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The flood which poured into the mouth of Kill Van Kull soon caught my boat, and the head-tide was changed to a favorable current which carried me in its strong arms far into the salt-water strait, and I reached West New Brighton, along the high banks of which I found my haven of rest.
"Miss Effingham!" said Paul, so eager that he suffered the tiller-line to escape him. "These are frightful cries! Shall we never be rid of them!" "If it depended on me on either of us they should distress you no more. The boat is slowly entering the inlet, but has to struggle with a head-tide. The wind baffles, and is light, or in ten minutes we should be out of danger."
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