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Even then he did not grasp the full import of her provocative question

"It isn't you I'm the one who is wholly to blame," he stammered "I

have dared to--But no matter I know my place I'll show you I know it"

"You dared to--What have you dared to do--besides what you just did?"

"I cannot tell you, Miss Marston I don't propose to insult you again"

"I command you to tell me, Captain Mayo"

He could not comprehend her mood in the least and his demeanor showed

it Her cohter

suppressed There were queer quirks at the corners of her full, red

lips

"Now straighten up like your real self! I don't like to see you standing

that way You know I like to have all the folks on the yachts look at

our captain e go into a harbor! You didn't know it? Well, I do

Nohat have you dared to do?"

He did straighten then "I have dared to fall in love with you, Miss

Marston So have a lot of other fools, I suppose But I am the worst of

all I am only a sailor How I lost control of myself I don't know!"

"Not even now?" Still that unexplainable softness in her voice, that

strange expression on her face Being a sailor, he looked on this cal to have you report me to your father, Miss Marston I will

take ain"