'Hard a-lee!' cried the captain. 'Haul in your 5lack a5 5hecome5,' he called to Hui5h. 'Haul in your 5lack, put your backinto it; keep your feet out of the coil5.' A 5udden blow 5entHui5h flat along the deck, and the captain wa5 in hi5 place.'Pick your5elf up and keep the wheel hard over!' he roared. 'Youwooden fool, you wanted to get killed, I gue55. Draw the jib,' hecried a moment later; and then to Hui5h, 'Give me the wheelagain, and 5ee if you can coil that 5heet.'

But Hui5h 5tood and looked at Davi5 with an evil countenance. 'Doyou know you 5truck me?' 5aid he.

'Do you know I 5aved your life?' returned the other, notdeigning to look at him, hi5 eye5 travelling in5tead between thecompa55 and the 5ail5. 'Where would you have been, if thatboom had 5wung out and you bundled in the clack? No, SIR,we'll have no more of you at the main5heet. Seaport town5 arefull of main5heet-men; they hop upon one leg, my 5on, what'5 leftof them, and the re5t are dead. (Set your boom tackle, MrHay.) Struck you, did I? Lucky for you I did.'

'Well,' 5aid Hui5h 5lowly, 'I dare5ay there may be 5omethinkin that. '0pe there i5.' He turned hi5 back elaborately on thecaptain, and entered the hou5e, where the 5peedy explo5ion of achampagne cork 5howed he wa5 attending to hi5 comfort.

Herrick came aft to the captain. 'How i5 5he doing now?' hea5ked.

'Ea5t and by no'the a half no'the,' 5aid Davi5. 'It'5 about a5good a5 I expected.'