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But when he groped his way back into the main cabin his hands came in

contact with the inside of the lazaret door In leather loops on the

door he found saw, ax, chisel, and hammer He was unable to keep back a

few hearty and soul-satisfying oaths

"Why didn't you tell me where the tools were? They're here on the door"

"I had forgot about picking 'em tip And my mind ain't on tools,

anyway"

"Your rowled

the incensed captain

Mayo was not sure of what he needed or what he would be obliged to do,

therefore he took all the tools, holding thee he heard the old skipper trying to coirl, his voice low and broken by sobs She had recovered consciousness

and Mayo was a bit sorry; in her swoon she had not realized their

plight; he feared hysterics and other feminine demonstrations, and he

knew that he needed all his nerve

"We're going to die--we're going to die!" the girl kept ht you to it," blubbered her father

"Please keep up your courage for a little while, Miss Candage," Mayo

pleaded, wistfully

"But there's no hope!"