n see, but you others--"

"I shall be in misery till I know you are all right," he said anxiously.

"I will run home. My things are in the gorse above Breniere. And I will
get a lantern and come down by Breniere and wave it to you."

"Will you do that? It will be like a signal from heaven," he said
eagerly, "a signal from heaven waved by an angel from heaven."

"And to-morrow I will go to the Vicar, and the Senechal, and the
Seigneur, if he has come home, and I will make them stop these wicked
men from coming here again."

"Can they?"

"They shall. They must. They are the law and it is not right."

"It is worth trying, at any rate," he said cheerfully, as they reached
the eastern corner and struck down across his puffin-warren to the point
immediately opposite Breniere. But he had not much hope that the Vicar
and the Senechal and the Seigneur all combined would avail him, for the
men of Sark are a law unto themselves.

"But I've found another hiding-place, Nance, where they could never find
me."

"Here?--on L'Etat?"

"Yes--inside. I'll show you some time, perhaps, if--"

"Is this where you came ashore?" he asked, as she came to a stand on a
rough black shelf up which the waves hissed white and venomous.

"We--we always landed here when we swam across," she said, with a little
break in her voice, as it came home to her again that Bernel would swim
the Race no more.

"Nance dear, don't give up hope. He may come back yet."

"I have only you left, and they want to kill you," she said sadly.

"I wish I could come with you," as the dark waters swirled below them.
"It feels terrible to let you go into that all alone."

"It is nothing. The tide is dead slack, and I have these"--swinging the
bladders in her hand--"if I get tired. Oh, if Bern had only taken
them--"

"I will kneel on the ridge and pray for your safety till I see your
light. Dear, God keep you, and bless you for all your goodness and
courage!"

He strained her to him again, as if he could not let her go to that
colder embrace that awaited her below.

"I could kiss the very rocks you have stood on," he said passionately.

She kissed him back and dropped the cloak, waited a second till a wave
had swirled by, then launched into the slack of it, and was gone.

He stood long, peering and listening into the darkness, but heard only
the welter of the water under the black ledges below, and its scornful
hiss as it seethed through the fringing sea-