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His first drink went over in a gulp and Jol had the second ready for him when he set down the empty glass. Just as Nord was crooking his elbow on the second drink, a small, rat-faced man sidled up to him at the bar.

In writing this tale I had in mind not alone to please my young readers, but also to give them a fair picture of life on the ocean as it is to-day,

Sic ’em, Mitzi.