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You remember that fellow, Brüs?" Of course Mr. The conversation drifted into chat about pet birds, until some of the restless young people proposed a rowing match around the island, and out of that project sprang another. "I should like," said Fred, "to take the little lady of the isle around it in the Mermaid first. She really ought to be the first to circumnavigate Havnholme.
"Then I go off with your boat, and you remain prisoned on Havnholme." "You could be severely punished if you did so." "If you are mean enough to tell, and bring grown people and lawyers into the business," retorted Yaspard. "I see no harm in taking the letter to Fred," said Tom then. Tom strongly objected to telling tales.
Garson saved me, uncle dear," sobbed Signy. "He found me on Havnholme; he is so good." "Havnholme!" the old man muttered, and something like an electric shock went through him at that word. The change in his expression was not lost on Fred.
I have not been able to describe Yaspard's grief when he lost sight of the Osprey, and I am less able to describe his joy upon seeing her floating snug against the crags which were the favourite landing-place on Havnholme.
Holtum said aside to the minister that nothing more satisfactory had he ever witnessed than the sailing round Havnholme of those two men together, with so sweet a bond between them as fair little Signy.
He whistled at his task, and was infinitely pleased with his own thoughts, which ran something like this: "Oh yes! I'll make it work. I'll turn this old feud into a rare old lark, I will. How nicely it all fits in for to-morrow the Harrison boys to go with the letter in my boat, and the Manse boys spending the night on Havnholme! What times those boys have, to be sure.
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