Part 26 (1/2)
”People had been there,” said dick, putting the two pieces together and exa the fracture critically
”Where?”
”Over there This was lying on the sand, and the sand was all trod up”
”dick,” said Emmeline, ”ere the people?”
”I don't knoent up the hill and saw their boats going away--far away out This was lying on the sand”
”dick,” said Emmeline, ”do you remember the noise yesterday?”
”Yes,” said dick
”I heard it in the night”
”When?”
”In the night before the moon went away”
”That was them,” said dick
”dick!”
”Yes?”
”Who were they?”
”I don't know,” replied dick
”It was in the night, before thein the trees I thought I was asleep, and then I kneake; you were asleep, and I pushed you to listen, but you couldn't wake, you were so asleep; then the moon went away, and the noise went on How did they make the noise?”
”I don't know,” replied dick, ”but it was them; and they left this on the sand, and the sand was all trod up, and I saw their boats froht I heard voices,” said Emmeline, ”but I was not sure”
She fell into e and sinister-looking thing in his hands He was splicing the two pieces together with a strip of the brown cloth-like stuff which is wrapped round the stalks of the cocoa-pal seemed to have been hurled here out of the blue by so so withshort down near the point, and began thrusting it into the soft earth to clean it; then, with a bit of flannel, he polished it till it shone He felt a keen delight in it It was useless as a fish-spear, because it had no barb, but it was a weapon It was useless as a weapon, because there was no foe on the island to use it against; still, it was a weapon
When he had finished scrubbing at it, he rose, hitched his old trousers up, tightened the belt of cocoa-cloth which Eot his fish-spear, and stalked off to the boat, calling out to Emmeline to follow him They crossed over to the reef, where, as usual, he divested hie that out here he would go about stark naked, yet on the island he alore soe, perhaps, after all
The sea is a great purifier, both of the reat sweet spirit people do not think in the same way as they think far inland What woman would appear in a town or on a country road, or even bathing in a river, as she appears bathing in the sea?