Beadle's Dime Novels No. 87: On the Deep — page 17: what you’re looking at

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AN EVIL-LOOKING FACE. 19 arms drooping over the wheel. Loring’s first thought was that he had been attacked with a fit of apoplexy. He laid him gently upon the deck with one arm, while, putting down the wheel with the other; but, the next moment a cry of horror escaped him. A handkerchief about the man’s neck having become loosened, his throat was revealed covered with blood, and disfigured by an ugly- PRE gash near the wind- pipe | _— CHAPTER II. BLOCK GOES TO RECONSIDER. Tat the unfortunate man had not inflicted the stab with his own hand, the second mate became convinced, after he had examined the sheath-knife attached. to the sailor’s belt. This, the only weapon in his possession, showed no trace of blood. Who, then, was the author of the crime ? © Surely no man in the ship, for Ringbolt had been loved and respected by all. There certainly was some strange mystery connected with the deed. It must have been perpetrated in & very stealthy manner, since Loring had known nothing of it antil now, though he had been sitting within ten yards of the binnacle. He quitted the spot and summoned the four men of the watch ; but they could give him no clue to the fearful secret. They hung over the dead body in speechless astonish- ment. : The young man now stationed a sailor at the wheel, and _ moved toward the companionway, intending to rouse the cap- tain, when he encountered Grace as she came hurriedly from the cabin. She stopped on seeing him, and he placed himself ‘before her, to screen the body of Ringbolt from her view. He noticed that she was pale and agitated, that the hand which she placed upon his arm trembled like a leaf. “ Something has occurred to alarm you,” he cried. “Yes ;” she replied, with a shudder, “I have seen a face, an evil Hooking face, peering at me through the cabin-window. = “ How long ago was that " comliclbooks.com