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In another lanced at the open cabin hatch That would never do--the cabin would be flooded with tons of water should the next wave find the hatch still open Billy closed it Then he looked again toward Theriere The

Soripped hih by instinct to do so that no one, Billy himself least of all, would have suspected that the Grand Avenue mucker would have been capable of

Across the deck Theriere was dragging hih to atte back to the cabin hatch The as alulf him, and then rush on across him to tear Theriere fro, watery, chaos of the sea

The mucker saw all this, and in the instant he launched himself toward thehi the thethe watery enemy from her back, the two men were disclosed--Theriere half over the ship's side--thedesperately at a huge cleat upon the gunwale

Byrne dragged the mate to the deck, and then slowly and with infinite difficulty across it to the cabin hatch Through it he pushed thethe aperture just as another wave swept the Halfmoon

Theriere was conscious and but little the worse for his experience, though badly bruised He looked at the mucker in astonishment as the two faced each other in the cabin

"I don't knohy you did it," said Theriere

"Neither do I," replied Billy Byrne

"I shall not forget it, Byrne," said the officer

"Yeh'd better," answered Billy, turning away

The mucker was extremely puzzled to account for his act He did not look upon it at all as a piece of heroism; but rather as a "fool play" which he should be ashaink who, despite his brutal ways, belonged to the hbrow" class Billy was peeved with himself

Theriere, for his part, was surprised at the unexpected herois since rated as a cowardly bully He was fully deterreat debt he owed hie for the mucker's former assault upon him were dropped, and he now looked upon the man as a true friend and ally