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Sure enough we found name and owner's name cut on her transom 'Two Sisters: E. Tregarthen. Now, what d'you make of it?" "Very little," answered the Commandant, recovering himself; "and that little in all likelihood quite innocent. Someone, we'll say, wishes to cross over from Saaron to St. Lide's this evening on any simple errand, say to fetch a parcel from the steamer.
To you Garrison Hill is a tumble-down fort, and Saaron Island a barren rock; yet you call them yours, because you have purchased them. And, nevertheless to do you justice you are not one who rates everything by its price in money. If you were, I could beg you to take a higher rent for Saaron and leave Eli Tregarthen undisturbed." He shook his head.
Except for the few months when he went wooing after Ruth Cara in the year after his mother's death his life, hopes, purposes, dreams and waking thoughts concentrated themselves upon Saaron, and from the day he brought his bride home to it the island became more than ever his sufficing world.
"I thank you," said the Commandant, and at once gave the word to his own crew to pull for home. "And on our way," he added, "you shall land me for ten minutes at the East Porth, under Saaron Farm." At the East Porth, where they found Eli Tregarthen's boat at her moorings off the grass-grown landing-quay, the Commandant stepped ashore. Mr.
If at whiles the small trio looked back wistfully as old Jan rowed them homeward, or if the shouts that followed across the water from the playground now and again reproached them, on the whole they would not have changed places with their school-fellows even at a price. After all, no island in the world could compare with Saaron.
"Why, if Eli has told her, she will be in trouble to-day and I must go to her." "To Saaron? This morning?" "To Saaron, certainly; but not this morning, if you are engaged." "To tell the truth I had meant to go to church; that is, if you can spare me." Simple man that he was, he had meant having a load to lift presently off his conscience to receive and be confirmed by the Sacrament.
"He lives in the north," she said, "in a city where the sea is sometimes frozen for weeks in the winter, and where night after night you may see the Northern Lights over the roofs. That is why he writes so much of snow and fir-trees and cold winters." Annet nodded. "I have seen the Northern Lights once from Saaron here," she announced proudly.
Tregarthen, though he must have heard the noise they made, did not respond, but continued pulling calmly towards Saaron. "Leggo could not say precisely, but admits that the boat was already nearing Saaron, and that the man, if he heard, possibly did not understand that is, if one can suppose him innocent."
"What nonsense is this?" growled their father. "Annet, my child, we tell the truth all of us here on Saaron." "It may have been a seal," hazarded the Commandant. "I am told that Piper's Hole used to be a famous spot for seals." But Annet lifted her chin and answered, her eyes steadily raised to her father's face. "No, it was not a seal; it was a mermaid.
"He told me something beside, on the morning he sailed for the mainland; which was that but for the help you gave him as Governor he could never have grappled with it. Maybe this was sticking in my head just now when I started to walk up here and consult you." "Well, and what is the matter?" "Oh, a trifle.... Do you happen to know Tregarthen, the fellow that farms Saaron Island?"
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