTER IV. CHASING A THUNDERSTORM CHAPTER V. CHASING SEALS CHAPTER VI. "UNCERTAIN, COY, AND HARD TO PLEASE" CHAPTER VII. SECRET SCHEMES CHAPTER VIII. BEFORE BREAKFAST CHAPTER IX. A PROTECTOR CHAPTER X. "MARY, MARY!" CHAPTER XI. AN UNSPOKEN APPEAL CHAPTER XII. HIS LORDSHIP CHAPTER XIII. THE LAIRD’S PLANS CHAPTER XIV. A SUNDAY IN FAR SOLITUDES CHAPTER XV. HIDDEN SPRINGS *WHITE WINGS:* *A Yachting Romance.* *CHAPTER I.* *VILLANY ABROAD.* It is near mid-day; two late people are sitting at breakfast; the skylight overhead has been lifted, and the cool sea-air fills the saloon. "Dead calm again," says Angus Sutherland, for he can see the rose-red ensign hanging limp from the mizen-mast, a blaze of colour against the still blue. There is no doubt that the _White Dove_ is quite motionless; and that a perfect silence reigns around her. That is why we can hear so distinctly—through the open skylight—the gentle footsteps of two people who are pacing up and down the deck, and the soft voice of one of them as she speaks to her friend. What is all this wild enthusiasm about, then? "It is the noblest profession in the world!" we can hear so much as she passes the skylight. "One profession lives by fomenting quarrels; and another studies the art of killing in every form; but this one lives only to heal—only to relieve the suffering and help the miserable. That is the profession I should belong to, if I were a man!"