"What are you looking at?" she asked. "They cannot catch us, can they?"

The foremost mutineers had reached the boat and were climbing aboard.
The little clerk, white and gasping, raised his oar and struck at them
with screams of terror, striking and screaming again.

"Hush! don't look, darling," said I, and I put my hands before her
eyes. "It is the judgment of God."

She shuddered. Pye's shrieks rang in my ear; I glanced off the taffrail
and saw that the mutineers had possession of the boat. They were busy
with the oars. I could see no one else. The boat was headed towards us.

Legrand cast a glance of indifference backwards.

"If you care to hold the wheel, Phillimore, we can rig that other
sail," he said.

I took the wheel. Alix was by my side, and the breeze sang in the
sheets.

"We're going home, dear heart," I whispered.

She moved closer to me, shuddered and sighed, and I think the sigh was
a sigh of contentment.

The _Sea Queen_ dipped her nose and broke into a sharper pace. She was
going home!

THE END

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