41 Lure O Gold 1904

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The Lure o
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Oh, she s
making no way at all "
said the ! Captain,
and his voice had an exultant note in it. "I ll tell
you what, Doctor, she s stalled broke her crank
shaft, I ll bet my buttons."
He called up the chief engineer,
and I heard him
say to that officer:
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Jim, we ve simply got to make better speed.
morrow will be the first,
Besides, I d like to come a-flyin
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and we must be in by noon.
up by the bows of that
chap over there. Can t we do a little better ?
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Yes, sir; I ve got a few knots up my sleeve yet."
How can you make it ? There s nothing
but this
light
stuff out of the house."
You won t mind, will you, how I do it ?
No; not unless it s dangerous."
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Well, it is a little dangerous.
You see, we ve got four
hundred gallons of coal oil on board in those tanks."
Oh, you can t feed that illuminating
stuff. It will
go pop if you throw it in."
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I couldn t feed it in solid, I know.
But I ll tell
you
what I can do : I can soak a lot of mattresses in it
roll em up and poke em in. That would work all
right. Dangerous, of course; but we don t want to be
out here all winter, do we ?
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