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To e, and shot several

sh it

Elsie felt Christobal's critical eye on her; she was shading the

outlines of the map, and trusted that her head was bent sufficiently to

hide the tell-tale color which leapt to her face But Courtenay wished

to hearover her shoulder at the drawing "Nor about

himself," he added, as she was too busy to look up "To e,

he has refused the command of two ships since we both joined the

Kansas"

"Home orders!" cried Boyle, as certainly beyond hi to lack of a crew "My

feller-et-rich-quick sort P'raps you 'll

learn froe Board of Trade inquiries' You stand on

what I told you, Miss Maxwell You re ossip Elsie turned on him desperately

"How do you expect me to listen to you, and work at the sa hilanced at the chronometer

"I must be off," he announced "Tollemache may need so after"

Christobal, too, quitted the chart-room to visit his patients He had