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But I hope no need for this will come. Yonder is our course, where she heads now, and soon you will be free from me. You have wrecked me. Now I am derelict, from this time on. Good-by." I heard footfalls above. "Mrs. Daniver's compliments to Captain Black Bart," saluted L'Olonnois, "an' would he send my Auntie Helena back, because she's offle sick."
Daniver's voice as she put out her head at the edge of the tarpaulin. "I thought you said all the ninety-three was gone," said she with some interest, as it appeared to me. "No, we only had the last bottle of that case at luncheon, Mrs. Daniver," said I. "There are yet other cases out yonder." "It's a bad night for neuralgia," said she complainingly. "It is, madam.
"Gee!" said he, as he dropped, wet and out of breath, into the cabin; and "Gee!" remarked a very pale L'Olonnois in return, gamely as he could. And Mrs. Daniver's moans went rhythmic with the pound of the keel on the shoal. "What shall we do?" asked Helena at last calmly. "Auntie is very sick. I am beginning to fear for her, it is such a bad attack.
Richard Barrière to-morrow?" I inquired of the lighthouse keeper. "Oui, oui, certain', assurement, wit' plaisir, Monsieur," he replied. So I handed him the little packet. It chanced that my eye caught sight of one of the two letters Mrs. Daniver had handed me. The address was not in Mrs. Daniver's handwriting, but one that I knew very well.
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