lucky to have happened along just when you needed me." 

 His speech won him a radiant smile, and he promptly decided that the dimple in her cheek was not merely distracting. It was divine! 

 There was a moment of embarrassed silence. The young man was wild to pursue the conversation. But he was too much of a gentleman to presume on the service he had rendered, and he knew that he should lift his hat and depart. 

 One feeble resource was left by which he might reconcile duty with desire. 

 "It's very hard getting about on this crowded pier," he ventured, "and you see there are some rough characters around. You might perhaps like to have me see you safely to the street when you are ready to go?" 

 She hesitated for a moment, her own inclination evidently battling with convention. But convention won. 

 "I think not," she said, flashing him a smile that softened her refusal and at the same time completed his undoing.  "You see it is broad daylight and I am perfectly safe. Thank you for the offer though, and thank you again for what you have done for me." 

 It was dismissal, none the less final because it was gracious, and Drew yielded to the inevitable. 

 He glanced back once or twice, assuring himself that it was his plain duty to keep her in sight in order to see that nothing happened to her. He found himself wishing that she would drop the letters overboard again—that the one-eyed man would reappear—that something would occur, however slight, to call him to her side once more. It was with a thrill of exultation that he saw her approach the gangplank of the Normandy. 

 Then, for a moment, at least, he was sure he was going to have his wish. He spied the one-eyed man coming into view from behind a heap of freight and approach the boarding-plank. He spoke to the girl and she halted. 

 Drew was on the point of darting back to the girl's rescue. But the seaman's attitude was respectful, and it seemed that what he said was not offensive. At least, the girl listened attentively, nodded when the man had finished speaking, and as the latter fell back she tripped lightly aboard the Normandy, and so disappeared. 

 Drew's curiosity was so great that he might have lingered until the girl came ashore again, but the one-eyed man was coming up the 

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