A Maid of the Silver Sea

n a rock within a few feet of the narrow slit

parable-"wanted me to join him in

, n

join him, 'cause he couldn' do it

A

goin' to make a fortune

A

d every shilling he earned. An' the more

A

it all goes into them big

A

s silver an' lead, and guyabble-knows-what-all in

portentously, as one who had gaug

he did allow his thoughts out they came slowly and in jerks, with

eath of his father. He had married another farm and the heiress attached to it, and Peter was the result. An on

he short course of schooling which had been deemed sufficient for so worldly-well-endowed a boy; tall, loose-limbed, easy going and easi

join him in the loan the money'd all

Can't get all you want sometimes

at lass as th' old un is 'bout his mines.

... I'm makin' up to her g

dug his elbow facetio

ke you as fool-soft as a bit of tallow!" and Tom stared at him in amazement. "Why,

Tom Hamon, if I'd been there. Right

place you wouldn't have looked at her then. She was no more to look at than a

ou was, Tom. Ought to had mor

said

asked Peter

nows it. Them dirty mines may pay an' they may not,

rig without breaking his legs," nodding towards the wooden landing-stage on the other side o

w standing looking somewhat anxiously after the landing of his b

to the group of men who had come down to watch the boat come in, and four pairs of eyes on the opposite side

e stop?" a

hou

ay

you. He's to st

't he go t

ave his hands full, I'm thinking. And if he's not careful it's a

id Peter

and see what kin

ct the new Mine Captain, who was to brace up the slacken

h us, Nance?" asked Bernel, as they gr

r tell mother

s he to

p into the loft. I shall take the dark

and went off across the common towards the clump of wind-whipped trees inside which the