_Narrative Resumed by James Orlebar Cloyster_

24. A Rift in the Clouds
25. Briggs to the Rescue
26. My Triumph





PART ONE


_Miss Margaret Goodwin's Narrative_




CHAPTER 1

JAMES ARRIVES


I am Margaret Goodwin. A week from today I shall be Mrs. James Orlebar
Cloyster.

It is just three years since I first met James. We made each other's
acquaintance at half-past seven on the morning of the 28th of July in
the middle of Fermain Bay, about fifty yards from the shore.