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All this the goggle-eyed mate had said in a resentful and entle murmur of the sea It was for him a

bitter sort of pleasure to have a fresh pair of ears, a newcorief and suspicion talked over

endlessly by the band of Captain Anthony's faithful subordinates It was

evidently so refreshing to his worried spirit that it et the

advisability of a little caution with a coer But really

with Mr Powell there was no danger Amused, at first, at these plaints,

he provoked the them over in his er with the days his

resolution to keep it to hier too

What made it all the easier to keep--I mean the resolution--was that

Powell's sentiment of amused surprise at what struck hination And his years were too

few, his position too novel, his reliance on his own opinion not yet firh to allow him to express it with any effect And then--ould

have been the use, anyhow--and where was the necessity?

But this thing, faination The solitude of the sea intensifies the thoughts and the

facts of one's experience which seems to lie at the very centre of the

world, as the ship which carries one always reure of

the round horizon He viewed the apoplectic, goggle-eyed mate and the

saturnine, heavy-eyed steward as the victims of a peculiar and secret