Part 24 (1/2)
'_Auf Wiedersehen_,' he said, simply
She shook her head, did not even offer her hand, and pulled away; Davies turned sharp round and went below
There was now no ood deal, and the sands were covering I offered again to take the sculls, but she took no notice and rowed on, so that I was a silent passenger on the ste, built to the native model, with a spoon-bow and tiny lee-boards It was already afloat, but riding quite safely to a rope and a little grapnel, which she proceeded to haul in
'It was quite safe after all, you see,' I said
'Yes, but I could not stay Herr Carruthers, I want to say so over again) 'Ion us to-morrow'
'Why not?'
'You will not seeback?'
'Yes, by thesteamer; but he will be very busy'
'We can wait We have several days to spare, and we have to call for letters anyhow'
'You must not delay on our account The weather is very fine at last
It would be a pity to lose a chance of a sland
The season--'
'We have no fixed plans Davies wants to get so
'My father will be much occupied'
'We can see _you_'
I insisted on being obtuse, for though this fencing with an unstrung girl was hateful work, the quest was at stake We were going to Norderney, coht, and sooner or later wenot to I had given no pledge to von Bruning, and I would give none to her The only alternative was to violate the compact (which the present fiasco had surely weakened), speak out, and try and ainst her own father? I shrank from the responsibility and counted the cost of failure--certain failure, to judge by her conduct She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shi+ftless fashi+on, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward
'Father ht not like it,' she said, so low and froht her words 'He does not like foreigners ain'
'But I thought--'
'It rong of me to come aboard--I suddenly remembered; but I could not tell Herr Davies'
'I see,' I answered 'I will tell him'
'Yes, that he must not come near us
'He will understand I knoill be very sorry, but,' I added, fir' And how I prayed that this would content her! Thank Heaven, it did