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Courtenay lost not an instant of favoring tide and fine weather When

Boyle told hiines under easy steae three steps at a tiraph, he superintended the hoisting on board of the life-boat and

two of the canoes, which he meant to carry away as trophies--be sure

that Elsie's own special craft was one of the canoes of the wounded Indians in

the fore cabin, and a few furnace bars attached to a rope anchored them

inthem to shore later

At last, the captain of the Kansas had the supre of the electric bell in the engine-rooraph lever successively to "Stand By," and "Slow Ahead"

Gradually the ship crept north, gaining way as the engines increased

their stroke and the full body of the ebb tidethe Kansas to the west, just as the sun cleared the

highest peak of the unknown h he hadthe lead constantly, he did not

need their help Once clear of the reefs which he had seen when the

vessel first ran into the inlet, he ht for the pillar rock,

and rather raised the hair of the man at the wheel, not to mention most

of the people on deck, by the nearness of his approach to that solitary

buoy set in the ood it was to feel the

steady thrust of the pistons, the long roll of the ship over the swell!