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He yanked a log-book froe

speed froh the

speaking-tube

"Give her two hundred a minute, chief!" he ordered

And fifteen seconds later, her engines pulsing rhyth and water at express speed, howling for little

fellows to get out fro depths of her the orchestra was lilting a gay

waltz, silver clattered over the white napery of the dining-roohed and chattered and flirted;

appointments for the morrow at early hours, and the wireless flashed

them forth They were sent with the certainty on the part of the senders

that nowaters

flashed past in the night outside, and they who ventured forth upon the

dripping decks glanced at the fan of white spulad to return to cozy chairs and the radiance of the saloon

High up forward, in the pilot-house, were the eyes and the brains of

this rushing leahts It was silent but for the low voice of a

lanced at each other in the gloo captain seemed to be a chap

who carried his nerve with him! They were used to the more cautious

system of Captain Jacobs

The master did not reduce speed He leaned far out, his hand at his ear

The third tilance at