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Out by Bradden Point there stood a little dandy-rigged craft, tacking lazily to and fro, with her mains'le all shiny-yellow in the sunset.
It was a relief to him to have something, however small, which would distract his mind from the events of the night. "That will do, sir," the skipper cried, and, leaning over the bows, he seized the anchor which Ezra had hauled up, and tumbled it with a crash on the deck. "Now, Jarge, with three reefs in her we might give her the mains'le."
When he returned from the saloon, he found the chief officer examining the chart. "Do you think we have any chance of making Concepcion Strait?" he asked, pointing to the doubtfully marked channel which separates Hanover and Duke of York Islands. "If we set the mains'le we might bear up a bit." "Try it." "Huh," said Mr. Boyle, and he was off again into the spindrift.
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