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Once, in early days, when Courtenay was a middy an a destroyer, his

ship ran ashore on the Manacles After a bu a hurricane, the little vessel broke her

back, and the after part, with the engines, fell away into deep water

Courtenay happened to be on the bridge; the forward half held intact,

so he and the other survivors cla of plates, the tearing asunder of stanch

steel ribs and cross-beams, which should sound the knell of the ship's

last moments But the Kansas seeroaned, and shook violently when a wave

pounded her; otherwise, she lay there like a beaten thing, oddly

rese but almost unconscious men stretched on the

mattresses in the forward saloon

Courtenay did not experience the least fear of death Emotion of any

sort was already dead in hi current, setting to the southeast, had not upset

his reckoning--if there were any broken li the occupants of

the saloon--if Elsie had been injured by being thron into his

cabin He looked at his watch; it was past eleven In four hours

there would be dawn Dawn! In asAh! Perhaps not even four minutes! The

Kansas, with a shiver, lifted to the embrace of a heavy sea, lurched