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l soon forget. All will be as it was before!" She maintained her obstinate silence. "Do I not speak true words?" Garth challenged. She evaded the question. "If you go out, you send the police after him," she muttered. He saw Mabyn's hand here. "I will not," he said quickly. "I give you my word on that!" She looked at him incredulously. She did not understand the pledge. "There's my hand on it," said Garth, offering it. Rina gravely laid her own in it, and let him wag it up and down. This form of binding an agreement she knew. Still she had not committed herself to anything; and Garth paused, determined to make her speak before he went on. She favoured him at last with a walled glance purely savage. "Let 'Erbe't go off the island," she said indifferently. Clearly she asked it more with the idea to see what he would say, than with any hope of his agreeing. "I will not do that," said Garth firmly. "Night and day he would be plotting to kill me. Night and day he would be driving you on to do it for him. You would try to do it. You cannot say no to him! And if you did bring me down--" Garth sunk his voice--"all, _all_ would be lost!--Mabyn and you and Natalie and I!" Her eyes sought his with a poignant glance; and she paled again. He felt he had made an impression. "I will treat him kindly," he said, seeking to follow up his advantage. "You shall go to the shack now for everything he needs; and we will take it to him." "Can I spik with him?" asked Rina in a low tone. Garth rejoiced--it was the first token of submission. "For five minutes by my watch," he said. XIX GRYLLS REDIVIVUS On the next day but one Natalie's condition took a sharp turn for the worse; and for many days thereafter, Garth put every other thought out of his head. She fell into a high fever and suffered incessantly and cruelly. At this call, Rina showed forth in colours wholly admirable; day or night she seldom left her patient's side; she was never at a loss what to do; and Garth comforted himself with the thought that Natalie could scarcely have had better care anywhere. During these busy days Rina appeared to forget her own heartache in a measure; and never once on the occasion of their daily trip to the island (Garth forcing her to accompany him) did she again express a wish to speak to Mabyn. At their approach Mabyn always retreated; and they were accustomed to set his rations down on the shore and imm
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