“I call them so. Oh, Mr. Webber, did you only know one-half the cruelties perpetrated by these nefarious murdering traders, you’d long for the grave to close over you and shut you out from a blood-stained world.”
The island seemed to come nearer and still more near, and its beauties were soon revealed as one glorious whole, one magnificent Elysium.
Just at that moment a little hand was laid on Antonio’s arm.
There stood Teenie, looking up with pleading smile into his face.
“Well, dearie?”
“Oh, please, Captain ’Tonio, can I go into the foretop to look at fairy-land?”
“Yes, dearie, but no farther.”
Next moment she and the big monkey, Dosie, were swarming up the rigging, and it would have been difficult to say which went the quicker.
She had a belt around her shoulder, and suspended thereto Miss Leona’s lorgnettes.
She turned them on the lovely green island, and every minute a look of joy and delight o’erspread her pretty face, which flushed with pleasure.