| infernal sloop? Cold chills began to chase each other up and down the spine of Eph Somers. He was not, ordinarily, an imaginative youth, but just now the gruesome thought that had entered his mind persisted there. He began to pace the platform deck in deep agitation. Anything wrong, sir? questioned the marine sentry, halting and throwing his rifle over to port arms. | ejaculated Eph Somers. For a moment or two his face was a study in bewilderment. Mighty strange things have been happening all through this cruise, Eph muttered, half aloud. Especially happening to Jack Now, the two of them go aboard that sloop, and immediately after the boat puts out to sea in the dead of night. What if Jack and Hal have been shanghaied on that | the boat coming alongside. It brought two more marines, one of them a corporal. There were also two sailors. A cadet midshipman commanded them. Mr. Somers, reported the cadet midshipman, I am not intended to displace you from the command of this boat. I am here only with definite instructions in case you succeed in overhauling that white sloop. What began Eph. Then he paused, with a |
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