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"For eighteen months, or two years, or more, if " "If " "If you will let me, and Phina will wait for me." "Wait for you! An intended who intends until he gets away!" exclaimed William W. Kolderup. "You must let Godfrey go," pleaded Phina; "I have thought it carefully over. I am young, but really Godfrey is younger. Travel will age him, and I do not think it will change his taste!
The lady raised her two hands, held them suspended for an instant above the keys as if they were about to grasp another chord, and then with a half-turn on her music-stool she remained for a moment looking at the too tranquil Godfrey, whose eyes did their best to avoid hers. Phina Hollaney was the goddaughter of William W. Kolderup.
Thanks to him, boiled meats appeared frequently on the table, followed by an occasional joint of roast meat to afford a sufficiently varied bill of fare. Game abounded in the woods of Phina Island, and Godfrey proposed to begin his shooting when other more pressing cares allowed him time.
"Yes! me!" "And how did you discover Phina Island?" "Phina Island!" answered William W. Kolderup. "You should say Spencer Island! Well, it wasn't very difficult. I bought it six months ago!" "Spencer Island!" "And you gave my name to it, you dear Godfrey!" said the young lady.
And so the black seized Godfrey by the arms to drag him away in the direction of Will Tree, and Godfrey, understanding that he could not be too cautious, made no resistance. The presence of a formidable wild beast in Phina Island was, it must be confessed, calculated to make our friends think the worst of the ill-fortune which had fallen on them.
While he was looking through his glass he saw above the horizon a smoke driven by the west wind towards the island. Godfrey's heart beat high. "A ship!" he exclaimed. But would this ship, this steamer, pass in sight of Phina Island? And if it passed, would it come near enough for the signal thereon to be seen on board?
In short, Godfrey was enchanted. Phina, anxious without appearing to be so, was resigned to this apprenticeship. Professor Tartlet, generally so firm on his limbs, had lost all his dancing equilibrium.
It should be said too that one of the gravest anxieties of Godfrey was not only the re-appearance of dangerous animals, but the fear of the savages returning in great numbers to Phina Island, the situation of which was known to them. Against such an invasion the palisade was but an insufficient barrier.
They will risk nothing except by daylight at least, if they are going to stop." "Supposing they go away when the daylight comes?" answered Tartlet. "Go away? Why should they have come to Phina Island for one night?" "I do not know," replied the professor, who in his terror could only explain the arrival of the blacks by supposing that they had come to feed on human flesh.
Without the arrival of William W. Kolderup, what with the approaching winter, the destruction of their stores, and the genuine wild beasts in the island, our Crusoes would have deserved to be pitied. "Uncle Will!" said Godfrey. "If I gave the island the name of Phina, let me add that I gave our dwelling the name of Will Tree!"
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