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Thus reasoned the sage Carina; and she had gone secretly and prepared for the voyage, and battled with the storm, which again and again threw her down on her road to the pier. It was a miracle that she got safely into the boat, and stowed herself away snugly under the stern thwart. The clearing in the north gradually spread over the sky, and the storm abated.
She could sympathize with Sultan and Hector, she averred, in their dislike of pilgrims. "Oh, I wish they would not come!" sighed Carina. "It will be so hard for me to send them away." "I thought you liked curing people," exclaimed Agnes. "I do, sister, but papa has made me promise never to do it again."
"I wanted to save that poor boy, papa," were the only words that met his ears. But he needed no more to explain the mystery. It was Carina, who, repenting of her unkindness to him, had stolen into his study, while he sat in the dark, and there she had heard Atle Pilot's message. Even if this boy was sick unto death, she might perhaps cure him, and make up for her father's harshness.
Then people came from afar to see her, bringing their sick with them; and morning after morning, as Mrs. Holt rolled up the shades, she found invalids, seated or standing in the snow, gazing with devout faith and anxious longing toward Carina's window. It seemed a pity to send them away uncomforted, when the look and the touch cost Carina so little.
If thou and I might save her!" Her voice broke in a sob of agony, and her husband gathered her in his arms, struggling not to weep with her. "Carina carinissima!" he repeated soothingly; yet, as she grew calmer, brought despair again.
Manuel paused suddenly, for as if obeying an unconquerable impulse, Pauline laid a hand on either shoulder and searched his face with an expression which baffled his comprehension, though he bore it steadily till her eyes fell before his own, when he asked smilingly: "Is the doubt destroyed, carina?" "No; it is laid asleep."
Now you know the whole story, Alice dear now you know why the tears come sometimes to my eyes as I press to my heart that quaint, precious little sister of yours, so near the age Carina would have been, who softens the memory of the sweet dead face by giving to it a living reality." "I understand," the girl cried, throwing her arms about Eleanor's neck and embracing her warmly.
During my watch I was told the following story, which brings out many interesting traits of the Montenegrin character. A certain man named Gjolić, of the tribe of Vasović, killed two men of his clan over a love affair, and promptly fled to Gusinje, the country just opposite Carina, and inhabited by a tribe of Albanians, famed for their blood-thirstiness and hatred of strangers.
"Shall I open it and see what is inside? She would never know." Carmela was horrified. "How can you think of such a thing!" "Besides, it is sealed," added Maria. These two liked their cousin well enough, and when they wished to tease the Odalisque they called her "carina" and praised her fresh prettiness.
A very common belief in Norway, as in many other lands, is that the seventh child of the seventh child can heal the sick by the laying on of hands. Such a child is therefore called a wonder child. Little Carina Holt was the seventh in a family of eight brothers and sisters, but she grew to be six years old before it became generally known that she was a wonder child.
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