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awoke the next morning with a strange and unusual giddiness and lightness of head, which she attributed at first to the motion of the ship. But, as she looked out her port, she saw that the sea was still quite smooth and the vessel was ploughing through it steadily and easily.

For an instant she wondered at the strangeness of the feeling; but, as it began to wear away rapidly as she arose and went out to her bath, she dismissed it and hastened with her dressing.

As she came back from her morning tub, however, the vague feeling of something strange or missing came to her as she bent before her cabin mirror; but in another moment she had thrown it off once more, and was hastening out to the reassurance and the 223