The sailor resumed his task of burying the stores.
"Poor little lamp!" he thought.

"When it came into the greater world how soon it was snuffed out." But Iris said to herself, "What a silly slip that was of mine! Enough for both of us, indeed! Does he expect me to propose to him?
I wonder what the letter was about which he destroyed as I came back after my bath.

It must have been meant for me.

Why did he write it?
Why did he tear it up ?" The hour drew near when Jenks climbed to the Summit Rock.

He shouldered axe and rifle and set forth.