`` I must come here some day and sketch it , '' said Reeves enthusiastically , `` and you must be the Kelpy , Helen , and sit in the cave with your hair wrapped about you and seaweed clinging to it . '' `` Do you think a kelpy would look like that ? '' said the girl dreamily . `` I do n't . I think it is a wild , wicked little sea imp , malicious and mocking and cruel , and it sits here and watches for victims . '' `` Well , never mind your sea kelpies , '' Reeves said , fishing out his Longfellow . `` They are a tricky folk , if all tales be true , and it is supposed to be a very rash thing to talk about them in their own haunts . I want to read you ` The Building of the Ship . ' You will like it , I 'm sure . '' When the tide turned they went home . `` We have n't seen the kelpy , after all , '' said Reeves . `` I think I shall see him some day , '' said Helen gravely . `` I think he is waiting for me there in that gloomy cave of his , and some time or other he will get me . '' Reeves smiled at the gloomy fancy , and Helen smiled back at him with one of her sudden radiances . The tide was creeping swiftly up over the white sands . The sun was low and the bay was swimming in a pale blue glory . They parted at Clam Point , Helen to go for the cows and Reeves to wander on up the shore . He thought of Helen at first , and the wonderful change that had come over her of late ; then he began to think of another face -- a marvellously lovely one with blue eyes as tender as the waters before him . Then Helen was forgotten . The summer waned swiftly .
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