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"Winnie darling Winnie after her mother," said the hermit with deep pathos in his tone. A feeling of disappointment came over our hero. Winnie bore not the most distant resemblance to Kathleen! "Did you ever, during your search," asked Nigel slowly, "visit the Cocos-Keeling Islands?" "Never. They are too far from where the attack on us was made."
"Now, Kathy, you must let me pull," said Nigel, pushing out the sculls, "for although the captain tells me you are very good at rowing, it would never do for a man, you know, to sit lazily down and let himself be rowed by a girl." "Very well," said Kathy, with a quiet and most contented smile, for she had not yet reached the self-conscious age at least, as ages go in the Cocos-Keeling Islands!
"I did not say salt water, lad, I said bilge a fathom o' bilge water," interrupted the captain, who, although secretly rejoiced at the fact of his son having fallen over head and ears in love with the pretty little Cocos-Keeling islander, deemed it his duty, nevertheless, as a sternly upright parent, to make quite sure that the love was mutual as well as deep before giving his consent to anything like courtship.
"Now, Kathy, you must let me pull," said Nigel, pushing out the sculls, "for although the captain tells me you are very good at rowing, it would never do for a man, you know, to sit lazily down and let himself be rowed by a girl." "Very well," said Kathy, with a quiet and most contented smile, for she had not yet reached the self-conscious age at least, as ages go in the Cocos-Keeling Islands!
There is a friend there who has just told me he met you on the Cocos-Keeling Island, Nigel Roy; you start, Winnie?" "Y-yes, father. I am so surprised, for it is his father who sails this ship! And I cannot imagine how he or you came on board."
Some of the hardy old seaman's listeners smiled somewhat incredulously at the "two or three thousand," but nevertheless he was not only not exaggerating, but might have said five or six thousand. The Christmas Island to which he referred must not be mistaken for the island of the same name in the Indian Ocean the Cocos-Keeling group.
At this point both artists had become so engrossed in their occupation that they ceased to converse, and for a considerable time profound silence reigned at least on their part, though not as regarded others, for every now and then the faint sound of laughter came floating over the tranquil lagoon from that part of the coral strand where Captain Roy was still tickling the fancies and expanding the imaginations and harrowing or soothing the feelings of the Cocos-Keeling juveniles.
At this point both artists had become so engrossed in their occupation that they ceased to converse, and for a considerable time profound silence reigned at least on their part, though not as regarded others, for every now and then the faint sound of laughter came floating over the tranquil lagoon from that part of the coral strand where Captain Roy was still tickling the fancies and expanding the imaginations and harrowing or soothing the feelings of the Cocos-Keeling juveniles.
There is a friend there who has just told me he met you on the Cocos-Keeling Island, Nigel Roy; you start, Winnie?" "Y yes, father. I am so surprised, for it is his father who sails this ship! And I cannot imagine how he or you came on board."
"Winnie darling Winnie after her mother," said the hermit with deep pathos in his tone. A feeling of disappointment came over our hero. Winnie bore not the most distant resemblance to Kathleen! "Did you ever, during your search," asked Nigel slowly, "visit the Cocos-Keeling Islands?" "Never. They are too far from where the attack on us was made."
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