The island had sunk slowly from sight; at sundown it was just a trace, a stain on the south-western horizon. It was before the new moon, and the little boat lay drifting. It drifted from the light of sunset into a world of vague violet twilight, and now it lay drifting under the stars.
       The girl, clasping the baby to her breast, leaned against her companion's shoulder; neither of them spoke. All the wonders in their short existence had culminated in this final wonder, this passing away together from the world of Time. This strange voyage they had embarked on--to where?
       Now that the first terror was over they felt neither sorrow nor fear. They were together. Come what might, nothing could divide them; even should they sleep and never wake up, they would sleep together. Had one been left and the other taken!
       As though the thought had occurred to them simultaneously, they turned one to the other, and their lips met, their souls met, mingling in one dream; whilst above in the windless heaven space answered space with flashes of siderial light, and Canopus shone and burned like the pointed sword of Azrael.
       Clasped in Emmeline's hand was the last and most mysterious gift of the mysterious world they had known--the branch of crimson berries.

part i
   Chapter I. Where the Slush Lamp Burns
   Chapter II. Under the Stars
   Chapter III. The Shadow and the Fire
   Chapter IV. And Like a Dream Dissolved
   Chapter V. Voices Heard in the Mist
   Chapter VI. Dawn on a Wide, Wide Sea
   Chapter VII. Story of the Pig and the Billy-Goat
   Chapter VIII. "S-H-E-N-A-N-D-O-A-H"
   Chapter IX. Shadows in the Moonlight
   Chapter X. The Tragedy of the Boats
part ii
   Chapter XI. The Island
   Chapter XII. The Lake of Azure
   Chapter XIII. Death Veiled with Lichen
   Chapter XIV. Echoes of Fairy-Land
   Chapter XV. Fair Pictures in the Blue
part iii
   Chapter XVI. The Poetry of Learning
   Chapter XVII. The Devil's Cask
   Chapter XVIII. The Rat Hunt
   Chapter XIX. Starlight on the Foam
   Chapter XX. The Dreamer on the Reef
   Chapter XXI. The Garland of Flowers
   Chapter XXII. Alone
   Chapter XXIII. They Move Away
Chapter I. Under the Artu Tree
Chapter II. Half Child--Half Savage
Chapter III. The Demon of the Reef
Chapter IV. What Beauty Concealed
Chapter V. The Sound of a Drum
Chapter VI. Sails Upon the Sea
Chapter VII. The Schooner
Chapter VIII. Love Steps In
Chapter IX. The Sleep of Paradise
Chapter X. An Island Honeymoon
Chapter XI. The Vanishing of Emmeline
Chapter XII. The Vanishing of Emmeline (continued)
Chapter XIII. The Newcomer
Chapter XIV. Hannah
Chapter XV. The Lagoon of Fire
Chapter XVI. The Cyclone
Chapter XVII. The Stricken Woods
Chapter XVIII. A Fallen Idol
Chapter XIX. The Expedition
Chapter XX. The Keeper of the Lagoon
Chapter XXI. The Hand of the Sea
Chapter XXII. Together
Chapter I. Mad Lestrange
Chapter II. The Secret of the Azure
Chapter III. Captain Fountain
Chapter IV. Due South