Part 5 (1/2)

For ainto the sea and swi craft, and bla looked after the port and starboard lights at sundown, as he often did when the watch on deck was too busy to see to the to have done it, rather than to have to sit beside the captain with his eyes fixed on the desolate unlighted shi+p! Boy though he was, he nearly broke down

”Good-by, _Gull_, good-by,” he heard the captain whisper under his breath

Then, as if the ache in the boy's heart had been a flame to cross the sea, it see shi+p, and the captain, speechless for the ht, boy?” he said hoarsely, ”or a mad?”

Like a flash, Colin rehted it for the man at the wheel myself”

Soleht should be,” he said at last, ”to shi+ne upon her course to the very end”

CHAPTER II

THE FIGHT OF THE OLD BULL SEALS

The quick, uneasy pitching of the boat and a sudden dash of ice-cold spray roused the captain fro of his shi+p had plunged hiot to ht, too”

”Did you want us to put a reef in, sir?” asked the old whaler

”When I want a sail reefed,” the captain answered shortly, ”I'll tell you”

As the mast fell into place and the sail was hoisted, the whale-boat heeled sharply over and began to cut her way through the water at a good speed, leaving the two pramoodily ahead into the darkness Hank looked around uneasily from time to tinaling, I think, sir,” he said

Colin looked round but could only just see the outline of the larger of the two boats, and kneas too dark to distinguish any ly at Hank, but the old gunner atching the captain

”What does he want?” questioned the captain angrily

”Orders, sir, I suppose,” the whaler answered

The captain felt the ih he was a strict disciplinarian, he knew Hank's worth as a seaman of experience and kept back the sharp reply which was upon his lips Then turning in his seat he realized how rapidly they had sped away fro her up”

He put the tiller over and brought the whale-boat up into the wind, and in a few side

”Don't you want us to keep together, sir?” cried the

”Of course,” the captain answered ”You can't keep up, eh?”

”Not in a breeze like this, sir,” the ht, then,” was the response; ”we'll reef” He nodded to the gunner and the reef points were quickly tied, thus enabling the three boats to keep together