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Updated: May 29, 2025
Kneeling in the flood that swashed from bow to stern, he bailed vigorously until the boat was fairly clear. "No use wearing ourselves out trying to keep her head to it with the oar!" said he. "I'm going to rig a drug!" Directly under Percy's arms, as he sculled, was a trawl-tub containing their purchases at Matinicus. These Jim tossed into the stern. Taking the tub, he crept forward.
"I'm afraid she's coming too near for comfort," said Jim, anxiously. "She might run us down and never know it. Lots of fishermen have gone that way. Ship that oar in the scull-hole. I'm going to haul in the drug." He lifted the trawl-tub aboard and sprang quickly aft. "We'll know pretty quick whether she's likely to pass ahead or astern. We can't count on being seen.
This he discharged while the cook ran a trawl-tub to the truck. It was the prearranged signal for Pete Ellinwood to come in. As Code waited he had no doubt that smoke was from a revenue cutter or cruiser from Halifax with his arrest warrant. There was a stiff westerly breeze, and Code, glancing up at the cloud formations, saw that there would be a beautiful racing half-gale on by noon.
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