His Other Wife: A Novel — page 239: what you’re looking at

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A LAMB AND A WOLF, | 231 robe had served to fill up the long days very pleasantly. Looking up from her work across the interminable waste of sun-bathed waters, she fancied that her gaze caught the glancing of a sail far out to the westward. She strained her eyes eagerly, and the vision seemed to - become more definite. Her heart gave a great throb of hope. oe : The mate had suggested the idea that they might fall in with a steamship that could take her aboard before the little cutter could reach a port. This thought had entirely overshadowed his previous hint of a pirate ship. ‘‘Mr. Conway! Mr. Conway!” called the girl, in wild excitement, to the mate, who was at the other end of the vessel. ‘‘ Yes, miss, I’m here.” ‘‘Only comevand take a look out this way, for I do be- lieve it is a sail that I see, and it must belong to a big ship, or I could never see it so far.” ‘‘TDo believe you're right,” says the mate, peering over the little hand she pointed in the direction of a shadowy white speck against the golden background of thehorizon. ‘Wait a bit till I fetch the glass.” When he returned he said: ‘‘Your eyes are younger mine; take a look through that, and then let’s hear what you see.” | As he spoke he arranged the telescope for her, and pres- ently she exclaimed, with delight: Comichoo cS. (E(@) =|