. Harper's young people . going to give warning that there was no-light on the Plum-Pudding. Phoebe slipped out of the house unobserved. The foghad come so suddenly that it seemed like magic. A densegray mist seemed to have swallowed up the world. Onlyvery brilliant rays of light could penetrate that fog, butthe Plum - Pudding light was the finest on the practical eye searched anxiously in the directionof the Plum-Pudding. But she looked in vain ; therewas thick darkness everywhere. The lamp on the Plum-Pudding was not lighted. Phoebe listened, and heard the steady plash of retre
. Harper's young people . going to give warning that there was no-light on the Plum-Pudding. Phoebe slipped out of the house unobserved. The foghad come so suddenly that it seemed like magic. A densegray mist seemed to have swallowed up the world. Onlyvery brilliant rays of light could penetrate that fog, butthe Plum - Pudding light was the finest on the practical eye searched anxiously in the directionof the Plum-Pudding. But she looked in vain ; therewas thick darkness everywhere. The lamp on the Plum-Pudding was not lighted. Phoebe listened, and heard the steady plash of retreat-ing oars. David Judkins and his friend were rowingvigorously to Podunquit Harbor. She ran down to the shore to the place where her row-ooat fastened. The tide had gone out, and left it sofar from the water that it was almost impossible for her toget it off. But by dint of pushing and tugging she push-ed it into tin- \vater at last. She got in, and rowed swiftlyout into the thick darkness. She had not her compass,. SHE PUSHED IT INTO TIIE WATER AT LAST. which she usually carried in her pocket, and if she had, itwas too dark to see -it without a match. Could she findher way to the island ? Phcebe rowed swiftly in the direction where the Plum-Pudding ought to be. Presently she felt that she had gonefar enough. But where was the island ? Why did she notget there ? Surely it was time. She was becoming con-fused. The bow of her boat seemed to be pointed towardthe open sea. Had she been rowing out to sea instead oftoward the Plum-Pudding ? And then suddenly it seem-ed to her that she was going back toward Mouse Island. Stout-hearted as she was, Phcebe felt her courage let the oars slip from her hands into the bottom of the 790 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUMK IV. boat, and uttered a faint cry of distress. It was so fainta cry that only the sea-gulls could have heard it. but an an-swer seemed to come; the sharp, shrill sound of a horn. Itcould be nothing but the great h
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