“No. My dear wife, no! Yet all has been for good. All is very good. I shall find new work in a new country.”
“And I too?”
Max smiled. “Yes, she too. We'll work together, my little lady!”
The half hour was soon over—the few last words soon said. But I did not at all realize that we were away, till I saw Augustus wave us good-bye, and heard the sudden boom of our farewell gun as the Europa slipped off her mail-tender, and went steaming seaward alone—fast, oh! so fast.
The sound of that gun, it must have nearly broken many a heart, many a time! I think it would have broken mine, had I not, standing, close-clasped, by my husband's side, looked up in his dear face, and read, as he in mine, that to us thus together, everywhere was Home.