Part 34 (2/2)

”Well, Jake;--I will keep your secret as if I had never heard it But don't allow that drunken chum of yours, Mike, to lead you astray”

”Guess nit! Mike's got to sign the pledge sauttural way

I stood at the door ”And you are not going to put that round

”To hell with banks,” he grunted and turned inside

CHAPTER XVI

The Devil of the Sea

It was Sundayafter the arrival of the American ladies at the house over the way,--for I took the way out

It had been a week of hard work, petty annoyances and unsatisfying little pleasures

When I got up that , I felt jaded As I ate my breakfast, I became more so; but, as I went out on to the veranda to look upon the beauties of Golden Crescent,--as I did every e Bremner! What you need is a swiht of it sooner? I undressed, and in less ti straight for Rita's Isle

When I got there, I sunned myself on the rocks, as was my wont I looked across towards Clarks' farht espy Rita so that I would not, for I was browsing in the changing delights and sensations of the thoughts which ;--I had ht before that Miss Grant's Christian name was Mary

I had found a torn label on the beach; one, evidently, froer to Golden Crescent Bay, B C Canada

ex San Francisco, per P C S S Co to Vancouver

That was all

I lay onthe name over in my mind

Mary It did not sound very musical It was a plain-Jane-and-no-nonsense kind of name

I started in to make excuses to myself for it Why I did so, I have no idea, but I discovered myself at it

Mary was a Bible name Yes!--it had that in its favour

Famous queens had been called Mary Yes!

The lady ned the world-famous ”little lamb” was called Mary

And there was ”Mary, Mary, quite contrary”