"I would warn anyone whom I knew was in peril! and you must heed my words!"
"I cannot!"
"Are you seeking death?"
"No."
"I do not understand."
"And I cannot explain, but I must go out though death meet me upon the crest of every wave."
The girl again remained silent for a moment, but, at length in a still lower whisper, she said:
"You have been betrayed!"
The young man started, and a slight pallor overspread his handsome face as he caught the girl's delicate arm in his firm grasp, and demanded:
"Who am I?"