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Show 1!)0 Till': Ltumt'rY ll.EI.L. and boil some fish, aml think no more of watching for a sail. One of her bitterest thoughts was about whether Bin had been compelled to take a Llack wife. If he had, she feared he might fm·gct her in time, though she felt sure she should ncYcr forget him. Her new husband, through jealousy, divined her thoughts. But for l1is jealousy, he could never, he told her, have conceived so horrid an idea. If any woman of the dark race had the sliglltest reason to suppose that lliLL ever dreamed of such a thing, she would have him burned alive. \Vhy, - tho devil was of her pale complexion: and did she suppose any woman with a dark skin would marry with a white man? And the man, and all to whom he whispered it, were so shocked as to be speechless. Poor NAN bacl a double burden of work after that hour. Worse still, -little BILL, who caught up the new language with a child's quickness, let out that he knew that tlle devil was black. Ilc paid dearly for his opinion. He was too dangerous to be left by his mother's NAN'S {,01' IN 1.1111 ;. 101 side : and he was carried ofT' t JJittle 1\h:o was ·1 , o another island. em Y put Ill train in t tho twenty·five wives t I g o be one of ow 10m the Queen's a customary right N son had . • • I A~T could not, for wlule, comprehend thi . a long s, sccmg IJOw shock in been her 110tion that J g had • ' lCr husband miff! t ngam · nnd sl o 1 mnrry Sh . ' JC never did get to understand 't o was told she was stupid; she was .~ . whether she herself was not til(! wife f asked the superior race. SJ o n man of m ster . lC never understood the d'y Y· And Jt wns not tl lC only puzzle tf astractcd IJCr poor brain. mt One da.y in the year was a . festival. On tl t c1 ppomted for a grcnt . m ay the natiycs celebrated th .. dchvcranco fmm tl d . . en lC onunat10n of . they had drive f: a tnbo whom n rom tho island 1VI cooking was d · lCn all tLo , one, and when the dr afar off, :mel tl 1 um was hcnrd 10 aughtcr of the the Queen with people dancing, ' one or two attend away along th b , ants, walked e each, looking at tl on the rippling tc . ' IO moonbeams wa r. She came upon NAN, who |