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When he returned fro

the chart

"Do you think we have any chance ofto the doubtfully marked channel which separates

Hanover and Duke of York Islands

"If we set the ht bear up a bit"

"Try it"

"Huh," said Mr Boyle, and he was off again into the spindrift

Be it understood that the sails carried by a big vessel like the

Kansas are of little practical value save under certain conditions of

wind and sea, when they are rigged to steady her, and thus give help to

helht serve now to carry the ship a

point or tards the north, and this was the sole avenue of escape

which reain, was one of those trivial circu of events Had either of the sails

blown out, or had the mainsail been set at the sa the next few hours must have been

deviated froth in

direction could not fail to exercise the most momentous result on the

fortunes of the Kansas But ships are singularly akin to aries of fate A ht or left, may mean all the difference between success

and failure, safety and danger

Leaving the chart on the table, where it was secured by drawing-pins,

Courtenay went back to his cabin to obtain a pair of sea-boots Seeing

Joey sitting on his tail and shivering, unable to indulge in a