aster; but that is soon
over, and the day will break. And this is what I am thinking of now:
when the light comes, and the seas are smooth, then which of you--oh,
which of you all will tell this tale to the two women at Castle Dare.

* * * * *

So fair shines the morning sun on the white sands of Iona! The three
days' gale is over. Behold, how Ulva--Ulva the green-shored--the
_Ool-a-va_ that the sailors love--is laughing out again to the clear
skies! And the great skarts on the shores of Erisgeir are spreading
abroad their dusky wings to get them dried in the sun; and the seals are
basking on the rocks in Loch-na-Keal; and in Loch Scridain the white
gulls sit buoyant on the blue sea. There go the Gometra men in their
brown-sailed boat to look after the lobster-traps at Staffa, and very
soon you will see the steamer come round the far Cailleach Point; over
at Erraidh they are signalling to the men at Dubh-artach, and they are
glad to have a message from them after the heavy gale. The new, bright
day has begun; the world has awakened again to the joyous sunlight;
there is a chattering of the sea-birds all along the shores. It is a
bright, eager, glad day for all the world. But there is silence in
Castle Dare!

THE END.

* * * * *

[Transcriber's Notes:

1) Chapter IX was misprinted as Chapter XI in the original text.

2) Inconsistent hyphenation was standardized.

3) Several obvious misprints were corrected (some based on context);
alterative/alternative, Christiana/Christina, Gertude/Gertrude, have
have/have, entravagant/extravagant, handerchief/handkerchief,
imposssible/impossible, Kinlock/Kinloch (for consistency within text),
litterally/literally, Macintyre/MacIntyre (for consistency within text),
Medditerranean/Mediterranean, af/of, Oglivie/Ogilvie, (for consistency
within text), nansense/nonsense, Pyschological/Psychological,
reay/ready, sailers/sailors, Sgirobh/Sgriobh, thay/they, thrist/thirst,
then/them, though/thought, tyrany/tyranny, umrest/unrest,
visting/visiting.

4) CHAPTER XLIII: "And it was with a gentleness equal to her own that
Hamish shut the little doors after her." The 'was' was added based on
context.]

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