Part 3 (1/2)

”Tell you, I smell it!”

”There's northen burnin' here, sir”

”Neither is there; it's all on deck Sos, most likely, they've thrown on the fire”

”Captain!” said Lestrange

”Ay, ay”

”Coe climbed on to the poop

”I don't knohether it'se about the main-mast”

The main-mast near where it entered the deck, and for some distance up, seee to watch fro

This apparent ue that one could only tell of its existence froe-like tremor of the e, as he sprang froe followed hi every moment to clutch the bulwark rail and pant for breath He heard the shrill bird-like notes of the bosun's pipe He saw the hands e from the forecastle, like bees out of a hive; he watched the the -bars removed He saw the hatch opened, and a burst of smoke--black, villainous smoke--ascend to the sky, solid as a pluhly nervous temperament, and it is just this sort of ency, whilst your level-headed, phleght was of the children, his second of the boats

In the battering off Cape Horn the Northu-boat, a quarter-boat, and the dinghy

He heard Le Farge's voice ordering the hatch to be closed and the pu that he could do nothing on deck, he made as swiftly as he could for the saloon co out of the children's cabin

”Are the children lying down, Mrs Stannard?” asked Lestrange, almost breathless from the excitelanced at hihtened eyes He looked like the very herald of disaster

”For if they are, and you have undressed theain The shi+p is on fire, Mrs Stannard”

”Good God, sir!”

”Listen!” said Lestrange

Froulls on a desolate beach, ca of the pumps

CHAPTER IV

AND LIKE A DREAM DISSOLVED

Before the woman had time to speak a thunderous step was heard on the coe broke into the saloon The lassy like the eyes of a drunkard, and the veins stood on his temples like twisted cords

”Get those children ready!” he shouted, as he rushed into his own cabin ”Get you all ready--boats are being swung out and victualled