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"Not now," broke in Mayo "The Atlantic Ocean has attended to the case

of that deckload"

"My Gawd, yes!"that we are upside

down--and that shohat a state of mind I'm in!"

Mayo had picked his spot for operations He drove his chisel through the

sheathing as close to the cabin floor as he could Re that

the schooner was upside down and that the floor was over his head, the

aperture he was starting work on would bring hie When

he had chiseled a hole big enough for a start, he secured the saw fro He lifted hih the hole and found himself on lu to find, after the assurance froo of lumber in the hold had settled to the deck

when the schooner tipped over Investigating with groping hands, he

assured himself that there were fully three feet of space between the

cargo and the bottohter, Captain Candage!" he called, cheerily

"It's dry in here"