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Updated: June 19, 2025
The good man was thinking of Phina. That done, the professor and his pupil rushed into one another's arms. "My dear Godfrey!" exclaimed Tartlet. "My good Tartlet!" replied Godfrey. "At last we are arrived in port!" observed the professor in the tone of a man who had had enough of navigation and its accidents. He called it arriving in port! Godfrey had no desire to contradict him.
But if Godfrey took all these precautions so as to make existence a little more possible on this lone isle of the Pacific, in case he and his companion were destined to live on it for some time, or perhaps live on it for ever, he had no intention of neglecting in any way the chances of rescue. Phina Island was not on the routes taken by the ships that was only too evident.
Continually did the vessel visibly approach. About four o'clock her hull had come up on the line between the sky and the sea. She was a large steamer, bearing north-east. Godfrey easily made that out. If that direction was maintained, she would inevitably approach Phina Island. Godfrey had at first thought of running back to Will Tree to inform Tartlet. What was the use of doing so?
"But with those terrible creatures," said Phina, "Spencer Island " "Phina Island " interrupted Godfrey. "Phina Island," continued the bride, with a smile, "is quite uninhabitable." "Bah!" answered Uncle Will; "we can wait till the last lion has eaten up the last tiger!" "And then, dearest Phina," said Godfrey, "you will not be afraid to pass a season there with me?"
Yes! she and he were in the drawing-room she, in front of the piano; he, half reclining on the sofa, listening vaguely to the pearly arpeggios which escaped from the fingers of the charmer. "Are you listening?" she said. "Of course." "Yes! but do you understand it?" "Do I understand it, Phina! Never have you played those 'Auld Robin Gray' variations more superbly."
But Phina, without perceiving it perhaps, was playing in "A minor," whereas it was written in "A major," and all the sentiment of the melody was transformed, and its plaintiveness chimed in well with her hidden feelings. But Godfrey stood embarrassed, and said not a word. His uncle took him by the head and turning it to the light looked fixedly at him for a moment or two.
And what did they then see? They saw issue from the hold a man who, having swum to the Dream during the night while she was anchored at Phina Island, had succeeded in stowing himself away for the second time! And who was this man? It was the Chinaman, Seng Vou, who had made the passage back as he had made the passage out! Seng Vou advanced towards William W. Kolderup. "I hope Mr.
The first is, you stay with me, dearest Phina; the second is, that Uncle Will lives with us; and the third is, that the chaplain of the Dream marries us this very day!" "There is no chaplain on board the Dream, Godfrey!" replied Uncle Will. "You know that very well. But I think there is still one left in San Francisco, and that we can find some worthy minister to perform the service!
There the new guest of Phina Island met with quite a surprise in the habitation so happily contrived in the lower part of the sequoia. First he had to be shown, by using them while he looked on, the use of the tools, instruments, and utensils. It was obvious that Carefinotu belonged to, or had lived amongst savages in the lowest rank of the human scale, for fire itself seemed to be unknown to him.
The son of a sister of this buyer of islands, fatherless and motherless for a good many years, Godfrey Morgan, like Phina, had been brought up in the house of his uncle, in whom the fever of business had still left a place for the idea of marrying these two to each other. Godfrey was in his twenty-third year. His education now finished, had left him with absolutely nothing to do.
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