After the great excitement of the night Paula had thrown herself on her bed with throbbing pulses.

Sleep would not come to her, and so at rather more than two hours after sunrise she went to the window to close the shutters.

As she did so she looked out, and she saw Hiram leap into a boat and push the light bark from the shore.

She dared neither signal nor call to him; but when the faithful soul had reached open water he looked back at her window, recognized her in her white morning dress and flourished the oar high in the air.

This could only mean that he had fulfilled his commission and sold her jewel.