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The waves were lifting and dropping the fashion There was

suddenly aof the water

"That's the old packet! She went under then!" Mayo explained "Thank the

Lord we are out of her clutches! I was afraid ere stuck there"

"Is there any hope for us now?" she inquired

"I don't know If the boat stays afloat and the wind doesn't haul and

knock this sea crossways, if soet rolled onto the coast in the breakers and--" He did not

finish

"It seeested

"That fact has been proved to me in the past feeeks"

"You mean in the past few hours, don't you?"

"Miss Marston, what has happened on that schooner is a part of the

business, and a sailor

worse had happened tonow"

She made no reply

"But noa with