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"What a splendid woman you are! I know that happiness and joy

will come to you. One who has done what you have done cannot fail

to realize it. This hour will always be a very sweet one in my

memory, and I shall never forget it."

"Nor I," she said softly, "for, through you, I have begun to find

myself."

CHAPTER XXXI

PEACE AND PROSPERITY

The village of Freekirk Head prospered once Code Schofield,

Bijonah Tanner, and Jed Martin had started the ball rolling.

Inside a week another large consignment of fish arrived. Boughton

was ready for it, and for all that could come, he said, in the

next two months.

This was music to the ears of Code Schofield and the crack crew

of the Charming Lass, and nine days after they had picked up

their mooring in the little crescent harbor they were off again,

salt and bait-laden, for the Banks, expecting to do a little

haddocking if they failed to load down with cod before they

disappeared in October.