n undid the cooking vessels and built
a fire with dry wood collected from the kloof. Then Suzanne cooked their
simple evening meal, of which they partook thankfully. After it was
done the pair left the waggon and followed the banks of the little
kloof stream, which wandered across the plain till it reached the cliff,
whence it fell in a trickling waterfall into the sea. Here they sat down
upon the edge of the cliff, and locked in each other's arms, watched the
moon rise over the silver ocean, their young hearts filled with a joy
that cannot be told.

"The sea is beautiful, is it not, husband?" whispered Suzanne into his
ear.

"To-night it is beautiful," he answered, "as our lives seem to be; yet I
have seen it otherwise," and he shuddered a little.

She nodded, for she knew of what he was thinking, and did not wish to
speak of it. "Neither life nor ocean can be always calm," she said, "but
oh! I love that great water, for it brought you to me."

"I pray that it may never separate us," answered Ralph.

"Why do you say that, husband?" she asked. "Nothing can separate us now,
for even if you journey far away to seek your own people, as sometimes I
think you should, I shall accompany you. Nothing can separate us except
death, and death shall bind us more closely each to each for ever and
for ever."

"I do not know why I said it, Sweet," he answered uneasily, and just
then a little cloud floated over the face of the moon, darkening the
world, and a cold wind blew down the kloof, causing its trees to rustle
and chilling the pair, so that they clung closer to each other for
comfort.

The cloud and the wind passed away, leaving the night as beautiful as
before, and they sat on for a while to watch it, listening to the music
of the waterfall that splashed into the deep sea pool below, and to the
soft surge of the waves as they lapped gently against the narrow beach.

At length Ralph spoke in a low voice. "Sweet, it is time to sleep," he
said, and kissed her.

"It is time," she whispered back, "but, husband, first let us kneel
together here and pray to the Almighty to bless our married life and
make us happy."

"That is a good thought," he answered, for in those days young men who
had been brought up as Christians were not ashamed to say their prayers
even in the presence of others.

So they knelt down side by side upon the edge of the cliff, with their
faces set towards the open sea.

"Pray for us both aloud, Ral