Part 19 (1/2)

”How did you get here then?”

Her blunt questioning was rather disconcerting

”Oh! I walked it,” I answered lightly, with a grin

Her voice changed ”You're trying to be smart,” she reprimanded

”Sorry,” I said, in a tone of contrition, ”for I a Well,--I swam across fro smart some more”

”No!--it is true”

She measured the distance from the island to the wharf with her eye

I reo, that her hair was of the darkest shade of brown I rong;--there was a darker hue still, and that was in her eyes; while her skin was of that attractive combination, olive and pink

”Gee!--that was soet back?” she continued, in open friendliness

”Swim!”

”Ain't you tired?”

”I inded a bit when I got here, but I alishiving her credit for unearthing a great rass, clasping her hands over her knees I squatted a short distance fro hereabouts in theEnglisho there were so in that house at the wharf that's now closed up:--the one next Horsfal's, and they were in the water so ave the fish a chance

It was the worst year we ever had for fishi+ng”

I laughed, and she looked up in surprise

”Then we had an English surveyor staying with us for a month last year

He was crazy for the water He went in for half an hour every ers or any of the settlers doing silly stunts like that No, siree

”Guess you're a surveyor?”

”No!”

”Or ? Can't be though, for there ain't any launches in the Bay Yes, you are, too, for I saw a launch in yesterday”

”I hope I aentleman you mean I have no launch and no money but what I can earn