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Their old grandmother waded out into the sea up to her neck and stayed there, and we could hear her howling long after we had got on board the steamer. When we got into Ratu Lala's boat at Vuna there was another very affecting farewell.
The grass had frozen, and before we reached a cache of oats I had relied on, most of our horses perished; we arrived at Nome too late for the last steamer of the year. That is how I came to winter there, and why a letter Weatherbee had written in October was so long finding me.
"No," he said, "I cannot think of the future." She put up her hand with a gesture of appeal. The bell of the steamer sounded out sharply upon the air. "No," she said. "We must say good-by with no reservations, no hopes, even with no prayers. It is simply and absolutely good-by. And oh!" she added, her voice breaking a little, "I do so hope for your happiness, though I must not share it."
No regular steamer was in port, but the "Pallas" was seen at anchor out in the roadstead. Sedgwick engaged a boat, and with Jordan pulled out to the steamer. McGregor was delighted at their coming, took them on board and said: "Now, boys, we will have a night of it." But Sedgwick said: "First, Captain, I want your surgeon to look at Jordan's arm." "Why, of course," said McGregor.
"I'm going to help the boys finish their job. Ethan told me they had stopped the leak, and it only remained to pump out the steamer. I am going to do this job; and I have men enough to finish it in a couple of hours." "I should think you had," added Mrs. Wilford. "I have gathered together all the men I could find. Don't say a word to the boys, if you please. I intend to surprise them.
Undoubtedly I was pining for a lazy tour of the Continent. The thought decided me. I should book my passage on the steamer that sailed the Saturday of the following week.
There is very little chance of any criminal escaping when they once get on his track, so Mr. Hobson has told me. If he is on this steamer he must run another gauntlet in New York, even if he is among the emigrants. You know we have over a thousand on board. If he is not aboard they will track him down. Dreadful, isn't it?"
"Yes, four thousand miles; but it will be easy enough for us when we are on a steamer." "The Yukon is closed for eight months or more each year." "We don't intend to go down it when it's closed, for I didn't bring skates along, and I don't know how to skate, anyway."
But he is reluctantly prepared to part with me, and has consented to my return in a few days' time, to England, by the North German Lloyd steamer. He has ordered the sea voyage as a finishing touch to my cure. Good, deluded man, he thinks that it is his fortuitous science that has dragged me out of the Valley of the Shadow and set me in the Garden of Life. Good, deluded man!
I trust, that every time this steamer meets with a little accident, it will be at this time of the year and when I am on my way to England." "You seem to have friends everywhere," Norgate observed, as he lit a cigar. "Young ladies, yes," Selingman admitted. "It chanced that they were both well-known to me. But who else?" Norgate made no reply. He felt that his companion was watching him.
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