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The rest of the journey was not difficult for an athleticHe gained the truck all

right, and instantly yelled so Courtenay fancied he said: "My God! We-ah on the wocks!"

Whatever it was, Walker did not wait, but slid doith such speed

that it was fortunate the rigging barred his progress

And then, even while Courtenay was shouting for soreat

black wall rose out of the deep on the port bow It was a pinnacle rock,

high as the ship's masts, but only a few feet wide at sea level, and the

Kansas sped past this ugly h it were a buoy in a

well-ainst it The ship could not have

been more than sixty feet distant, a little more than her own beaainst some outlier in the next

instant But the Kansas had a char in smoother water after this escape