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Mayo hesitated ainto blankness which had shut

doith that s"

Saturday Cove's entrance was a distant and a set In spite of

steersman and mate, his was the sole responsibility

"Will you please explain to Mr Marston that I cannot leave the bridge?"

"You have straight orders from him, captain! You'd better stop the boat

and report"

The skipper of the Olenia was having his first taste of the

unreasoning whim of the autocrat as entitled to break into

shipboard discipline, even in a criticalin hi to explain

The whistler and Razee Reef had been blotted out by the fog

"If this vessel is stopped five s, sir I cannot leave this bridge for the present"