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Updated: May 12, 2025
"I was so young when she died that I don't remember her." "Father?" "I never saw much of him. He went to sea anyhow, he disappeared." "Oh!" Joe did not know what to say, and an oppressive silence, broken only by the churn of the Dazzler's forefoot, fell upon them. Just then Pete came out to relieve at the tiller while they went in to eat.
French Pete was uninjured from the fall overboard with the Dazzler's mast; but the sea-anchor, which had gone with him, had not escaped so easily. The gaff of the mainsail had been driven through it, and it refused to work. The wreckage, thumping alongside, held the sloop in a quartering slant to the seas not so dangerous a position as it might be, nor so safe, either. "Good-by, old-a Dazzler.
French Pete followed her admiringly, though he said ominously: "Some day, pouf! he go just like dat, I tell you, sure." A moment later the Dazzler's reefed jib was flung out, and she was straining and struggling in the thick of the fight.
He frowned, got up from where he had been sunning himself on top of the Dazzler's cabin, and kicked off his heavy rubber boots. Then he stretched himself on the narrow side-deck and dangled his feet in the cool salt water. "Now that 's freedom," thought the boys who watched him.
Once it freshened till the sloop was within a hundred yards of him, and then it dropped suddenly flat, the Dazzler's big mainsail flapping idly from side to side. "Ah! you steal ze skiff, eh?" French Pete howled at him, running into the cabin for his rifle. "I fix you! You come back queeck, or I kill you!"
"Short hawse," French Pete whispered to 'Frisco Kid, who went for'ard and dropped the anchor, paying out the slightest quantity of slack. The Dazzler's skiff was brought alongside, as was also the small boat in which the two strangers had come aboard. "See that that cub don't make a fuss," Bill commanded in an undertone, as he joined his partner in his own boat. "Can you row?"
The Reindeer leaped up in the air, pointing her nose to the sky till they could see her whole churning forefoot; then she plunged downward till her for'ard deck was flush with the foam, and with a dizzying rush she drove past them, her main-boom missing the Dazzler's rigging by scarcely a foot.
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