; but now it suffocates me. Philip, do you 
know how I long for you ? Can you guess that I am 
thinking of you ? " And she buried her face in her hands. 

Jezebel crossed the cabin, muttering in her quaint, 
cheery way, 

" What's de good book say ? ^At ebenin' time there 
shaD be light.' Dey must a' had lamps in dem days. 
So we must hab a lamp in ours." 

She lighted the same old astral burner that once was *j 

blown out by the earthquake's breath. 



EMBARKATIOS^. 387 

Barbara came forth from her solitude. 

The lighted lamp suggested to her a signal- on the 
hill-top. 

*' Perhaps," thought she, ^* ?hilip may be bewildered in 
the mists ; the , if I should kindle it, would guide him 
on his way." 

Barbara thought of Hero's light in the tower to guide 
Leander across the Hellespont. 

Dr. Vail and his daughter proceeded to the hill-top to 
kindle a . 

*' It will not be easy," said he, *^ to raise a bright flame 
in this mist and'yapor ; we must stay and watch it, for if 
we. turn our backs, it will go out." 

While the