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Neither you nor my friend Ellice shall leave the ship with my permission. But don't let us waste time talking. Come, Summers and Mizzle, you are well enough to join, and Meetuck, you must be our guide; look alive and get yourselves ready." In less than half an hour the rescue party were equipped and on their way over the floes.
And each time he got the car out a pair of black eyes watched him with smouldering anger and passion and jealousy. A pair of small hands were clenched tightly, a girl's heart was aching and throbbing with love and hate and undisciplined passions, as though it must break. But he did not see, though Constance did, and she felt troubled and anxious. She had understood for long how it was with Ellice.
We must pass it all over, and also the account of the few days that followed, during which sundry walruses were captured, and return to the Dolphin, to which Captain Ellice had been conveyed on the sledge, carefully wrapped up in deer-skins, and tended by Fred.
Many a time have I seen a ship's crew strain and heave on warps and cables for hours together, and only gain a yard by all their efforts; but many a time, also, have I seen a single yard of headway save a ship from destruction." "True," rejoined Captain Ellice; "I have seen a little of it myself.
"True, O'Riley, I did." "Faix, then, it's my opinion that yon bears is a mirage, an' the sooner we git out o' their way the better." A smothered laugh greeted this solution of the difficulty. "I think I can give a better explanation begging your pardon, O'Riley," said Captain Ellice, who had hitherto looked on with a sly smile.
Nor can I refrain from emphasizing in this rapid survey the highly significant fact that in over sixty territories, constituting more than a half of the total number of virgin territories opened to the Faith, since the inauguration of the World Spiritual Crusade, the number of those who have espoused the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh and enlisted under His banner has surpassed the number originally anticipated and regarded as a minimum for the opening of these territories; that in a considerable proportion of them the Bahá’í membership has far exceeded the number required for the formation of local Assemblies; that in Gambia as many as three hundred, and in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as many as five hundred, have been and are being enrolled beneath His standard; and that in Uganda alone, which holds the palm of victory, the number of registered believers has exceeded one thousand.
That Joan Meredyth did not love John Everard no one understood more clearly than Ellice Brand. She had watched them when they were together, she had watched the girl apart; and the watcher's body might be that of a child, but her eyes were the eyes of a woman, as was her heart too. "Why should she take him from me?" she asked herself, and all her being rose in passionate revolt and resentment.
"We must do it without a mistake this time," said Fred Ellice, opening his book and calling upon Grim to begin. "'Tis cold," began Grim. "Stop, you're wrong." "Oh, so I am!" cried Grim, slapping his thigh; "I'll begin again."
In despair they returned to pass the night in it, and spreading their frozen sleeping-bags on the snow, they lay down, silent and supperless, to rest till morning. Unexpected arrivals The rescue party Lost and found Return to the ship. The sixth night after the hunting-party had left the ship, Grim and Fred Ellice suddenly made their appearance on board.
Later in the afternoon Johnny would drive the car over for her and take her back. Connie, having attended carefully to her toilet, descended to the waiting pony-trap, and found, to her surprise and a little to her annoyance, that Ellice was already seated in the little vehicle. "Ellice, dear, I am sorry, but " "You don't want to take me, Connie; but, all the same, I am going. I want to see her!"
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