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"I ao aft, sir, without orders from the mate"

"Where is the mate?"

"I think he is below, sir"

"Asleep?"

"I wouldn't wonder"

Mayo did not trouble to use his dialect on this stranger, aa car-porter The tone

produced instant irritation, resentment in the man who had so recently

been e and pondered afashion; he stared up the wharf Then he picked

up his bags and hurried along the port alley and disappeared down the

companionway

He returned in a few moments, came into the waist of the vessel,

and made careful survey of all about him There were two sailors far

forward, eneral conditions on the

schooner see about right--about as I reckoned it would," he

said aloud "Look here, George, howto who, sir?"

"Why, to your boss--the captain--the mate"

"A sailor before theto a