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Christobal, well knowing how the de Courtenay, followed him to the upper deck Boyle was in the

chart-house and Tollemache Each lanced towards the doctor; but the Spaniard had

undergone his purgatory some hours earlier; his thin features were now

quite expressionless

Courtenay obtained a telescope With the tact which never failed him,

even in such a desperate crisis as this, he handed the doctor his

binoculars Then, both h noon, and the landscape was shi in the

heat-mist created by the unusual power and brilliance of the sun, they

distinctly saw a thin pillar of s above the trees

Courtenay closed his telescope Hesome order, when Christobal said quietly: "Wait! I have soht to reo!"

"You?"

"Yes, I After all, it is only a o alone He could not even pull the life-boat so far Hence,

what you can do I can do, and I have no objection to dying in that way"

"Why should either of us die?"

"You know better than I how little chance there is of saving those est that the reasonable thing would be

to forget the miserable statement you have just heard Oh, please hear