Page 239 (1/2)

"Shut up!" barked Mayo

The girl was trean to blubber "I'm not prepared to die," he protested

Mayo studied his passenger for so his brows "Bradish,

listen to ave hirief pereneral earthly

affairs But we may as well clean the slate between us two That will

help our consciences a little I haven't any quarrel with you any more

We won't be mushy about it But let's cross it off"

"It's all over," es?"

"I suppose it's true that the court has indicted hter

Bradish, tell o into those breakers

with that on my conscience!"

"I don't knohat you mean"

"Yes, you do! You knohether those men of the schooner Warren were

drowned by any criminal mistake of mine or not!"

Bradish did not speak