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He hurried out on deck Hispassengers who had run amuck

"And those same men would look after a runaway horse and sneer that he

didn't have any brains," reustedly

For the next half-hour he was a busy ated the

Montana's wound, first of all He found her flooded forward--her nose

anchored into the sand with a rock-of-ages solidity

His heart sank when he realized what her plight

and salvage viewpoint In those shifting sands, ed constantly by

the rushing currents of the sound, digging her outher free a hopeless undertaking

His tour of investigation showed him that except for her smashed bow

the steamer was intact Her helplessness there in the sand was the un to take account of stock of his own responsibility for

this disaster The whirl of events had been too dizzying As master of

the ship he would be held to account for her ent? He could not figure it out He realized that

excitee pranks with a e of time He could not understand why the

stea to his ae of the shoals, he had been on his true course and well off the

dangerous shallows

His first mate met him amidship "I sent off one of our life-boats, sir