Beadle's Dime Novels No. 94: The Mad Skipper — page 78: what you’re looking at

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“80 THE MAD SKIPPER. “Now, then, away we go!” shrieked the skipper, as the | vessel gathered headway upon her new course. “ Away we go! not a rag to be taken in unless I give theorder! Steady there at the helm! We are bound for the wild whirlpool of the north !” “Frank, you hear him! you hear what he says?” whis- pered Lilian, turning pale. “Yes;” and he looked much puzzled. “It is certainly very strange that he should change the ship’s course. We wiil never get to New London, the way we are going now.” “ He spoke of a whirlpool. It must be that he intends to sink the ship.” “What is that you say about sinking the ship ?” inquired Doctor Claret, suddenly emerging from the companion-way. “T am surs there is no danger of that. The weather is not stormy at all.” “The captain, uncle—the captain has changed the ship’s course, so that we are now going away from New London instead of going toward it.” “ Why, really, you don’t say! And you think he will event- ually sink the vessel?” . “T should judge so from what he says.” _ “Nonsense, he only raves. He has probably changed his course because he was obliged to on account of some cliange in the wind!” “No,” auswered Frank, “the wind is in the iit direction to carry us toward our destined port.” “ Well then, this must certainly be attended to, Captain,” he added, springing to the side of that worthy, and touching him upon the arm, “1 would inquire why you have changed our course ?” “So that we can hear it roar and see it whirling round and round. So that we can go down into: its yawning 5 tee down—down—down !’ “Yawning mouth? Why, cartain, you don’t intend to carry us into the j jaws of any sea-m. onster, do you ?—~any oda whale or creature of that kind 2” “Ho! ho! the mouth I speak of is many fathoms deep ; ud it yawns so wide—so monstrously wide, that it can carry his ship and all her crew into its whirling, roaving depths ! COMIC OOKS.COMn