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The two captains looked at the tallets, and then at each other The

next moment their attention was fully taken up by anotheraft and lined up forward of the house

A spokes into so that p'raps ain't

none of our business We ain'tto peek nor pry, but so We've cleaned out our pockets Here it

is--three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents Will

you let me step onto the quarter-deck and lay it down 'side of them

wallets?" He accepted their amazed silence as consent, and ahty uncertain one," protested Mayo

"We 'ain't never had no chance to be sports before in all our lives,"

pleaded the man "We wouldn't have had that ive us the chance you have We wa'n't more'n half men before

Noe can hold up our heads You'llwith you, if you won't let us in"

"You bet you can coe "I kno

you feel"

"And another thing," went on the spokesman "We 'ain't had much time to

talk this over; we rushed aft here as soon as we heard and had cleaned

out our pockets But we've said enough to each other so that we can