His Other Wife: A Novel — page 296: what you’re looking at

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288 FAITH’S DELIVERANCE. Queen Guinevere. The mate of the Madcap took it upon himself to tell how he had picked up a crowned girl off the Florida coast, and by contrary winds been driven hither and thither, unable to land her. Of her companion, and every other unfortunate inci- dent connected with her disaster, he kept secretly silent, but so presented her case that she was at once received aboard the ship with the utmost sympathy and cordiality expressed by the numerous passengers. Belore parting with his fair charge, the old sailor advised her to tell no more than he had related in her presence, and to put herself confidently under the care of Captain Desmond, who would feel in duty bound to arrange for her safe return to her friends. There were tears of deepest gratitude in the bright eyes of the poor little wanderer, as she pressed the horny hand of the old sailor to her lips, and breathed a prayer upon it that Heaven would bless and protect him and his. = Graff Conway bent over the sweet bowed head, and whispered, while the muscles of his hard old face twitched painfully : ‘“My dear, Graff Conway’s been a wicked old devil in his time, and little deserves the honor of befriending an angel like yourself; but if God spares him yet a little while to make atonement, neither man nor devil shall ever make him do another act that he'd be ashamed for you to see.” | As for Morad, the Malay, he stood apart upon the little EComicbooks.¢o 3