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Overhead the yardar, and directly over Sara

Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead The wind

was blowing a gale, and the red and green lights of the pilot boat swung

in great arcs that seemed to touch the waves on either side

Sara Lee stood beside Mr Travers, for companionship only He had

preserved a typically British aloofness during the voyage, and he had

never spoken to her But there was soht as she clutched her hat with both hands and stared out at the

shore lights And if he had been silent during the voyage he had not

been deaf So he knehy ale; but he knew nothing about Sara Lee

"Bad night," said Mr Travers

"I ondering what they are trying to do with that little boat"

Mr Travers concealed the surprise of a e

"That's the pilot boat," he explained "We are picking up a pilot"

"But," marveled Sara Lee rather breathlessly, "have we come all the way

without any pilot?"

He explained that to her, and showed her a few moments later how the

pilot ca rope ladder and over

the side