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"Shut up!" ordered Peterson "Safe as a church, here or there, you

lubbers Stand by your tackle, and keep your chin Mr Harry, tell the

ladies just to wrap up a bit, because--well, maybe, because----"

"Call

Jean Lafitte by the arm

"Gee!" said he, as he dropped, wet and out of breath, into the cabin;

and "Gee!" reamely as he

could And Mrs Daniver's moans went rhythmic with the pound of the

keel on the shoal

"What shall we do?" asked Helena at last cal to fear for her, it is such a bad attack This is as

rough as I ever saw it on the Channel"

"There is no danger," said I, "but Peterson and I just thought that if

she kept on pounding in this way, it htly, but well enough I knew the risk of trying to launch a

boat in such a sea; and what the surf ht be, none could say Ah,

hoished that ht be the truth For I knew

that, anye looked, only danger stared back at us now, on every

hand