was the moment of her life as looked from one to the other of us with the cold m ing sun glittering on her face i had never seen look so lovely jim felt it also i am sure for dropped her wrist and the harsh lines were upon his face come which is it to be he asked the man from the sea naughty boys to fall out like this she cried cousin jack you know how fond i am of you oh then go to him said but i love nobody but jim there is nobody that i love hke jim she up to him and laid her cheek against his breast you see said he looking over her shoulder i did see and away i went for west inch another man from the time that i left it chapter v the man from the sea well i was never one to sit groaning over a cracked pot if it could not be mended then it is the part of a man to say no more of it for weeks i had an aching heart indeed it is a little sore now after all these years and a happy marriage when i think of it but i kept a brave face on me and above all i did as i had promised that day on the i was as a brother to her and no more though there were times when i had to put a hard upon myself for even now she would come to me with her ways and with tales about how rough jim was and how happy she had been when i was kind to her for it was in her blood to speak like that and she could not help it but for the most part jim and she were happy enough it was all over the country side that they were to be married when he had passed his degree and he would come up to west four nights a week to sit a shadow etc � c the mv folk were about � t sad i t i� tar t o ma ar first was a h id ne there was not the old � js but then when first smart � y jl it seemed to me that he had a i l no just cause for complaint against him we w friendly in a way and as for her he had g all his anger and would have kissed the r� oe in the mud we used to take tr he and i and it is about one of these that now want to tell you we had passed over heath and the of which the house of major � u from the sea wind it was spring now and the was a forward one so that the trees were well by the end of april it was as warm as a di and we were the more surprised when we saw a fire roaring upon the before the major s there was half a fir tree in it and the flames we up as high as the bedroom windows jim ai i stood staring but we stared the more when out the major with a great pot in his hand and his heels his old sister who kept house for him a two of the maids and all four began ab round the fire he was a quiet man as country knew and here he was like old nick at l s dance around and waving his dr above his head we both set off running and he wai the more when he saw us coming peace i he roared boys peace and at that we both fell to dancing and the man from the sea i � for it had been such a weary war as far back as e could remember and the shadow had lain so long � er us that it was wondrous to feel that it was lifted it was too much to believe but the major laughed or doubts to scorn aye aye it is true he cried stopping with his and to his side the have got paris as thrown up the and his people are all swear g to louis xviii and the emperor i asked will they spare m there s talk of sending him to where he ll out of mischief s way but his officers there are me of them who will not get off so lightly deeds ave been done during these last twenty years that have been forgotten there are a few old scores to be but it s peace peace and away he went once more with his great round his well we stayed some time with the major and then we went down to the beach jim and i talking bout this great news and all that would come of it e knew a little and i knew less but we it all and talked about how the prices would come own how our brave fellows would return home how le ships could go where they would in peace and how e could pull all the coast down for there was o enemy now to fear so we as we walked long the clean hard sand and looked out at the old forth sea how little did jim know at that moment he strode along by my side so full of health and of that he had reached the extreme o v the great shadow life and that from that hour all would in truth be upon the downward slope there was a little haze out to sea for it had been very misty in the early morning though the sun had it as we looked we suddenly saw the sail of a small boat break out through the fog and come along towards the land a single man was seated in the 