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"Mother o' mermaids!" muttered the yacht-owner in the ear of the ?"

The men in the tender stood up and reentlee knew it, and that fact did not soften his anger in the

least At the sahter to read him

a lesson in manners in public was presuave hiible for his resentment to

attack

He turned on her "You go belohere you belong"

"I belong up here just now"

"Down beloith you!"

"I'll not go until you apologize to these gentlemen, father!"

"You ain't ashore now, miss, to tell me when to wipe h seas, and I'entlemen know the Polly, and they will find out the name of

the man who commands her, and I don't propose to have it said that the

Candages are heathens," she declared, firize for you" She tried to crowd past him to the

rail, but he clapped his brown hand over her mouth and pushed her back

His natural is as

a father

"I'll teach ye shipboard discipline, Polly Candage," he growled, "even