hose whose
good opinion he chiefly valued.

If there were no signs of merriment about them as they wandered
quietly about the strand, if they still bore something of the aspect
of a funeral party, it was at all events the aspect of a party after
the funeral. Their corpse was laid, so far as they were concerned, and
their thoughts and hearts were more at liberty to turn to other
matters.

They have none of them ever cared greatly for Alderney, and they
always speak of it as a remote, unfriendly, melancholy, and slow
little place, lacking the gem-like beauty and joyous vitality of Sark.
But then one's outlook is always coloured by one's inlook, and an
overcast mind sees all things shadowed.

They lunched at the Scott Hotel, in the garden, and felt better than
they had done for two days when their feet once more trod the deck of
the _Courier_.

The southern cliffs were filmy blue in the distance, Ortach and the
Casquets were dim against the horizon, and Charles and Miss Penny
stood together in the stern looking back over the long straight track
of the boat, and thinking both of the lonely one in the mean little
house in St. Anne. Margaret and Graeme had stood watching for a time,
and had then stolen away forward. Their outlook was ahead, where Sark
was rising boldly out of the blue waters.

"I doubt if we'll ever hear anything more of him," said Charles, with
a sigh at thought of it all.

"You will always remember that you have done your duty by him. You
could not have done more."

"You have been very kind to me all through, very kind, all of you. And
you especially.... Hennie--will you marry me?"

And she looked up at him with a happy face, and said quietly, "Yes, I
will. I believe we can make one another very happy."

"I'm sure we can. Come along and tell the others;" and they also
turned from the past and went forward.

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