The Icelanders were all returning now. Two ships came in the secondday, four the next, and twelve during the following week. And, allthrough the country, joy returned with them, and there was happinessfor the wives and mothers; and junkets in the taverns where thebeautiful barmaids of Paimpol served out drink to the fishers.

　　The /Leopoldine/ was among the belated; there were yet another tenexpected. They would not be long now, and allowing a week's delay soas not to be disappointed, Gaud waited in happy, passionate joy forYann, keeping their home bright and ............