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"Well, how about your being in love with his daughter?" The caustic

humor in the old skipper's tones robbed the question of some of its

brutal bluntness, and Mayo was accusto man did not turn his head for a fewas if intent on his duty; he was trying

to get command of himself, fully aware that resentment would not work in

the case of Zoradus Wass When Mayo did face the skipper, the latter

was discomposed in his turn, for Mayo showed his even teeth in a cordial

s the chauffeur trick in order to catch

an heiress, sir?"

"Well, there's quite a gab-wireless operating along-coast and sailors

don't always keep their yawp closed after they have taken a man's money

to keep still," stated Captain Wass, pointedly "I wouldn't blah to do what others have done

in like cases"

"Thank you, sir What's the rest of the joke?"

"I never joke," retorted the skipper, turning and pulling the

whistle-cord Nequasset's squall rose and died down in her brazen

throat "Her na of a clipper If

Marston ever er, put me into a better job than

this, will you?"