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The engineer grinned genially

"I don't wish to bind entlee, an' I

feel pwitty shu-aw I'll get up steaht It'll be a makeshift job at the best, because I have so

few spa-aw fittin's, an' no chance of ets a move on her undaw her own steam soon

afta Ye-aw's Day"

New Year's Day! What a luht In three

days it would be Christ of the voyage, they were prepared to pass both festivals

at sea, there was all the difference in the world between a steady

progress towards hoht of the

Kansas Death, too, had thrown its shadow over the of the years would reat majority of the ship's company, were probably hidden

by the saht they had of thery seas and sheeted spray

But Courtenay would have none of these mournful memories He had

solved the mystery of the ship's breakdown, and an expert ed his reputation to restore wings to the

Kansas--soiven

fair weather and reasonable good fortune, to bring her to a civilized

settleloolorious news?" he cried "Now, Christobal, that h the Pyrenees looks feasible once h you have never quailed for an instant, can hope to