Part 1 (2/2)
”Hold on, Juarez,” cried Jie fro wave”
But with the roar of the sea and the wind Juarez did not hear the warning, and had just started across the deck when under went the _Sea Eagle_, and a treht Juarez off his feet and swirled him toward the side He would not have lived aseas
As he ept over, he caught frantically at an iron stanchion and barely gripped it, and before he could ed in the water, the sea tugging at hiry animal Hardy as Juarez was, he could not help but feel a thrill of terror; it seemed as if the waves desperately clutched at him
Jim was filled with horror when he saw Juarez apparently carried overboard He shook off the captain's grip; the latter thought that Ji over after his friend, which act he kneould result in two lives being throay So he leaped to the et aboard before the next wave ca to his help and with a powerful pull yanked hiainst the attack of a second wave that swept the deck and then they were ”high and dry” on the bridge, drenched to the skin, but entirely safe, and none the worse for their impromptu bath
”That was a close call, Juarez,” said Jo sympathetically
”Another call like that and I won't be tu hurin
”Next time take a look for'ard, lad,” said the captain, who had joined the group in the shelter of the deck house; ”we could never have picked you up on a dark night like this” Then he went back to his station on the bridge The hardy old sailor would never have drea much ado about any accident no h alive, that was sufficient to show that it was not very bad The Frontier Boys, too, had absorbed a good deal of that philosophy in the course of ers which they had so fortunately outlived
When daylight cah channel, its waters tortured by rapid currents and terrific cross seas, and was now pitching along the ard coast of the big Island of Hawaii, with its twin volcanic suht It was not sht
”Get up, Tom, and look at the scenery” It was Jim's cheerful voice, addressed to Toot no use for scenery,” growled Toh to it to putsolid”
”Hoould a beefsteak do, To over Jim's shoulder At the y and reached down, and grabbing up a shoe, hurled it at the two in the doorway They ducked and the razed the beard of the old captain, as co aft, and then it went overboard
”By Thundas!” he exclai his eyes ith surprise, ”who kicked that?”
”Tohter he could not control, at sight of the captain's astonished visage, ”but he ive hirinned the captain
”I only wish he had swatted you”
Tom was much relieved to hear this expression of opinion on the part of the captain, of whoht to relief was such a revulsion of feeling that Toan to mend from that moment, so that he was able to be present for duty when breakfast was served
”I thought you were sick abed,” re his eyes with surprise
”I was,” replied Tom, ”until I threw up that shoe, now I feel fine and fit to eat a square meal”
CHAPTER II
FAREWELL TO HAWAII
Jeeroup as unable to be present at breakfast that fine , Jee in upon the sufferer a little later ”Don't you think that you could eat a little so if you were propped up with pillows?”