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Then the acute realization was forced in upon hier of the line to face The captain had not caught sight

of his superior during the excite had

effaced hilowed in a corner of the pilothouse From that

corner caot to say

about this?"

"I think I'll do ht on the

proposition, sir"

"Don't you have any idea how you happened to be off your course so far?"

asked Fogg, his anxiety noticeable in his tones

"How do you knoas off round, would you, if you hadn't

lost your way?"

"I didn't lose "

"What did happen, then?"

"That's forto you yet, Captain Mayo It's too

sudden--too big a blow It's going to paralyze the Vose line" Mr Fogg

said this briskly, as if he were passing s the thing so cal to meet you"

"Oh--a business man in these days can't allow himself to fly to pieces

over setbacks Opti there in that dark pilot-house for the rest of the

night, staring out into the blank wall of the fog and surveying the

wreck of his hopes, was decidedly not optimistic