Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 111: what you’re looking at

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OCTAVIA’S PRIDE. 101 on, but she looked up into the sky with a trustful, happy glance. “<T will do my va Doctor Morley,” murmured she. And then she saw a boat, rocking with the waves, only a little beyond. It was but a moment’s work to reach it, cast off, and push out from shore. ; What strength there was in her arms! -What_ brave courage and resolution in her heart. Farther and farther from the shore, and the shouting and bustle—away from the pursuing foe! Away out in the cove, clear against the sky, loomed up the graceful figure of aship. It was Jane West’s goal of desire. She said to herself she would reach it, shutting those even teeth of hers together savagely, if she was obliged to leap into Ane water and swim to it. But the pursuers were behind. ‘They also had found a boat, and two pairs of strong arms propelled the oars. CHAPTER X. THE LIVELY JANE. ; The Sea Foam rather failed of her accustomed good for- tune. She had head winds, and was twice becalmed. Captain Lo mentally accused himself of bringing a Jonah conscience with him, and was gloomily prepared for any- thing disastrous. He was a thoroughly miserable man, was Captain Lo Leyard, so unlike his usual hearty, generous, cheery self, that it was no wonder the crew began to whisper from one to another that the skipper was bewitched. Singularly enough, he found his chief consolation in the society of the chief object of his disquiet. Aside from a certain morbid compassion, Captain Lo had learned to love the youthful GOmMIcbDoo €o