On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales by Jack London

for what he’s missed–awfully sorry for him, but equally glad for

me. And . . . one other thing: five years hence I’ve something to

tell you, something rich, something ridiculously rich, and all

about me and the foolishness of me over you. Five years. Is it a

date?”

“I shall keep it if it is fifty years,” she sighed, as she nestled

closer to him.

GLEN ELLEN, CALIFORNIA.

August 17, 1916.

On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales

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Footnotes:

{1} See Dibble’s “A History of the Sandwich Islands.”

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