"My poor fellow!" murmured Van der Kemp, as he went down on his knees to examine the limb. "Don care a buttin for dat, massa. You're safe, an Nadgel's safe an' it only cost a broken leg! Pooh! das nuffin'!" said Moses, unable to repress a few tears in the excess of his joy and pain! With considerable difficulty they carried the poor negro down to the boat, where they found Winnie, as might be supposed, in a half-fainting condition from the strain of prolonged anxiety and terror to which she had been subjected: but the necessity of attending to the case of the injured Moses was an antidote which speedily restored her.
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Do you think, good reader, that Nigel and Winnie had much difficulty in coming to an understanding after that, or that the hermit was disposed to throw any obstacles in the way of true love? If you do, let us assure you that you are mistaken. Surely this is information enough for any intelligent reader. Still, it may be interesting to add, difficulties did not all at once disappear.
The perplexities that had already assailed Nigel more than once assailed him again perplexities about a negro man-servant, and a household monkey, and a hermit father-in-law, and a small income to say nothing of a disconsolate mother-poetess in England and a father roving on the high seas! How to overcome these difficulties gave him much thought and trouble: but they were overcome at last. That which seemed impossible to man proved to be child's-play in the hands of woman. Winnie solved the difficulty by suggesting that they should all return to the Cocos-Keeling Islands and dwell together there for evermore!
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