storted visage would haunt her dreams if
she was permitted to gaze upon it; but she did not ask to take that last
look. Though she said nothing about it, she seemed to feel,
instinctively, that the face was not that she had loved, which had
smiled upon her, and which was still present in her remembrance.

"Come, Mollie, it is almost dark, and we must go now," said he,
tenderly, when he had waited some time for her.

"I am ready, Noddy; and you cannot tell how much better I feel now that
my poor father sleeps in a grave on the land--on the beautiful island!"
replied she, as she followed him to the boat. "You have been very kind
to do what you have. It has cost you a whole day's labor."

"It is the best day's work I have done, Mollie, if it makes you feel
better," replied Noddy, as he hoisted the sail.

They did not reach the wreck till it was quite dark, for the wind was
light. Mollie was more cheerful than she had been since the vessel
struck. She had performed a religious duty, which was very consoling to
her feelings in her affliction; and Noddy hoped that even her sadness
would wear away amid the active employments which would be required of
her.

In the morning, Noddy loaded the boat with provisions, and such useful
articles as they would need most on the island, and in the middle of the
forenoon they again sailed for the land. They entered the little inlet,
and moored the boat in a convenient place, for it was decided that they
should explore the island before the goods were landed.

"We are real Robinson Crusoes now, Noddy," said Mollie, as they stepped
on shore.

"Who's he?"

She told him who Crusoe was, and some of the main features of his
residence on the lonely island. She was surprised to learn that he had
never read the story.

"But we have everything we can possibly need, while Crusoe had scarcely
anything. We have provisions enough in the vessel to last us a year,"
added she.

"We shall do very well. I don't think we shall have to stay here long.
There are whale ships in all parts of the South Seas, and if they don't
come to us, we can go to them, for we have a first-rate boat."

They walked up the hill which rose from the little plain by the
sea-side, where they found a small table-land. But it did not take them
long to explore the island, for it was hardly a mile in diameter.
Portions of it were covered with trees, whose shape and foliage were new
and strange to the visitors. No inhabitants