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Rh he does all the chores (except cleaning the Light, which is Jim's job, of course) and he is the 'competent person' demanded by the Regulations, who is left in charge when we go sailing or row in for the mail. Just now he was going out to his little domain over the boat-house. He spends his entire spare time, so far as we can see, reading the Reports of the District Lighthouse Inspectors from 1870 to date. His one hope is to become a keeper some day, but he once told Jim that he hadn't enough 'git thar' to try for it!"

It entered Joan's mind to wonder again what had made a lightkeeper of Jim and had brought Elspeth out to this windy little house on a rock.