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"If we could only work out one of those long joists it would make a

little show" Captain Mayo shoved his ared across too solidly"

"I think there's a piece of lu to one of the wedges, and the composure which she felt,

or had assumed, stirred Mayo's adainst her forehead to shield her eyes did not tree of which stray locks peeped, down over her

attire to her toes, she see, in spite of

her experiences below in the darkness and the wet With a sort of mild

interest in her, he reflected that her up-country beau would be very

properly proud of her if he could see her there on that schooner's keel

"What a picture you would e, just as you are!" he

blurted She took down her hand, and the look she gave hie compliments "Just as you are, and call it 'The Wreck,'"

he added

"Do I look as badly as all that, Captain Mayo?"

"You look--" he expostulated, and hesitated, for her gaze was distinctly

not reassuring