of the little pantry-closet he took the girl in his
arms.

"It's the only secret I'd never be able to keep," he confessed. "And I
want the whole world to hear it."

Pushing aside the swinging-door, he went into the kitchen to tell Aunt
Mary.

[Illustration: In the semi-darkness of the little pantry-closet]

THE END

[Transcriber's Notes: Punctuation errors have been corrected and hyphen
usage made consistent. Illustrations (excepting frontispiece) have been
moved from their original page locations to the paragraph which they
illustrate. Printer's errors have been corrected as follows:
Page 7: Dois amended to Dios (Gracious a Dios)
Page 49: bare-booted amended to bare-footed (bare-footed fishermen)
Page 67: speak amended to speck (speck on the horizon)
Page 81: do amended to go (to go down anyway)
Page 82: run amended to ran (He ran his boats)
Page 148: be amended to he (he began to fall down)
Page 171: slippel amended to slipped (slipped a hand into his pocket)
Page 173: furinor amended to furrinor (bossed around by a "furrinor")
Page 182: rememberance amended to remembrance (a sharp remembrance)
Page 205: unimpeachible amended to unimpeachable
(unimpeachable standing)
Page 225: Back amended to Black (together off Black Point)
Page 278: lose amended to loose (cut loose from the _Pelican_)
Page 279: she's amended to she'd (she'd take it)
Page 293: preceptibly amended to perceptibly
(expenses mounted perceptibly)
Page 313: jibbering amended to gibbering (gibbering with fear)
Page 328: order amended to ordered (Smith ordered.)
Page 331: extra "the" removed (darkness across the cave)
Page 347: died amended to dyed (dyed red with his blood)
Page 357: steals amended to steels (put the steels on him)
Errors in foreign language spelling (_Gracious a Dios_ and _Sangre de
Christo_) have been retained.]

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