He had built up the fire and heaped fresh fuel in towering piles nearby.

The flames shot up twenty and thirty feet, making a wide signal across the sea.
"He's gone off by himself again ?" questioned the Irishman.
She complained: "I can't understand him.

Will he be always like this?
What shall I do, Dan ?" He met her appeal with a smile, but the blue eyes went cold at once and he sighed.

It would never do to have the two sitting silent beside that fire.

The brooding of McTee would excite no suspicions in the mind of Harrigan, but the quiet of the Irishman would be sure to excite the suspicions of the other.
"Will you do something for me, Dan ?" He looked up with a whimsical yearning.
"Teach McTee manners?
Aye, with all me heart!" She laughed: "No; but cheer him up.