CHAPTER XX.
HOMEWARD BOUND.
Noddy shook out the sail of the boat, and pushing her off, followed the canoe. Though the exiles had been on the island but little over two months, they had become much attached to their new home, and it was with a feeling of sadness that they bade adieu to it. The house and other improvements had cost Noddy so much hard labor that he was sorry to leave them before he had received the full benefit of all the comfort and luxury which they were capable of affording.
"Don't you think we ought to live on the island for a year or so, after all the work we have done there?" said Noddy, as the boat gathered headway, and moved away from the shore.
"I'm sure I should be very happy there, if we had to stay," replied Mollie, "But I don't think I should care to remain just for the sake of living in the house you built."
"Nor I; but it seems to me just as though I had done all the work for nothing."
"You worked very hard."
"But I enjoyed my work, for all that."
"And you think you did not win anything by it," added she, with a smile.
"I don't think that. I used to hate to work when I was at Woodville. I don't think I do hate it now."