you know she was a son of the sun that way the time we lost the i was only an but i can remember that well enough brand new steel ship first voyage broke the old man s heart he d been forty years in the company just faded way and died the next year despite the wind and the early hour the heat was the wind whispered coolness but did not deliver coolness it might have blown off the save for the extreme with which it was laden there was no fog nor mist nor hint of fog or mist yet the of distance produced the impression there were no defined clouds yet so thickly were the heavens covered by a that the sun failed to shine through ready about captain ordered with slow the brown sailors moved languidly but quickly to head sheets and boom hard a lee the ran the over with no the pearls of hint of and the darted prettily into the wind and about jove she s a witch was s appreciation i didn t know you south sea sailed she was a originally grief explained and the boats are all when it comes to build and sailing but you re heading right in � why don t you make it came the englishman s criticism try it captain grief suggested show him what a entrance is on a strong ebb close and by the captain ordered close and by the repeated half a spoke the laid into the narrow passage which was the entrance df a large long and narrow oval of an the was shaped as if three in the course of building had and and failed to rear the walls palms grew in spots on the circle of sand and there a son of the sun were many where the sand was too low to the sea for and through which could be seen the protected where the water lay flat like the ruffled surface of a mirror many square miles of water were in the irregular all of which out on the ebb through the one narrow channel so narrow was the channel so large the of water that the passage was more like the of a river than the mere entrance to an the water boiled and whirled and and drove outward in a white foam of waves each heave and blow on her bows of the waves of the swung the off the straight lead and her as with of steel toward the side of the passage part way in she was when her to the coral edge her to go about on the opposite tack to the current she swept with the current s speed now s the time for that new and expensive engine of yours grief good that the engine was a sore point with captain was patent he had begged and the pearls of for it until in the end grief had given his consent it will pay for itself yet the captain retorted you wait and see it beats and you know the won t stand for in the grief pointed to a small beating up of them on the same course i ll a five piece the little beats us in sure captain agreed she s overpowered we re like a alongside of her and we ve only got forty she s got ten horse and she s a little dish she could across the of hell but just the same she can t buck this current it s running ten knots right now and at the rate of ten knots and rolled the went out to sea with the tide she ll in half an hour � then we ll make captain said with an irritation explained by his next words he has no right to call it it s down on the a son of the sun and the french too as discovered it and named it from the natives what s the name matter the demanded taking advantage of speech to pause with arms into the sleeves of the there it is right under our nose and old is there with the pearls who see them pearl looking from one to another it s well known was the s reply he turned to the what about old s pearls the pleased and self conscious took and gave a spoke my brother for three four month and he make much talk about pearl very good place for pearl and the pearl have never got him to part with a pearl the captain broke in and they say he had a for when he sailed for the carried on the tale that s fifteen years ago and he s been adding to it ever since � stored the pearls of the shell as well everybody s seen that � hundreds of tons of it they say the s clean now maybe that s why he s announced the if he really this will be the biggest year s of pearls in the grief said i say now look here burst forth by the heat as much as the rest of them what s it all about who s the old anyway what are all these pearls why so about it belongs to old the answered he s got a fortune in pearls saved up for years and years and he sent the word out weeks ago that he d them oflf to the to morrow see those sticking up inside the eight so i see said what are they doing in a like this the went on there isn t a load of a year in the place they ve come for the that s why we re here that s why the little s a son of the sun along there though what she can buy is beyond me � he s an english jew half caste � owns and 