“Say, won’t he suspicion what we’re up to?” “Well, then, come along no use to take truck and leave money.” I couldn’t hardly hang on to the shutters, I was so weak. He flung a bag of something into the boat, and then got in himself and set down. “Heave that blame lantern out o’ sight, Bill!” One of the men stuck his head out only about a couple of foot from me, and I thought I was gone but he jerked it in again, and says: In another second I would a been aboard of her, but just then the door opened. When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough! I could just barely see her. We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. But I said, come on, if we get left on this wreck we are in a fix, sure. Jim said he didn’t believe he could go any further – so scared he hadn’t hardly any strength left, he said. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too – seemed a week before we got to the stern. We’d GOT to find that boat now – had to have it for ourselves. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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