The Blue Clipper — page 43: what you’re looking at

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a CHAPTER VIII. IN THE RENDEZVOUS. ea. “Tne moment the cuiter’s boat was overturned, Mary felt herself going down under water. She threw up her arms. she did so she felt her hand grasped. Nearly suffocated pe submersion, she was now unable to cry out. By the Lee get she saw a rough, bearded face; then felt herself 1 round the waist, and drawn along through the water yan expert swimmer. _ When they reached land she was enabled, by the light of alf-extinguished lantern on the ground, to make out the x “son who had saved her from drowning. He was short, “o = groad-shouldered, with a low forehead and sunken eyes—a ing-looking person. “Papa! Oh, where is papa?” cried the young girl, glane- ing anxionsly round her; “ has he not been saved, too?” “Fm afraid not,” answered the man, roughly; “ who is palates ae = seen Reanens his shoulders. > “Perhaps some more may be saved in a little while; or at st brought here, prisoners !” Ea By the noise she now heard out in the water, Mary realized t the boat’s party had been attacked, a fact which she, in her ‘usion, had not hitherto known,thinking that the man who di saved her was one of the cutter’s crew ; that he had come off sent from that vessel by the Hestenant: pipened to leave the spot, but her companion confronted _ 3 Not so fast, mise The captain may have something to say i » you.” 2 sound of persons wading shoreward soon was heard. SE isinon-wes conducted to the beach by three men, among them the smuggler, captain Malo. The girl, who had been released by her companion, teward the captain. meas OP eh eee a a comic books. com = ye