es, salt with the
breath of the sea below. From up here, looking down through the
silver-grey screen of the olives, one saw all the little bay lying,
golden with the sunset, the sea stretching level and limpid, blue as
evening, between jutting points, the fishing-city, pink and yellow and
white, curving round it, set close on the still, clear, tideless edge,
that was as a lake's margin, lifted by no ripple, but having for waves a
soft soundless sway to and fro.

The Crevequers loved this waveless evening sea. Betty gave a little sigh
of content, and slipped her hand into Tommy's.

'Come on,' she said, 'l-let's run down, and get r-really hot, then we'll
go and upset ourselves out of the canoe. What fun.'

They did so.

THE END

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ABBOTS VERNEY

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Transcriber's note:

In the Table of Contents, the title of Chapter V is "Balae's Bay,"
but in the text the title of Chapter V is "Baiae's Bay." This
difference was present in the original text.

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