Chapter 17 NO GOOD IT BETOKENETH.

The positions of the two on Yelholme were reversed, and it became the man's part to speak words of comfort.

"There are plenty of boats about-must be in these parts, my lad," he said, "and some one will see your skiff. Don't lose courage about the little one. I'm as vexed as can be that this should have happened for me. I'd rather have died strai