CHAPTER TEN. 

DANGERS, JOYS, TRIALS, AND MULTIPLICATION. 

"I'm going to the cliffs to-day, Williams," said Young one morning. "Will you come?" 

Williams was busy at the forge under the pleasant shade of the great banyan-tree. Resting his hammer on the anvil, he looked up. 

"No," he answered. "I can't go till I've finished this spade. It's the last bit of iron we have left that'll serve for such a purpose." 

"That's no reason why you should not let it lie till the afternoon or to-morrow." 

"True, but I've got another reason for pushing through with it. Isaac Martin says the want of a spade keeps him idle, and you know it's a pity to encourage idleness in a lazy fellow." 

"You are right. What is Martin about just now?" 

"Working at the big water-tank. It suits him, a heavy quiet sort of job with the pick, requiring no energy or thought,--only a sleepy sort o' perseverance, of which long-legged Isaac has plenty." 

"Come, now," returned Young, with a laugh. "I see you are getting jealous of Martin's superior intellect. But where are Quintal and McCoy?" 

"Diggin' in their gardens, I suppose. Leastwise, I heerd Mr Christian say to Mainmast he'd seen 'em go off in that direction. Mr Christian himself has gone to his old outlook aloft on the mountains. If he don't see a sail at last it won't be for want o' keepin' a bright look-out." 

The armourer smiled grimly as he thrust the edge of the half-formed spade into the fire, and began to blow his bellows. 
Where did The other man go?
to his old outlook 