54/60 I can send Herbert home with three shiploads of faint hearts, while you and I take the Destiny and steer for fortune. What hinders, old friend ?" The seaman shook his head. "Not for me, Sir Walter." "Why, man, will you let that great marvel lie hid till the hills crumble and bury it ?" "I will return--but not yet. When I have seen my son a man, I go back, but I go alone." "To the city of the gold kings ?" "Nay, to the Mount of the Angels, of which the priest told." There was silence for a minute. The light dawn wind sent a surge of little waves against the ship's side, so that it seemed as if the now flaming sky was making its song of morning. |