Thus, then, we lived from moon to moon upon that desert place, till I
thought I should go mad with loneliness and despair, for no help came
near us. There were the mountains of the mainland far away, but between
them and us stretched leagues of sea that we could not swim, nor had we
anything of which to make a boat.
"Here we must remain until we die!" at last I cried in my wretchedness.
"Nay," answered Kari, "our gods are still with us and will save us in
their season."
This, indeed, they did in a strange fashion.
CHAPTER III
THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON
For the fourth time since we were cast away on this island the huge full
moon shone in a sky of wondrous blue. Kari and I watched it rise between
the two snow-clad peaks far away that he had called a gateway to his
land, which was so near to us and yet it would seem more distant than
Heaven itself. Heaven we might hope to reach upon the wings of spirit
when we died, but to that country how could we come?
We watched that great moon climb higher and higher up a ladder of little
bar-like clouds, till wearying we let our eyes fall upon the glittering
pathway which its light made upon the bosom of the placid sea.
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