[Romance Island by Zona Gale]@TWC D-Link bookRomance Island CHAPTER XXI 14/16
"But, you see, I never could put it in any paper, even if I didn't love you.
Who would believe me? A thousand years from now--maybe less--the _Evening Sentinel_, if it is still in existence, can publish the story, perhaps.
Until then I'm afraid they'll have to confine themselves to the doings of the precincts." Olivia waived the whole matter for one of vaster importance. "Then why did you come to Yaque ?" she demanded. Mr.Frothingham had left his place by the wheel-house and wandered forward.
The steamer chair had a back that was both broad and high, and one sitting in its shadow was hermetically veiled from the rest of the deck.
So St.George bent forward, and told her. After that they sat in silence, and together they looked back toward the island with its black rocks smitten to momentary gold by a last javelin of light.
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