Beadle's Dime Novels No. 94: The Mad Skipper — page 64: what you’re looking at

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ad THE MAD SKIPPER. The other made a similar promise, and so both were. re- leased. In order to guard against treachery, however, the three friends removed the boat-hook and hatchet bayond their reach. CHAPTER VI. ONOOLO DISAPPOINTED. SLOowLy the night wore on. The occupants of the boat saw the shadows fade around them; and finally the rising sun tinted the fog. Soon alter, this began to roll away in lit- tle clouds, and broad patches of water and blue sky were dis- closed, Suddenly, one of the Kanakas uttered a glad shout, and pointed across the larboard bow ; and on looking in that direction, the rest were also overjoyed to see the topmasts of a ship looming up through an open space in the misty curtain] “ Ay, ay, it’s our own craft, sure enough !” exclaimed Ben. “T can’t mistake the cut of that main-topgallant sail.” He was right; for the fog about the vessel rapidly clear- ing, soon revealed the yellow hull of the Monongahela at the distance of less than a league from the boat. Old Ben sprung to the steering-oar; the rest took their places upon the thwarts, and the light craft was urged through the water with arrowy speed. As it glided alongside the ship, the sweet face of Lilian appeared at the quarter-rail, and a moment later her hands were clasped in those of Frank Harland. “Thank God! you are safe !” “ Yes,” he replied, “ and—” pe “ Allow me,” interrupted the doctor, springing toward him with a pill held between his thumb and forefinger, “ allow me to give you this! It will prove a sure preventive of the evils Which must result from the hardships you have suffered.” “ No, thank you,” answered Frank, laughing. “I have found a better preventive than your pill.” And he looked straight into Lilian’s eyes, “ Indeed, !” cried the doctor. “I hardly think so RoiRaRSO ER Com