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“Yes. Minarii is here, and am I not his wife? This is a good land, and it pleases him, so I must be content. Already I think less often than I did of Tahiti. Do not you others find it so?”

“Not I!” exclaimed Susannah bitterly. “I would never come again. Never! Never!”

“But we were told before we left that the ship was not to return,” remarked Balhadi quietly. “Christian made that known to all of us.”

“Who could have believed it!” said Sarah. “And Mills and the others said it was not so, that we would surely return. ... Do you remember, you others, the morning after we set sail from Matavai, when the wind changed and the ship was steered to the westward?”

“And we passed so close to the reefs of Eimeo?” Susannah put in. “Do I not remember! Martin stood with me by the rail with his arm tight around me. He knew that I would leap into the sea and swim ashore if given the chance!”

“Quintal held me by the two hands,” remarked Sarah, “else I should have done the same.”

“Why did the ship leave so quickly?” asked Nanai. “No one in Matavai knew that she was to sail that night.”