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"You may jump overboard any time you see fit," said the skipper of the

craft "I don't need you any longer for bailing!"

"If that's the way you feel about it, you won't get rid of le eye

Mayo noticed, with soed a feords there was silence between Bradish and the girl The New-Yorker was

pale and trelances to

right and left as the surges galloped under them He was plainly and

wholly occupied with his fears

When day came at last without rain, but with heavy skies, in which

er search of the sea He had

no way of deterh

off-shore to be in the track of traffic However, he could see no sail,

no encouraging trail of s

which was not encouraging He stood up and balanced hiazed

ard, in the direction in which they were drifting; every now and

then a lifting wave enabled him to command a wide expanse of the sea

He sahite ribbon of foam that stretched its way north and south