No, she must adopt the single course by which both her love and her vengeance would be made secure forever.

She would take Storri from Miss Harley; and, taking him, she the San Reve would keep him for herself throughout eternity! The present life was the prey of separations, of lies, of loves grown cold; she, with Storri in her arms, would seek another! At ten o'clock Steamboat Dan was to show a momentary light in the mouth of the drain.

This would be the signal for the _Zulu Queen_ to send her launch ashore and begin taking the gold aboard.

Storri programmed his own appearance at the drain for sharp ten.

As he left the water-front, following the appearance of the _Zulu Queen_, he cast his eye hopefully upward at the threatening clouds; a down-pouring storm would be the thing most prayed for.
Until it was time to start for the drain to oversee the transfer of the gold, Storri would remain with the San Reve.