with a strip of silvery light from the unseen sun we have had a of talk sir said mr to me when we y the personal history and experience had all three walked a little while in silence of what we ought and t ought to do but we see our course now i happened to glance at ham then looking out to sea upon the distant light and a frightful thought came into my mind � not that his face was angry for it was not i nothing but an expression of stern determination in it � that if ever he encountered he would kill him my here sir said mr is done i m a going to seek my � he stopped and went on in a firmer voice i m a going to seek her that s my he shook his head when i asked him where he would seek her and inquired if i were going to london to morrow i told him i had not gone to day fearing to lose the chance of being of any service to him but that i was ready to go when he would i ll go along with you sir he rejoined if you re agreeable to morrow we walked again for a while in silence ham he presently resumed he hold to his present work and go and live along with my sister the old boat yonder � will you desert the old boat mr i gently interposed my station r he returned ain t there no longer and if ever a boat since there was darkness on the face of the deep that one s gone down but no sir no i t mean as it should be deserted from that we walked again for a while as before until he explained my wishes is sir as it shall look day and night winter and summer as it has always looked since she first know d it if ever she should come a wandering back i wouldn t have the old place seem to cast her you understand but seem to tempt her to draw to t and to peep in maybe like a ghost out of the wind and rain through the old at the old seat by the fire then maybe r none but there she might take heart to creep in trembling and might come to be laid down in her old bed and rest her weary head where it was once so gay i could not speak to him in reply though i tried every night said mr as lar as the night comes the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass that if ever she should see it it may seem to say come back my child come back if ever there s a knock ham a soft knock dark at your aunt s door t you go nigh it let it be her � not you � that sees my fallen child he walked a little in front of us and kept before us for some minutes during this interval i glanced at ham again and observing the same expression on his face and his eyes still directed to the distant light i touched his arm twice i called him by his name in the tone in which i might have tried to rouse a before he me when i at last inquired on what his thoughts were so bent he replied on what s afore me r and over yon on the life before you do you mean he had pointed out to sea of david ay r i t rightly know bow tis but from over von there seemed to me to come � the end of it like looking at me as if he were waking but with the same determined face what end i asked possessed by my former fear i t know he said thoughtfully i was calling to mind that the beginning of it all did take place here � and then the end come but it s gone r he added answering as i think my look you han t no call to be of me but i m i t fare to feel no matters � which was as much as to say that he was not himself and quite confounded mr stopping for us to join him we did so and said no more the remembrance of this in with my former thought however haunted me at intervals even until the inexorable end came at its appointed time we approached the old boat and entered mrs no longer in her especial corner was busy preparing breakfast she took mr s hat and placed his seat for him and spoke so comfortably and softly that i hardly knew her dan l my good man said she you must eat and drink and keep up your strength for without it you do try that s a dear soul and if i disturb you with my she meant her chattering tell me so dan l and i won t when she had served us all she withdrew to the window where she employed herself in some shirts and other clothes belonging to mr and neatly folding and packing them in an old bag such as sailors carry meanwhile she continued talking in the same quiet manner all times and seasons you know dan l said mrs i shall be here and every think will look to your wishes i m a poor scholar but i shall write to you odd times when you re away and send my letters to r maybe you write to me too dan l odd times and tell me how you fare to feel upon your lone you be a solitary woman i m said mr no no dan l she returned i shan t be that t you mind me i shall have enough to 