Beadle's Dime Novels No. 94: The Mad Skipper — page 48: what you’re looking at

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60 THE MAD SKIPPER. “Where? You wean New London, I suppose.” “ Blast ye, who said New London ?” “ Beggin’ your pardon, sir, I thought that was what you meant. "His mind is sartainly crazed now,” he added in 4 whisper to Frank; “it’s a gone case—poor captain !” “Hark ye, old man?” cried the skipper, laying his hand upon Ben’s shoulder, “ I think I once heard ye say something about having cruised off the coast of Norway.” “You are right, sir.” “flo! ho! then you must have seen it!” “What !” “The maelstrom, fool !—the great maelstrom /” “ We wasn’t near enough to the coast for that.” “ But ye heard it roar !—tell me that ye heard it poar!” thu.idered the captain, his eyes flashing wildly. “ No, sir; we—” | “ You lie! you lie! You must have heard it! You did hear it! Round and round it goes, crashing, bursting, and bubbling, with the noise of a hundred thunderbolts! Ho! hu! a grand ruin it makes of all who come near it, carrying tuem down, duwn, down, forevermore !” And with a wild laugh, he suddenly broke from Frank’s ‘grasp, and rapidly descending the rigging, made his way to his berth. “How wild, how strange he looked,” remarked Lilian, who, still seated in the state-room with her father, had noticed the captain’s haggard face as he rushed past them ; ; “he is cer- tainly mad !” “ His mind és deranged,” replied the doctor, “ but you need not feel at all frightened on that account, for I understand that Onoolo is an excellent seaman, and perfectly capable of taking care of the sbip.” “ Qur poor captain should be watched narrowly,” said Lili- an, “or he may take a notion, some time, to jump overboard.” “True enough. And I now remember to have noticed a life-buoy lashed to the after part of the round-house. As soon as the gale abates, I shall go on deck and make an examina- tion of the article, to make sure that it is perfectly safe and sound. If it is not, I shall suggest to Onoolo the propriety of having a better one made.” Ccomiclbooks.conn