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Updated: May 18, 2025

She hurried, restored to sanity by the sounds and the thought of her father. Horror and self-blame were active in her mind not from the fear of discovery; but from shame at having for so long deserted him. "Oh, hurry!" Jenny whispered, as Keith slipped over the side of the yacht into the waiting dinghy. There was a silence, and presently the heavy cludder of oars against the boat's side. "Jenny!

Frank Swinnerton - Nocturne