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"When these old critters once get loose enough to play they rattle to

piecesspecially bad"

"Find out e've got under us," snapped Captain Downs The wedges

had been driven "Let this nigger carry the lead for'ard!"

It was a difficult task in the night, because the leadline had to be

passed from the quarter-deck to the cathead outside the shrouds; the

rails and deck were slippery Plainly, Captain Doas proposing to

show Mayo "a thing or two"

He let go the lead at co the line when it swung into a perpendicular position, report

twenty-five fatho the mate's bawled orders, Mayo carried the lead forward

and dropped it, after a period of waiting, during which the schooner

had been eased off He was soaked to the skin, and was miserable in both

body and mind He had betrayed hi which could help him; he felt a queer sense of shairl and the expression of her face

He tried to convince himself that he did not care what her opinion

of him was What happened to that love she had professed on board the

Olenia? What manner of maiden was this? He did not understand!