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He expected that Fogg would send a relief expedition, but his

apprehensions bore no fruit His prisoner was sourly reticent and by the

feords he did drop seemed to console himself with the certainty that

retribution awaited Mayo

On the third day caht wind, and her lie across to her as she approached, received

that ilie's face as he came to the steamer's side in his dory, and his

fears were confirmed

"'Tain't no use," was the skipper's laconic report as he swung up the

ladder

"Youdoing nowhere There's a fattalk that we 'ain't got law or prospects Got a few men to

listen to me, but they shooed ive 'eet Deacon Rowley into the thing--and when I go and beg favors of Deacon

Rowley, you can iine how desperate I am He's a cash-down fellow--you

have found that out"

"But couldn't you show hia operator And when he knew that