"Oh, Doris," he whispered, "why did you not tell me you were ill? I would have come to you long ago. I feel a brute----"
She placed her hand on his lips. "Never mind about me, Fred. Has Captain Latham told you about----"
"Yes," he replied; and then suddenly: "Doris, I am going to look for her; I think I know the place to which she has gone. It is not far from here. Doris, will you go on back to Vahitahi with Latham and wait for me?"
"Fred," she whispered, "let me come with you. It will not be long, dear, before I am gone, and it was hard to die away from you--that is why I came; and perhaps we may find her."
He kissed her silently, and then in five minutes more they had said farewell to Latham, and were on their way to the schooner.
The crew soon knew from him what had happened, and R
