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"I suppose so," ad off in this little boat We ought

to have stayed on the schooner"

"Ralph!" protested the girl "Have you completely lost your mind? Don't

you know that the schooner sank almost the minute we left it?"

"Mr Bradish's mind was very much occupied at the time," said Captain

Mayo

"I don't believe the schooner sank What does a girl know about such

things? That fellow got scared, that's the trouble There isn't any

sense in leaving a big boat in a storm We would have been taken off

before this We would have been all right This is what co

a fool boss you around when he is scared," he raved

"You are the fool!" she cried, with passion "Captain Mayo saved us"

"Saved us fro into the breakers--and he says

so--and there's no anchor on here He took everything out of ?"

"Don't pay any attention to hi to be drowned! You can't deny it, can you? We're going to

die!" He pulled a tre hand from between his knees, where he had