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"Captain Mayo is tackling a job of wrecking, offcoast," said Burkett,

"and I'o with hiht, out there"

"Does that go with you, Captain Mayo?"

"Yes, sir"

After the ed before the commissioner, and

when Burkett walked down the street with Mayo, the latter stopped on a

corner

"I'll have to leave you here, Burkett I'"

"But how about your takingto help you lie that o with me"

"I don't want to put you in bad with anybody after this, Captain Mayo

I need to keep away for a ti If Ilike this, I'll kill

him, even if it means the chair Give me a lay aboard that steamer, no

matter how bad your prospects are, and I'll be square with you

That's my man's word to you I realize it isn't much of a word in your

estimation--but there are soet back at Fogg and his gang That's reason enough for what I'ht to see that yourself I'ood a man with machinery as I aht, Mr Burkett, coreed Mayo, curtly, without

enthusiasm

There was a fair wind for their departure and Mayo headed the schooner

for Maquoit The feords which Captain Candage had dropped in regard