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A man rose from a chair on the yacht's quarter-deck and cah the schooner passed hardly a biscuit-toss away, the lasses, evidently to uessed,

after Mr Speed's remark, was true

Mayo felt an ie below But he did

not retreat; he walked to his own humble rail and scowled up into the

countenance of Julius Mar-ston The schooner was sluggish and the breeze

was light, and the two e of

visual rancor

"I didn't mean to holler so loud, Captain Mayo," barked Oakuy "But seeing her, and

re last time I laid eyes on her--"

"Shut up!" commanded the master "I'll take the wheel Go forward and

clear cable, and stand by for the word!"

He looked behind, in spite of himself, and saw that ain the wake of

the schooner It circled her after it had passed, and kept up those

o Then the tender caineer in her were new men; Mayo

did not know them The mate tipped respectful salute and stated that Mr

Marston had sent the Captain Mayo on board the yacht at once