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"I shall never understand how I ca very tired; I sat down for aI heard was a rapping onme hurry if I would see the entrance to the

harbor"

The two hed, so pleasantly that

it was good to hear

"Yet there was I up aloft,the ship in the firm faith that

Dr Christobal was busy in the cook's galley," said he

"Ah, we have news for you," cried Elsie "One of the poor felloho

was knocked on the head during that terrible fight for the boats was

the master cook himself He is better now, and breakfast can be ready

in five o and tell him"

She ran off, and Joey scampered by her side, for he knew quite well

where the kitchen lay

"Bro Elsie until

she had disappeared Then he turned to Courtenay

"I suppose you have seen nothing of the boats?"

"No sign whatever And I could hardly have missed them if they were

here They h