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There's bad blood there, as you know, and it wouldn't take much to bring about a scrap. "Not that I think that has happened," he went on, "because it isn't likely that Ditty's plans are far enough forward yet for him to show his hand. Still I may be wrong. I tell you what I think you'd better do. You can git around faster than I can with this old game leg of mine.
Drew had at first thought that the wound inflicted by Ditty's bullet was slight. But suddenly a deadly weakness came over him. He seemed to be falling into a stupor from which he tried desperately to save himself. Ruth was bandaging his wound when she noticed his growing faintness. She cried out in alarm. "Allen, dear, Allen!" she begged. "Rouse up! Don't faint!" "I I'm going, Ruth," he answered.
It required smart seamanship to get through that rushing raceway without capsizing; but, whatever Ditty's faults, he did not lack ability, and the work was done in a way that elicited an unwilling grunt of admiration from Tyke. In less than two hours the requisite soundings had been taken, and Ditty came to report. "Plenty of depth, sir," he reported. "No less than ten fathoms anywhere.
"What's milling in your brain, Tyke?" asked Captain Hamilton. "I've kept my eyes peeled, and I swear I haven't seen anything more to suggest treachery. Ditty's on his best behavior " "Yes; that's so," agreed Tyke. "But did you spy the men he took with him in the boat jest now, when he came in here to make soundings?" "I didn't notice," the captain confessed.
Ditty's orders, sir," replied the second officer. "The men got scared at the earthquake this morning, sir, and after that second quake they flatly refused to stay ashore. So Mr. Ditty let them go back to the ship." "But why didn't he leave the other boat's crew waiting for me?" asked the captain.
"Very well, sir," replied the mate, with a curious expression on his face. As he turned away, his one eye fell on Drew. They had not met since the fight two days before. They stared at each other for several seconds, until Ditty's eye fell before the concentrated fury in those of the young man. Ruth, who had witnessed the interchange of looks, put her hand lightly on Drew's arm.
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