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XIII<br />

WRECK OF THE &quot;FLYING<br />

r<br />

MIST&quot;<br />

I LOOKED to the westward, where Mr. Nason pointed,<br />

and saw a small black craft<br />

about half a mile away.<br />

Her decks were all raked clean save for a tall, bare stick<br />

of a mast.<br />

&quot;When I first picked her up,&quot;<br />

said the officer,<br />

&quot;I<br />

thought I<br />

saw a puff of smoke above the top<br />

of that<br />

mast, but I haven t<br />

made out anything of the sort since.<br />

I could hardly believe my eyes at the first,<br />

and the Cap<br />

tain scoffed at the idea, but when he looked sharply<br />

he saw it,<br />

too.&quot;<br />

Why,&quot; said I,<br />

she must be the Flying Mist.<br />

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That s what she is,&quot;<br />

affirmed the Doctor, speaking<br />

to Mr. Nason.<br />

funnel mast<br />

Didn t<br />

you see a strange craft with a<br />

a steam schooner or something<br />

sort lying up there off the Nome coast ?<br />

of that<br />

&quot;I didn t notice her,&quot;<br />

said the first officer, &quot;or,<br />

at<br />

least if I did, I didn t see that she had a funnel for a<br />

mast. So that s the Flying Mist ? I ve heard of her<br />

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