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"Nobody would ever guess you are a cook, hearing you describe a girl,"

sneered the engineer

"There's aon before the

dude hushed her up She was saying so sorry that she

had come, and that she wished she was back, and that she had always

done things on the impulse, and didn't stop to think, and so forth, and

couldn't the ship be turned around"

Mayo forgot hi ropes and stood there and

listened eagerly until the cook's indignant eye chanced to take a swing

in his direction

"Do you see who's standing there butting in on the private talk of two

gents?" he asked the engineer "Hand er where he belongs"

But Mayo retreated in a hurry, knowing that he was not permitted to

protest either by word or by look However, the cook had given hiossip which kept the

young hts busy

In spite of his rather conteirl who

would hazard such a silly adventure, he found hi that she was really sorry But as to as going on

in theHe wondered whether

Captain Doould marry the couple in such equivocal fashion