At last a day came when the chill went from the air. The day started much as any other since we had left Crete. I sat in the wheelhouse with stiff, unthawed limbs, my eyes feeling pinched and my throat tight from smoking too much.

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Bella Barnes was going to marry a surveyor, a wildish young fellow, but a good one to work as ever was.

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