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12 and flowers, and air like opium—and a feeling like there was years and years all a-callin' to you that it's no use a-worryin'—or a-hurryin'."

"They say men forget very easily, there."

"Without much trouble," he answered.

"Did you?"

"Me? No! It's the drifters, the derelicts, not fellows with anchors."

All the allure suddenly came back for Sally, and she exclaimed, "How I'd like to go!"

"Tamp, tamp," again

"But I never can," she despairingly finished.

"Stranger things have happened."

"Than that? No, Ben."

"You see—someday I ll take you."

She went a little vivid at this, but the inarticulate boy had come back.

It was time, for they were at the Fell gate, and Captain Bluster was hard by.