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Updated: June 6, 2025
The natives had seen the ship and the white men, and there was intense excitement among them. Then came the struggle for Hugh and Tennys Huntingford. For an hour they wavered and then the die was cast. Back to the old world! When it became known that the Izors who had done so much for them were to leave the island on the big, strange thing of the deep, the greatest consternation and grief ensued.
The eyes of the watchers hung out and they jumped like so many mice at the sound. It was so laughable that she was compelled to place her handkerchief over her mouth and turn her head away. "I guess we've got 'em pretty well paralyzed," grinned Hugh. Then he went among them, placing his hands gently upon their woolly heads, Lady Tennys doing likewise.
The mystified observers could plainly see the water some ten feet below the surface of the earth, gliding swiftly off through a subterranean passage. The chief made them understand that this well was for the purpose of supplying the image with drinking water whenever he needed it. "That's very interesting," said Hugh to Tennys. "I'll have to see where this water comes from to-morrow.
Lady Tennys, her dark lashes resting tranquilly upon her cheek, was lying easily against the staunch old rock, fast asleep. He did not arouse her at once, but sat below her, looking at her sweet, tired face, peaceful in the slumber that had been so long in coming, wondering what her dreams could be.
Lady Tennys became so tired and sleepy that her long lashes could not be restrained from caressing her cheeks, nor could her dreamy eyes bear the strain of wakefulness. Hugh, observing her fatigue, persuaded her to turn about in the boat and lie back against his shoulder. Soon she was sleeping soundly, her face protected from the dying sun by a readjustment of her palm-leaf bonnet.
"Thank God!" cried she, tears rushing to her eyes. Together they read and re-read the name, scarcely able to believe that she was truly one of the few to escape. "And Henry Veath, too. Oh, Hugh, it is a miracle a real miracle!" "Old Veath saved her! I knew he would if he had a ghost of a chance. Tennys, Tennys, I can't believe it is true." He was beside himself in his excitement.
Growing calmer, he scanned the wonderful scene closely, intently, hoping to discover the faintest trace of aught save vegetable life, all without reward. He was about to begin the descent when a faint cry came to him from far below. Clinging to the edge of the topmost rock, he looked downward. Lady Tennys was pointing excitedly toward the little bay on his left.
I cannot live without you. I'll have you whether you will or no," he whispered fiercely. She did not draw back, but looked him fairly in the eye as she spoke coldly, calmly, even with a sneer. "You are master here and I am but a helpless woman. Would you force me to forget that you have been my ideal man?" "Tennys!" he cried, falling back suddenly.
"Get back, all of you!" yelled Shadburn. "You can't come out here. Every sailor on deck has been washed overboard!" "Don't let us sink! Don't let us sink! For God's sake!" shrieked Lord Huntingford. Then he saw his wife. "Save me, Tennys; we are lost! We are lost!" A great wave swept over the deck, washing all of them back into the companionway, half drowned. "Is there any hope, Mr.
"Know myself?" she laughed. "Like a book." "Could you love this island if you were here alone?" "Well, I suppose not," she said, calculatively. "It would not be the same, you know." "Don't you know why you feel as you do about this God-forsaken land, Tennys Huntingford?" he demanded, suddenly drawing very near to her, his burning eyes bent upon hers. "Don't you know why you are happy here?"
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