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Marston, that she always said you were not dead, although when month after month passed by, and a most careful search had been made of all the islands within a radius of six hundred miles, and no trace of the Lupetea was found, Mr. Raymond himself lost all hope." "How long was it before Mr. Raymond knew of what had occurred on board that night off Lotofanga?" she asked. "Mrs.
Marston's especial protégé and wants to see the great City of Apia; item, baskets and baskets and baskets of roasted fowls, mangoes, pineapples and other things which are for the use of the captain, officers, crew and passengers of the Lupetea." Villari laughed. "There will be plenty of room, Mrs. Raymond." An hour or so later he bade them all good-night, and went on board.
As the first note of the great grey pigeon sounded the dawn, the trader's boat sailed softly up to the Salua beach, and old Lupetea rose, and, bidding the crew good-bye, and calling down blessings on the head of the good and clever white man, as she rubbed his and the girl's noses against her own, she grasped her Basket of Bread-fruit and went ashore.
Raymond, who said she was glad to see him looking so well, and wished him prosperity with the Lupetea. The dinner passed off very well. Villari made inquiries as to the whereabouts of the Esmeralda, and Mrs.
Villari at once went on shore, found his passengers ready to embark, and in half an hour they were all on board and the Lupetea was spinning along the southern shore of Upolu at a great rate, for the wind was fresh and the sea very smooth.
"Will you do me the honour of allowing me to take you and Mrs. Marston to Apia in the Lupetea? I shall be delighted." "It is very kind of you, Captain Villari," said the planter's wife with a smile, as she emphasised the word "captain," "but when will you be sailing?" The Italian considered a moment. "I have some cargo for Manono, and some for the German trader at Paulaelae.
"Give them here to me," said the trader, and he put the basket in the stern out of the way. Bullets, they said, if fired in plenty, always hit something, and the sea was fairly smooth outside the reef. And old Lupetea grasped his hand and muttered in his ear, "For the sake of this my little daughter go outside. See, now, I am old, and to lie when so near death as I am is foolish.
For twelve hours the Lupetea ran swiftly before a rapidly increasing sea, and by night time Lilo was so exhausted in trying to keep her from broaching to, that Serena came to his assistance. Neither he nor Mrs.
Marston, when he took those three blue lights ashore from the wreck of the Lupetea, that they might come in useful some night " and then he uttered a yell of delight as a great rocket shot high up in air and burst; the ship had seen the blue light and was answering it! "Hurrah! she sees the blue light!" he cried, and then with voice and gesture he urged his crew to greater exertions.
Then he went on to say that Raymond would be interested to learn that he had bought a small schooner of 100 tons called the Lupetea, on easy terms of payment, and that he hoped to make a great deal of money by running her in the inter-island trade. "I was only enabled to do this through Mrs.
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