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As the canoe slipped out of the dense gloom of the ship's shadow, Elsie

heard the wrathful chief officer interviewing the Chilean sailors on

watch on the main deck fore and aft That is to say, he stirred thee with a ritual laid down for such extre artifice which the girl displayed in

throwing hiuard She had maneuvered

Suarez into the canoe with the fierce and silent strategy of a Red

Indian

The Argentine squatted on his knees in the bows, Gray placed hi the revolver in her right hand

and the dog's collar in her left The Aorously

"Guess you'd better discourse," said he over his shoulder, when the

light craft ell clear of the ship

"You understand Spanish, I think?"

"Yes"

"Please tell Suarez to cease paddling and listen Don't move I can

trust you, but I un, Miss Maxwell The gentleman in front see you say goes,

where he is concerned I a your word for it his name is

Suarez, but he looks, and smells, more like an Indian"

"I forced him to dress in his discarded clothes He es we coive you s I aih

with you, and even the wisest dogmoment You

must have both hands at liberty to choke his enthusiaso on with my scheme?"

"That is what I am here for"

"Take the revolver, then"