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Thehis left ar down the back of his big hand

"Sit down, my jolly old mariner," said Bones anxiously "What's the

?"

The ot it, the swine!" he growled

He rolled up his sleeve and, deftly tying a handkerchief around a red

patch, chuckled: "It is only a scratch," he said "They've been after me for two days,

Harry Weatherall and Jiht all the world over

I've suffered enough to get what I've got--starved on the high seas,

and starved on Lo to let them

share?"

Bones shook his head

"You sit down, my dear old fellow," he said sympathetically

The man thrust his hands laboriously into his inside pocket and pulled

out a flat oilskin case From this he extracted a folded and faded

chart

"I was cos," he said, "a

gentleman named Tibbetts"

Bones opened his mouth to speak, but stopped hiether in the Serpent

Queen--ot hold of the yarn about