"Bat what are you two doing down there?" "We disagreed over a question of judgment. He said this ship isn't safe and I shouldn't have the chance to take j her home. I say there's nothing wrong with her that can't be remedied, and home I'm going to take her anyway. It may be the one chance in my life, sir, of getting a balance at the bank, and I'm not going to miss it." " Ho," said Dayton-Philipps. "If you don't like to come, you need not," said Kettle. "But I'm going to have the stone mason and the dago and those "two coal heavers. Perhaps you'd better go back. It will be wet, hard work here; no way the sort of job to suit a soldier." Dayton-Philipps flushed slightly, and then he laughed. "I suppose that's in tended to be nasty," he said. "Well, captain, I shall have to prove to you that we soldiers are equal to a bit of manual labor sometimes. By the way, I don't want to interfere in a personal matter, but I'd like it as a favor if you wouldn't kill Strake quite. I rather like him." "Anything to oblige," said Kettle, and he took his thumb out of the third, mate's windpipe. "And now, Bir, as you've, so to speak, signed on for duty here, away with you on deck and get those four other beauties up out of the boat." Dayton-Philipps touched hia cap and grinned. "Aye, aye, sir," he said and went back up the companion. Shortly afterward he came to report the men on board, and Kettle addressed his late opponent. "Now, look here, young man, I don't want to have more trouble on deck before the hands. Have you had enough?" "Forthe present, yes," said the third mate huskily. "But I hope we'll meet again some other day to hay© a bit of further talk." "I'm sure I shall be quite ready. No man ever accused me of "refusing a Bcrap. But, me lad, just take one tip from me —don't yon go and make Cap tain Image anxious by saying this ship isn't seaworthy, or he'll begin to ask questions, and he may get you to tell more than you're proud about." "You can go and get drowned your own way. As far as I'm concerned, no one will guess it'a coming off till they see it in the papera" "Thanks," said Kettle. "I knew you'd be nice about it." The third mate went down to his boat, and the three rowers took her across to the M'poso, where she was hauled up to davits again. The steam er's siren boomed out farewells as she got under way again, and Kettle with his own hands unbent the reversed en sign from the ship's main rigging and ran it up to the peak and dipped it three times in salute. He breathed more freely now. One chance and a host of unknown dangers lay ahead of him. But the dangers he disregarded. Dangers were nothing new to him. It was the chance which lured him on. Chances so seldom came in his way that he intended to make this one into a certainty if the efforts of desperation could do it. Alone of all the six men on the dere lict Captain Kettle had knowledge of the seaman's craft, but for the present thews and not seamanship were re quired. The vessel lay in pathetic help lessness on her side, liable to capsize in the first squall which came along, and their first effort must be to get her in proper trim while the calm continued. They pulled away the hatch covers and saw beneath them smooth slopes of yellow grain. As though they were an invitation to work, shovels were made fast along the combings of the hatch. The six men

took these, and with shouts dropped down upon the grain. And then began a period of Homeric toil. The fireman and the coal trimmer set the pace, and, with a fine contempt for the unhandi ness of amateurs did not fail to give a display of their utmost. Kettle and Dayton-Philipps gamely kept level with them. The Italian gauger turned out to have his pride also and did not lag, and only the freeborn British subject from Sierra Leone endeavored to shirk his due proportion of the toil. But high minded theories as to the rights of man were regarded here as little as threats to lay information before a justice of the peace, and under the sledge ham mer arguments of shovel blows from whoever happened to be next to him the unfortunate colored gentleman de scended to the grade of nigger again and toiled and sweated equally with his betters. The heat under the decks was stifling, and dust rose from the wheat in chok ing volumes, but the pace of the cir cling shovels was never allowed to slacken. They worked there stripped to trousers, and they understood one and all that they were working for their liv-es. A breeze had sprung tip almost as soon as the M'poso had steamed away, and hourly it was freshening.

The barometer in the cabin was regis tering a steady fall; the sky was bank ing up with ugly clouds. Kettle had handled sheets and braces and hove the vessel to so as to steady her as they worked, but she still labored heavily in the sea, and beneath them they could hear the leaden ewish of wa ter in the floor of the hold. Their labor was having its effect, and by infinitesimal graduations they were counteracting the list and getting the ship upright, but the wind was worsen ing, and it seemed to them also that the water was getting deeper under their feet and that the vessel rode more sluggishly. So far the well had not been sounded. It was no use getting alarming statis tics to discourage oneself unnecessarily. But after night had fallen and it was impossible to see to work in the gloomy ' hold any longer without lamps Captain Kettle took the sounding rod and found eight feet. He mentioned, this when he took down the lamps into the hold, but he did not think it necessary to ad# that as the sounding had been taken with the well on the Blant it was therefore considerably under the truth. Still he sent Dayton-Philipps and the trimmer on deck to take a spell at the pumps and himself resumed his shovel work alongside the others. Straightaway on through the night j the six men stuck to their savage toil, the blood from their blistered hands reddening the shafts of the shovels. Every now and again one or another of them choked with the dust and went to get a draft of lukewarm water from the scuttle butt. But no one staid over long on these excursions. The breeze had blown up into a gale. The night overhead was starless and- moonless, but' every minute the black heaven was split by bursts of lightning, which showed the laboring, disheveled ship set among great mountains of breaking seas. The sight would have been bad from a well manned powerful steamboat; from the deck of the derelict it ap proached the terrific. The men with the shovels worked among the fright ened, squeaking rats in the closed in box of the hold. There were four on board the ship during that terrible night who openly owned to being cowed and freely be wailed their insanity in ever being lured away from the M'poso. Dayton- Philipps had sufficient self control to keep his feelings, whatever they were, unstated, but Kettle faced all difficul ties with indomitable courage and a emiling face. "I believe," said Dayton-Philipps to him once when they were taking a spell together at the clanking pumps, "you really glory in finding yourself in this beastly mess." "We shall pull through, I tell you." "Well," said Dayton-Philipps, "I suppose yon are a man that's always met with success. I'm not I've got blundering bad luck ail along, and if there's a hole available I get into it." Captain Kettle laughed aloud into the storm. "Mcl" he said. "Me in luckt There's not been a man more bashed and kicked by luck between here and 20 years back. I suppose Q-od thought it good for me, and he's kept me down to my bearings in bad luck ever since I first got my captain's ticket. But he's not cruel, Mr. Philippa, and be doesn't push a man beyond the end of his patience. My time's come at last. He's given me something to make up for all the weary waiting. He's sent me this derelict, and he only expects me to do my human best, and then he'll let me get her safely home." "Good heavens, skipper, what are you talking about 1 Have you seen vi sions or something?" "I'm a man, Mr. Philipps, that's al ways said my prayers regular »L 1 through my life. I've asked for things, big things, many of them, and I'll not deny they've been mostly denied me. I seemed to know they'd be denied. But in the last week or so there's been a change. I've asked on just as earnestly as I knew how, and I seemed to hear him answer. It was hardly a voice, and yet it was like a voice. It appeared to come out of millions of miles of dis tance. And I heard it say j "Captain, I do not forget the sparrows, and I 1 have not forgotten you. I have tried you long enough. Presently thou shalt meet with thy reward." Dayton-Philipps stared. Was the man going mad? "And that's what it is, bla that makes me sure I shall bring this vessel into some port safely and pocket the salvage." "Look here, skipper," said Dayton- Philipps, "you are just fagged to death, and I'm the same. We've been working till our hands are raw as butcher's meat, and we're olean tired out, and we must go below and get a bit of sleep. If the ship swims, so much the better. If she sinks, we can't help it. Anyway we're both of us too beat to work any more. I shall be 'seeing things'myself next." "Mr. Philipps," said the little sailor gravely, "I know you don't mean any thing wrong, so I take no offense. But j I'm a man convinced. I've heard the [ message I told you with my own un derstanding, and it isn't likely any thing you can say will persuade me out of it. I can see you are tired out, as you say, so go you below and get a spell of sleep. But as for me, I've got another 20 hours' wakefulness in me yet, if needs be. This chance has merci | fully been sent in my way, as I've said, but naturally it's expected of me that I do my human utmost as well to see it through." "If you stay on at this heart break ing work, so do I," said Dayton-Philipps, t and he toiled gamely on at the pump. ! There he was still when day broke, sawing up and down like an automaton. But before the sun rose utter weariness had done its work. His bleeding fingers loosed themselves from the break, his knees failed beneath him, and he fell In an unconscious stupor of sleep on, tftj

Kettle dodged, and the mate's efforts gradually relaxed.

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