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"I'd like to knoho this Lord Guess-so is--barking behind honest ! That's hi?"

"'Exactly!' That's his great word," explained the other, grinning "Soods, now I knoho chartered this tug!" he shouted "What kind

of a fool a to be?"

He turned and ran toward the officers' quarters He leaped into thethe stateroon of

his visitor

At that liht be the motive of the man's visit But he

was certain, now, that a wretch who had deliberately wrecked a rival

steae's suspicions were correct--would do al

else for money

A narrow companionith brass rails led below to the crew's quarters

Mayo, co to its foot The

captain grasped the rails and slid doith one swoop

"What in the devil's narabbed him and threw him to one side, and started up the

companionway He had dropped the suit-case to seize Mayo, and it bounced