His Other Wife: A Novel — page 220: what you’re looking at

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212 MAN TO MAN. and their ‘‘wiutual participation in the perils and prizes of - the cutter.” This last clause formed one of the articles of agreement sworn to and signed by each of them when their co-partnership was created. | Perhaps Senor Valasco had forgotten. this passage when he weighed anchor and sailed away from the creole, bear- ing off Faith Hilary. It happened in this wise: When the weather was fair, or the Madcap at anchor, the captain and the mate took it by turns to seek repose in their respective state-rooms, one of which was now devoted to the use of their fair passenger. — On the morning after their arrival in the island harbor, it was the mate’s turn to sleep, and it was during his pro- found slumbers that Vernois set out for the island. No sooner had the boat bearing the creole disappeared around the headland beyond which lay the village, than Captain Valasco summoned the Malay, and, with his as- sistance, weighed anchor and hoisted sail before a favoring wind. Faith, who had not left her state-room since breakfast, but lay in her berth reading a book, concluded that Vernois had returned from his inspection of the island, and had decided it was safest for them to proceed with the cruisers on their way. Therefore the motion of the ship gave her no other concern than a feeling of disquietude at finding herself condemned ‘to a protracted season of this dismal imprisonment. Not the most remote suspicion of (E(@) Eomicbooks.