gray
plain was a steamer slowly making her way toward the east. Was that the
packet bound for England, carrying to Wenna Rosewarne the message that
she was free?

CHAPTER XXXI.

"BLUE IS THE SWEETEST."

The following correspondence may now, without any great breach of
confidence, be published:

"EGLOSILYAN, Monday morning.

DEAR MR. TRELYON: Do you know what Mr. Roscorla says in the
letter Wenna has just received? Why, that you could not get
up that ring by dredging, but that you must have bought the
other one at Plymouth. Just think of the wicked old wretch
fancying such things! As if you would give a ring _of emeralds
to any one_! Tell me that this is a story, that I may bid
Wenna contradict him at once. I have got no patience with a man
who is given over to such mean suspicions. Yours faithfully,

MABYN ROSEWARNE."

"LONDON, Tuesday night.

Dear Mabyn: I am sorry to say Mr. Roscorla is right. It was a
foolish trick--I did not think it would be successful, for my
hitting the size of her finger was rather a stroke of luck--but
I thought it would amuse her if she did find it out after an
hour or two. I was afraid to tell her afterward, for she would
think it impertinent. What's to be done? Is she angry about it.
Yours sincerely,

HARRY TRELYON."

"EGLOSILYAN.

Dear Mr. Trelyon: How could you do such a thing? Why, to give
Wenna, of all people in the world, an emerald ring, just after I
had got Mr. Roscorla to give her one, for bad luck to himself!
Why, how could you do it? I don't know what to say about it,
unless you demand it back, _and send her one with sapphires in
it at once_.

Yours, M.R.

P.S.--As quick as ever you can."

"LONDON, Friday evening.

Dear Mabyn: Why, you know she wouldn't take a sapphire ring or
any other from me. Yours faithfully,

H. TRELYON."

"MY DEAR MR. TRELYON: Pray don't lose any time in writing, but
send me at once a sapphire ring for Wenna. You have hit the size
once, and you can do it again; but in any case I have marked the
size on this bit of thread, and the jeweler will understand. And
please, dear Mr. Trelyon, don't get a very expensive one, but a
plain, good one, just what a poor person like me would buy for a
present if I wanted to. And post it at once, please: _this is
very importan