"But what? What did you wish to say?"
"Is it true? Are you here, by me, to stay?"
For answer she pressed his hand to her lips.
Aleck and Chamberlain, once assured that Jim was safe, went below to make a search, and Jim and Agatha were left together on the sail-cloth. As they sat there, a young moon shone out delicately in the west, and dropped quickly down after the lost sun.
"It's the first moon we've seen together!" said Jim.
"But we've watched the dawn."
"Ah, yes; and such a dawn!"
Little by little, as they sat together, the story of the fight came out. Jim told it bit by bit, not eager. When it was done, Agatha was still puzzled. "Why should he come here? What could he do here?"
"I don't know, though we shall probably find out soon enough. But I don't care, now that you are here."
"James, dear, will you forgive me for this afternoon?"