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36 - Sea Wolf by Jack London · Sea Wolf

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  Speaker 1: The Sea Wolf by Jack London, chapter thirty six. For
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  Speaker 1: two days maudern I ranged the sea and explored the
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  Speaker 1: beaches in search of the missing masts. But it was
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  Speaker 1: not till the third day that we found them, all
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  Speaker 1: of them, the shears included, and of all perilous places
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  Speaker 1: in the pounding surf of the grim southwestern promontory, and
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  Speaker 1: how we worked. At the dark end of the first day.
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  Speaker 1: We returned exhausted to our little cove, towing the main
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  Speaker 1: mast behind us, and we had been compelled to row
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  Speaker 1: in a dead calm, practically every inch of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Another day of heartbreaking in dangerous toil saw us in
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  Speaker 1: camp with the two top masts to the good. The
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  Speaker 1: day following I was desperate, and I rafted together the
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  Speaker 1: fore mast, the fore and main booms, and the four
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  Speaker 1: and main gaffes. The wind was face, and I had
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  Speaker 1: thought to tow them back under sail, but the wind baffled,
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  Speaker 1: then died away, and our progress with the oars was
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  Speaker 1: a snail space. And it was such dispiriting effort to
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  Speaker 1: throw one's whole strength and weight on the oars, and
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  Speaker 1: to feel the boat checked in its forward lunch by
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  Speaker 1: the heavy drag behind was not exactly exhilarating. Night began
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  Speaker 1: to fall, and to make matters worse, the wind sprang
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  Speaker 1: up ahead. Not only did all forward motion cease, but
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  Speaker 1: we began to drift back and out to sea. I
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  Speaker 1: struggled at the oars till I was played out. Poor Maud,
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  Speaker 1: to whom I could never prevent from working to the
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  Speaker 1: limit of her strength, lay weakly back in the stern sheets.
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  Speaker 1: I could row no more. My bruised and swollen hands
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  Speaker 1: could no longer close on the oar handles. My wrists
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  Speaker 1: and arms ached intolerably, and though I had eaten heartily
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  Speaker 1: of a twelve o'clock lunch, had worked so hard that
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  Speaker 1: I was faint from hunger. I pulled in the oars
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  Speaker 1: and bent forward to the line which held the toe.
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  Speaker 1: But Maud's hand leaped out restrainingly to mine. What are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do, she asked in a strained, tense voice.
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  Speaker 1: Cast it off, I answered, slipping a turn of the rope,
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  Speaker 1: but her fingers closed on mine. Please don't, she begged.
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  Speaker 1: It is useless. I answered, Here is night and the
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  Speaker 1: wind blowing us off the land. Let's think, Comfrey, if
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  Speaker 1: we cannot sail away on the ghost. We may remain
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  Speaker 1: for years on the island, for life, even if it
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  Speaker 1: has never been discovered. All these years, it may never
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  Speaker 1: be discovered. You forget the boat we found on the beach,
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  Speaker 1: I reminded her. It was a seal hunting boat. She replied,
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  Speaker 1: and you know perfectly well that if the men had escaped,
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  Speaker 1: they would have been back to make their fortunes from
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  Speaker 1: the rooker. You know they never escaped. I remained silent, undecided. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: she added haltingly, it's your idea, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: see you succeed now. I could harden my heart as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she put it on a flattering personal basis.
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  Speaker 1: Generosity compelled me to deny her better years on the
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  Speaker 1: island than to die tonight or tomorrow or the next
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  Speaker 1: day in the open boat. We are not prepared to
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  Speaker 1: brave the sea. We have no food, no water, no blankets, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Why you did not survived the night without blankets. I
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  Speaker 1: know how strong you are. You are shivering now. It
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  Speaker 1: is only nervousness, she answered. I am afraid you will
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  Speaker 1: cast off the masts in spite of me. Oh please, please, Humphrey, don't,
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  Speaker 1: she burst out a moment later, and so it ended
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  Speaker 1: with the phrase she knew had all power over me.
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  Speaker 1: We shivered miserably throughout the night. Now and again I
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  Speaker 1: fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.
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  Speaker 1: How Maud could stand it was beyond me. I was
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  Speaker 1: too tired to thrash my arms about and warm myself.
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  Speaker 1: But I found strength time and again to shave her
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  Speaker 1: hands and feet to restore the circulation. And still she
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  Speaker 1: pleaded with me not to cast off the masts. About
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  Speaker 1: three in the morning, she was caught by a cold cramp,
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  Speaker 1: and after I had rubbed her out of that, she
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  Speaker 1: became quite numb. I was frightened. I got out the
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  Speaker 1: oars and made her row, though she was so weak
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  Speaker 1: I thought she would faint at every stroke. Morning broke
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  Speaker 1: and we looked long in the growing light for our island.
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  Speaker 1: At last it showed small and black on the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: fully fifteen miles away. I scanned the seat with my glasses.
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  Speaker 1: Far away in the southwest, I could see a dark
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  Speaker 1: line on the water, which grew even as I looked
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  Speaker 1: at it. Fair wind, I cried, in a husky voice
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  Speaker 1: I did not recognize as my own. Maud tried to reply,
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  Speaker 1: but could not speak. Her lips were blue with cold,
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  Speaker 1: and she was hollow eyed. But oh, how bravely her
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  Speaker 1: brown eyes looked at me, how piteously brave. Again I
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  Speaker 1: fell to chafing her hands, and to moving her arms
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  Speaker 1: up and down and about until she could thrash them herself.
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  Speaker 1: Then I compelled her to stand up, and though she
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  Speaker 1: would have fallen had I not supported her, I forced
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  Speaker 1: her to walk back and forth the several steps between
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  Speaker 1: the thwart and the stern sheets, and finally to spring
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  Speaker 1: up and down. Oh, you brave, brave woman, I said,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw the life coming back into her face.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that you were brave? I never used to,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, I was never brave till I knew you.
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  Speaker 1: It is you who have made me brave, Nor I
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  Speaker 1: until I knew you, I answered. She gave me a
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  Speaker 1: quick look, and again I caught that dancing, tremulous light
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  Speaker 1: and something more in her eyes. But it was only
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  Speaker 1: for the moment. Then she smiled. It must have been
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  Speaker 1: the conditions, she said, But I knew she was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and I wondered if she likewise knew. Then the wind
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  Speaker 1: came fair and fresh, and the boat was soon laboring
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  Speaker 1: through a heavy sea toward the island. At half past
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  Speaker 1: three in the afternoon we passed the southwestern promontory. Not
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  Speaker 1: only were we hungry, but we were now suffering from thirst.
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  Speaker 1: Our lips were dry and cracked, nor could we longer
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  Speaker 1: moisten them with our tongues. Then the wind slowly died down.
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  Speaker 1: By night it was dead calm, and I was toiling
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  Speaker 1: once more at the oars, but weakly. Most weekly. At
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  Speaker 1: two in the morning, the boat's bow touched the beach
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  Speaker 1: of our own in her cove, and I staggered out
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  Speaker 1: to make the painter fast. Maud could not stand, nor
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  Speaker 1: had I strength to carry her. I fell in the
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  Speaker 1: sand with her, and when I had recovered, contented myself
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  Speaker 1: with putting my hands under her shoulders and dragging her
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  Speaker 1: up the beach to the hut. The next day we
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  Speaker 1: did no work. In fact, we slept till three in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, or at least I did, for I awoke
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  Speaker 1: to find Maud cooking dinner. Her power of recuperation was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: There was something tenacious about that lily frail body of hers,
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  Speaker 1: a clutch on existence which one could not reconcile with
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  Speaker 1: its patent weakness you know, I was traveling to Japan
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  Speaker 1: for my health, she said, as we lingered at the
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  Speaker 1: fire after dinner and delighted in the movelessness of loafing.
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  Speaker 1: I was not very strong. I never was. The doctors
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  Speaker 1: recommended a sea voyage, and I chose the longest. You
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  Speaker 1: little knew what you were choosing, I laughed. But I
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  Speaker 1: shall be a different woman for the experience, as well
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  Speaker 1: as a stronger woman, she answered. And I hope a
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  Speaker 1: better woman. At least I shall understand a great deal
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  Speaker 1: more of life. Then, as the shirt day waned, we
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  Speaker 1: fell to discussing wulf Larsen's blindness. It was inexplicable, and
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  Speaker 1: that it was grave. I instant his statement that he
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  Speaker 1: intended to stay and die on Endeavor Island when he
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  Speaker 1: strong man, that he was loving life as he did,
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  Speaker 1: except at his death it was plain that he was
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  Speaker 1: troubled by something more than mere blindness. There had been
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  Speaker 1: his terrific headaches, and we were agreed that it was
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  Speaker 1: some sort of brain breakdown, and that in his attack
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  Speaker 1: he endured pain beyond our comprehension. I noticed, as we
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  Speaker 1: talked over his condition that Maud's sympathy went out to
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  Speaker 1: him more and more. Yet I could not but love
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  Speaker 1: her for it. So sweetly womanly was it. Besides, there
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  Speaker 1: was no false sentiment about her feeling. She was agreed
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  Speaker 1: that the most rigorous treatment was necessary if we were
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  Speaker 1: to escape, though she recoiled at the suggestion that I
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  Speaker 1: might sometime be compelled to take his life to save
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  Speaker 1: my own, our own, she put it. In the morning,
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  Speaker 1: we had breakfast and were at work by daylight. I
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  Speaker 1: found a light cadge anchor in the forehold, where such
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  Speaker 1: things were kept, and with the deal of exertion, got
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  Speaker 1: it on deck and into the boat. With a long
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  Speaker 1: running line coiled down in the stern, I rowed well
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  Speaker 1: out into our little cove and dropped the anchor into
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  Speaker 1: the water. There was no wind, the tide was high,
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  Speaker 1: and the schooner floated, casting off the shorelines. I catched
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  Speaker 1: her out by main strength, the windlass being broken till
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  Speaker 1: she rode nearly up and down to the small anchor,
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  Speaker 1: too small to hold her in any breeze. So I
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  Speaker 1: lowered the big starboard anchor, giving plenty of slack, and
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  Speaker 1: by afternoon I was at work on the windlass. Three
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  Speaker 1: days I worked on that windless least of all things
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  Speaker 1: was I a mechanic, And in that time I accomplished
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  Speaker 1: what an ordinary machinist would have done in as many hours.
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  Speaker 1: I had to learn my tools to begin with, and
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  Speaker 1: every simple mechanical principle which such a man would have
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  Speaker 1: had at his finger ends I had likewise to learn.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of three days I had a
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  Speaker 1: windless which worked clumsily. It never gave the satisfaction the
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  Speaker 1: old windlass had given, but it worked and made my
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  Speaker 1: work possible. In half a day I got the two
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  Speaker 1: topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before.
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  Speaker 1: And that night I slept on board and on deck
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  Speaker 1: beside my work. Maud, who refused to stay alone ashore,
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  Speaker 1: slept in the forecastle. Wolf Larsen had sat about, listening
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  Speaker 1: to my repairing the windows, and talking with Maud in
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  Speaker 1: me upon indifferent subjects. No reference was made on either
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  Speaker 1: side to the destruction of the shears, nor did he
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  Speaker 1: say anything further about my leaving his ship alone. But
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  Speaker 1: still I had feared him, blind and helpless and listening,
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  Speaker 1: always listening, and I never let his strong arms get
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  Speaker 1: within reaching me. While I worked on this night, sleeping
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  Speaker 1: under my beloved shears. I was aroused by his footsteps
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  Speaker 1: on the deck. It was a starlight night, and I
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  Speaker 1: could see the bulk of him dimly as he moved about.
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  Speaker 1: I rolled out out of my blankets and crept noiselessly
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  Speaker 1: after him in my stocking feet. He had armed himself
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  Speaker 1: with a draw knife from the tool locker, and with
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  Speaker 1: this he prepared to cut across the throat halliards I
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  Speaker 1: had again rigged to the shears. He felt the halliards
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  Speaker 1: with his hands and discovered that I had not made
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  Speaker 1: them fast. This would not do for a draw knife,
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  Speaker 1: so he laid hold of the running part hove taught
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  Speaker 1: and made fast. Then he prepared to saw a cross
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  Speaker 1: with the draw knife. I wouldn't if I were you,
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  Speaker 1: I said quietly. He heard the click of my pistol
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  Speaker 1: and laughed Hello. He said, I knew you were here
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  Speaker 1: all the time. You can't fool my ears. That's a lie,
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  Speaker 1: wolf Larsen, I said, just as quietly as before. However,
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  Speaker 1: I am aching for a chance to kill you, so
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and cut. You have the chance always, he sneak.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and cut, I threatened ominously. I'd rather disappoint you.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed, and turned on his heels and went aft.
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  Speaker 1: Something must be done, Humphrey, Maud said next morning, when
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  Speaker 1: I had told her of the night's occurrence. If he
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  Speaker 1: has liberty, he may do anything. He may sink the
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  Speaker 1: vessel or set fire to it. There is no telling
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  Speaker 1: what he may do. We must make him a prisoner.
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  Speaker 1: But how I asked, with a helpless shrug, I dare
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  Speaker 1: not come within reach of his arms, and he knows that,
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  Speaker 1: so long as his resistance is passive, I cannot shoot him.
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  Speaker 1: There must be some way, she contended. Let me think
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  Speaker 1: there is one way, I said grimly. She waited. I
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  Speaker 1: picked up a seal club. It won't kill him, I said,
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  Speaker 1: and before he could recover, I'd have him bound hard
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  Speaker 1: and fast. She shook her head with a shudder. No,
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  Speaker 1: not that. There must be some less brutal way. Let
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  Speaker 1: us wait. But we did not have to wait long,
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  Speaker 1: and the problem solved itself in the morning. After several trials,
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  Speaker 1: I found the point of balance in the foremast and
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  Speaker 1: attached my hoisting tackle a few feet above it. Maud
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  Speaker 1: held the turn on the windlass and coiled down while
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  Speaker 1: I heaved. Had the windlass been in order, it would
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  Speaker 1: not have been so difficult as it was. I was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to apply all my weight and strength to every
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  Speaker 1: inch of the heaving. I had to rest frequently. In truth,
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  Speaker 1: my spells of resting were longer than those of working.
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  Speaker 1: Maud even contrived at times when all my efforts could
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  Speaker 1: not budge the windlass, to hold the turn with one
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  Speaker 1: hand and with the other to throw the weight of
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  Speaker 1: her slim body to my assistance. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: an hour, the single and double blocks came together. At
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  Speaker 1: the top of the shears. I could hoist no more.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the mast was not swung entirely inboard. The
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  Speaker 1: butt rested against the outside of the port rail, while
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  Speaker 1: the top of the mast overhung the water far beyond
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  Speaker 1: the starboard rail. My shears were too short. All my
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  Speaker 1: work had been for nothing. But I no longer despaired
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  Speaker 1: in the old way. I was acquiring more confidence in
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  Speaker 1: myself and more confidence in the possibilities of windlasses, shears
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  Speaker 1: and hoisting tackles. There was a way in which it
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  Speaker 1: could be done, and it remained for me to find
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  Speaker 1: that way. While I was considering the problem, Wolf Larsen
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  Speaker 1: came on deck we noticed something strange about him at once.
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  Speaker 1: The indecisiveness or feebleness of his movements was more pronounced.
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  Speaker 1: His walk was actually tottery. As he came down the
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  Speaker 1: port side of the cabin at the break of the poop,
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  Speaker 1: he reeled, raised one hand to his eyes with a
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  Speaker 1: familiar brushing gesture, and fell down the steps, still on
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  Speaker 1: his feet, to the main deck, across which he staggered,
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  Speaker 1: falling and flinging out his arms for support. He regained
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  Speaker 1: his balance by the steerage companionway and stood there dizzily
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  Speaker 1: for a space when he suddenly crumpled up and collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: his legs bending under him as he sank to the deck.
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  Speaker 1: One of his attacks, I whispered to Maud. She nodded
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  Speaker 1: her head, and I could see sympathy warm in eyes.
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  Speaker 1: We went up to him, but he seemed unconscious, breathing spasmodically.
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  Speaker 1: She took charge of him, lifting his head to keep
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  Speaker 1: the blood out of it, and dispatching me to the
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  Speaker 1: cabin for a pillow. I also brought blankets, and we
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  Speaker 1: made him comfortable. I took his pulse. It beat steadily
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  Speaker 1: and strong, and was quite normal. This puzzle I became suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: What if he should be feigning this, I asked, still
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  Speaker 1: holding his wrist. Maud shook her head and there was
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  Speaker 1: reproof in her eyes. But just then the wrist I
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  Speaker 1: held leaped from my hand, and the hand clasped like
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  Speaker 1: a steel trap about my wrists. I cried aloud, in
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  Speaker 1: awful fear, a wild, inarticulate cry, and I caught one
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  Speaker 1: glimpse of his face, malignant and triumphant, as his other
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  Speaker 1: hand compassed my body and I was drawn down to
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  Speaker 1: him in a terrible grip. My wrist was released, but
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  Speaker 1: his other arm, passing around my back, held both my
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  Speaker 1: arms so that I could not move. His free hand
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  Speaker 1: went to my throat, and in that moment I knew
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  Speaker 1: the bitterest foretaste of death earned by one's own idiocy.
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  Speaker 1: Why had I trusted myself within reach of those terrible arms?
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  Speaker 1: I could feel other hands at my throat. They were
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  Speaker 1: Maud's hands, striving vainly to tear loose the hand that
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  Speaker 1: was throttling me. She gave it up, and I heard
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  Speaker 1: her scream in a way that cut me to the soul,
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  Speaker 1: for it was a woman's scream of fear and heartbreaking despair.
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  Speaker 1: I had heard it before, during the sinking of the Martinez.
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  Speaker 1: My face was against his chest and I could not see,
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  Speaker 1: but I heard Maud turn and run swiftly away along
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  Speaker 1: the deck. Everything was happening quickly. I had not yet
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  Speaker 1: had a glimmering of unconsciousness, and it seemed that an
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  Speaker 1: interminable period of time was lapsing before I heard her
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  Speaker 1: feet flying back, and just then I felt the whole
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  Speaker 1: man sink under me. The breath was leaving his lungs,
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  Speaker 1: and his chest was collapsing under my weight. Whether it
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  Speaker 1: was merely the expelled breath or his consciousness of his
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  Speaker 1: growing impotence, I know not. But his throat vibrated with
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  Speaker 1: a deep groan. The hand at my throat relaxed, I breathed.
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  Speaker 1: It fluttered and tightened again. But even his tremendous will
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  Speaker 1: could not overcome the dissolution that assailed it. That will
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  Speaker 1: of his was breaking down. He was fainting. Maud's footsteps
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  Speaker 1: were very near. As his hand fluttered for the last
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  Speaker 1: time and my throat was released. I rolled off and
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  Speaker 1: over to the deck on my back, gasping and blinking
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  Speaker 1: in the sunshine. Maud was pale, but composed. My eyes
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  Speaker 1: had gone instantly to her face, and she was looking
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  Speaker 1: at me with mingled alarm and relief. A heavy seal
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  Speaker 1: club in her hand caught my eyes, and at that
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  Speaker 1: moment she followed my gaze down to it. The club
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  Speaker 1: dropped from her hand as though it had suddenly stung her,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same moment my heart surged with a
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  Speaker 1: great joy. Truly she was my woman, my mate, woman
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  Speaker 1: fighting with me infore me, as the mate of a
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  Speaker 1: caveman would have fought all the primitive in her, aroused
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  Speaker 1: forgetful of her culture, hard under the softening civilization of
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  Speaker 1: the only life she had ever known. Dear woman, I cried,
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  Speaker 1: scrambling to my feet. The next moment she was in
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  Speaker 1: my arms, weeping convulsively on my shoulder. While I clasped
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  Speaker 1: her close. I looked down at the brown glory of
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  Speaker 1: her hair, glinting gems in the sunshine, far more precious
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  Speaker 1: to me than those in the treasure chests of kings.
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  Speaker 1: And I bent my head and kissed her hair softly,
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  Speaker 1: so softly that she did not know. Then sober thought
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  Speaker 1: came to me, After all, she was only a woman
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  Speaker 1: crying her relief. Now that the danger was passed in
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  Speaker 1: the arms of her protector, or of the one who
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  Speaker 1: had been endangered. Had I been father or brother, the
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  Speaker 1: situation would have been no wise different. Besides, time and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: place were not meet, and I wished to earn a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: better right to declare my love. So once again I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: softly kissed her hair as I felt her receding from
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: my clasp. It was a real attack this time, I said,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: another shock, like the one that made him blind. He
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: feigned at first, and in doing so, brought it on.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Maud was already rearranging his pillow. No, I said, not yet.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Now that I have him helpless, helpless he shall remain.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: From this day we live in the cabin, Wilf Larsen
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: shall live in the steerage. I caught him under the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: shoulders and dragged him to the companionway. At my direction,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Maud fetched the rope, placing the under his shoulders, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: balanced him across the threshold and lowered him down the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: steps to the floor. I could not lift him directly
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: into a bunk, but with Maud's help, I lifted first
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: his shoulders and head, then his body, balanced him across
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the edge and rolled him into a lower bunk, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: this was not to be all. I recollected the handcuffs
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: in his state room, which he preferred to use on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: sailors instead of the ancient and clumsy ship irons, so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: when we left him, he lay handcuffed hand and foot.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: For the first time in many days, I breathed freely.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I felt strangely light as I came on deck, as
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: though a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: felt also that Maud and I had drawn more closely together,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and I wondered if she too felt it. As we
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: walked along the deck side by side, to where the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: stalled fore mast hung in the shears end of chap
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're thirty six