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"Say, let's cut out this business of going, over and over it," said

Ralph Addington with a sudden burst of irritability "I guess I could

give up the ship's cat in exchange for a girl or two" Addington's face

was livid; ahis lips away frorins satanically at regular

intervals

By a titanic mental effort, the others connected this explosion with

Billy Fairfax's last remark It was the first expression of an emotion

so small as ill-humor It was, moreover, the first excursion out of the

beaten path of their egotisms It cleared the atmosphere a little of

that ht Three of the

other four men - Honey Smith, Frank Merrill, Pete Murphy - actually

turned and looked at Ralph Addington Perhaps that movement served to

break the hideous, hypnotic spell of the sea

"Right-o!" Honey Sreed weakly It was audible in his voice, the

effort to talk sanely of sane things, and in the slang of every day

"Addington's on Let's can it! Here we are and here we're likely to stay

for a few days In theto

pull it off?"

Everybody considered his brief harangue; for an instant, it looked as