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Updated: June 1, 2025
There was some sort of constraint over them, and they reached the summit of the ascent without having exchanged a word. When they stood on the Hoe, where the old Eddystone lighthouse is now erected, Seymour Michael turned and looked out over the bay where the ships lay at anchor. "The good old Mahanaddy," he said, "the finest ship I have ever sailed in."
Some few of the Mahanaddy passengers have remarked that Mark Ruthine invariably locks his cabin-door whenever he leaves the little den that serves him for surgery and home. This is the outward sign of an inward unforgotten sore. This, by the way, is not a moral tale. Virtue does not triumph, nor will vice be crushed.
Somewhere between Ismailia and the Gate of Tears, Love came on board the Mahanaddy a sorry pilot and took charge of Manly Fenn and the girl who was going out to marry her old playmate. It was a serious matter from the first like a fever that takes a man of middle age who has never been ill before.
He was realising that life is, after all, a sorry thing of chance, and that all his world might be hanging at that moment on the word of an untrustworthy man. Before morning he had determined to telegraph from Malta to Seymour Michael to meet him at Plymouth on the arrival of the Mahanaddy at that port. And yet God has not said a word.
The little Dutch lighthouse at Galle was duly sighted, and the Mahanaddy was in the Bay of Bengal. The last dinner was duly consumed, and the usual speech made by the usual self-assertive old civilian. And, for the last time, the Mahanaddy passengers said good night to each other, seeking their cabins with a pleasant sense of anticipation. The next day would bring the sequel.
He suspected, shrewdly enough, that Norah was the eldest of a large family one less to feed and clothe. An old story. As the great ship glided gently away from the quay in those days the Mahanaddy loaded at Southampton he went and stood beside Norah Hood.
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