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Mayo looked aft and saw Al to the spike-rack of the

spanker mast The coach-house lantern shone upon her white face

"Go below!" repeated the master

She shook her head

"This is no place for a wo to sink!" she quavered

"The schooner is all right You go below!"

How bitter her fear was Mayo could not determine But even at his

distance he could see stubborn resolution on her countenance

"If I've got to die, I'll not die down there in a box," she cried "I'ht here"

Captain Doore and turned his back on her Apparently he did not

care to coreat spar crashed out to the extent of its arc, and the sail

volleyed with it, ballooning under the weight of the wind The

reef-points were no longer within Mayo's reach He ran along the boom,

arms outspread to steady hie under hie stick,

rolled under it, and shoved ars under the foot of the sail