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"I should be if I had ever known him to fail to take care of himself," said Mrs. Carroll. "It's the other folks that had better look out," remarked Eddy, with perfect innocence, though would-be wit. He looked about for applause. Arms's eyes twinkled, but he bent over his plate solemnly. "Eddy, you are talking altogether too much," Anna Carroll said.
It was flat, presenting little surface to the wind, and when, working with feverish speed, aided by an electric launch, they had attached the cable to it, it sank so low that its place on the sea was indicated only by the short mast, capped with a streamer, which rose above it. When this work was completed a sigh of relief whistled through Captain Arms's huge whiskers.
Cosmo made the measurements with instruments, and announced that the result showed the substantial accuracy of Captain Arms's guess. "I suspected as much," he muttered. "Those tremendous downpours, which may have been worse elsewhere than where we encountered them, have increased the rise nearly seventy per cent, above what my gages indicated.
They were really nearer Ararat than they imagined, and Captain Arms's prediction narrowly missed fulfillment. Within a couple of hours after he had spoken a dark mass suddenly loomed through the dense air directly in their track.
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