“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.” That was all the remark that James Malone made.
And the mystery of that unhappy brig none can ever unravel.
To the end of time it must remain one of the awful secrets of the sea.
Book Three—Chapter Seven.
Strange Adventures in a Crystalline Cave.
Ten months more, and not another ship was seen.
It was now two years and over since the beautiful barque Sea Flower had sailed away from Southampton. Not a very long time, it may be said. No; and yet it seemed a century to look back upon, so many strange events and adventures had been crowded into those four-and-twenty months, and so much sorrow and suffering too.
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”