41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
The Lure o
Gold
and I wouldn t report it that way,
because those smart
Alecks of the hydrographic office would have the laugh
on me.
But if that black mess out there ain t a typhoon
it s the best imitation of one I ever saw. Hold on!
I m going to get Sing up here,
and ask him what he
thinks of it."
He stepped aside and called down a pipe, coming
back after a minute to say to the Doctor:
"The trouble about these storms is they
last so in
fernally long."
"And
they re hot stuff, too," said the Doctor. "I d
hate to be out in a sailing vessel where you couldn t do a
thing but lay to and let it drive at you.
Do you remem
ber the Albert Dcane? That was a terror, wasn t it?
She lay on her beam ends all one night and lost half her
crew. But of course nothing like that could happen to
the Modesto"
Sing, the Chinese cook, came on deck, his loose
white blouse and trousers ballooning in the wind.
The
Oriental looked the picture of humility in the presence
of the master of the Modesto.
said "Sing," Captain Head, pointing
to the dark
moving mass,
him?"
what you think of him ? You sawe
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