His Other Wife: A Novel — page 240: what you’re looking at

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232 A LAMB AND .A WOLF. ‘Oh, it #s/ it zs a sail, and it’s growing bigger, just ever so little bigger, I think !” The sailor now made his observation, and it sustained Faith’s decision that there was a sail in sight. ‘‘You're right, by Neptune !” And he struck his horny hand upon his knee as he said it. _€ Mr, Conway, do you think it will come this way ?” There was a piteous fearfulness in the low, sweet tone, and a wistful pain in the lovely, patient eyes that made the old man’s heart ache. He touched her on the shoulder with one of his fingers, and, in the manner of one making a very mysterious an- nouncement, said: ‘‘Well, if it shouldn’t come this way, dearie, we can go that way, and head her off. I'll soon tell you what her course is.” The girl sat almost breathless, her eyes fixed—not upon the phantom sail, but on the oracle who watched it through the lenses of a powerful sea-glass. After a space that seemtd very long to poor Faith, the mate said, slowly : ‘«She’s running as fast as wind and steam can send her, due south. SBy putting on all our sail, and scudding be- fore this westerly wind, we can cut her off at some point before midnight. — It will set us considerably more out of our course, but that’s a small matter compared with put- AL = Eomicbooks:¢o