"Why look for him if he wronged your mother?"
"That's why I meant to do so."
She looked up into his face, and stammered, "But why?"
He did not appear to hear her: his eyes were fixed on the man on the bed; and hardly had she asked the question when she covered her ears with her hands as though to shut out his answer.
"Was that why you came?" she asked.
"Yes," he answered. "If we had not been wrecked to-night I should have dropped overboard and deserted."
"Strange," she said. "It was just what he did, when he came to the island nineteen years ago."
"Yes, nineteen years ago," Jason repeated.
He spoke like a man in a sleep, and she began to tremble.
"What is the matter?" she said.