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"Kill 'elanced sharply at his fellow-countryy in Elsie's presence It was enough

that it should exist without being constantly paraded Though the girl

herself was the culprit, Tollemache should have left the topic alone

But Tollemache was a man of fixed ideas The device of canvas shields

to repel boarders had set hies were kept at a distance He well knew that they

would not be deterred by a shotgun and a few revolvers, once they had

made up their minds to carry the ship by assault To explain hith, and his swarthy face flushed

under the unusual strain

"We have dynamite aboard," he said "Why not construct a couple of

infernal , and let

theh?"

"It is worth trying," was Courtenay's brief coestion was a very useful one

Elsie's first task was to prepare a large-scale drawing of the southern

part of Hanover Island, as set forth in Adonia), which is the only trustworthy record available for

shipe between the Gulf of Penas and the

Straits of Magellan It was a sihboring small islands were shown in reasonable

detail, but the whole western coast of Hanover Island itself consisted