paused in her course for her crew to fish,

as in the clear water a shoal of tunny had been seen, and the nets had been thrown in amidst it. The men hailed her in her boat, and asked her some questions as . to the soundings and the coast; for there was a fog on the horizon, a white fog like a Silver veil, and they thought it meant wind and water both, and they were strangers. She answered them willingly, for she thought well of ali sailors; and their skipper, a young fellow and handsome, whose first voyage it was on these seas, as he was of Palermo and had always traded eastward, pulled himself out to her in his long-boat, and threw into her httle skiff some oranges and other fruit. As they were from a sailor she took them, and let him see her white shell-like teeth in a smile like sunshine in a storm. When she pulled her boat to shore, he pulled his too inland ; and when she stepped through the shallow water and the sands, he stepped beside her. He was very handsome, with a glowing, sun-warmed beauty, like one of his own Sicilian fruits. He was but twenty-three years of age ; his heart was warm, and his head was hot. He said to her :