CHAPTER XVI

UNCERTAINTY Ruth was sorry that she had been unable to speak to Tom in private about the trouble that threatened her picture making by the sponge fisher, Amerigo Gion. She respected Tom’s advice—when he was serious. And it did seem as though he had not taken the matter quite as seriously the night he arrived at Nassau as she wished. She had slept but restlessly for two nights and did not get up Monday morning feeling very much refreshed. She had hoped the _Marybell_ would be under way at an early hour with all the …