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"That's a granite-lugger! See her go down, like a stone!" gasped Mate

Bangs "My God! What do you suppose she has done to us forward?"

"Get there Get there!" roared Captain Mayo "Get there and report,

sir!"

But before the chiefvoice of the lookout reported disaster "Hole under the

water-line forward," he cried

"There are men in the water back there, sir," said a quartermaster

"We'rewater fast in the forward co-tube

Already they in the pilot-house could hear the ululation of women in the

depths of the ship, and then the husky clamor of the many voices of men

drowned the shriller cries

Captain Mayo had seen the survivors fro for full speed ahead and ordered the quarter that land lay in that direction

"Eight hundred lives on my shoulders and a hole in her," he told

hi to

ruin "I can't wait to pick up those poor devils"

In a few minutes--in so few minutes that all his calculations as to his

location were upset--the Montana plowed herself to a shuddering halt