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Mar Mar 23 22:10:02 CET 2010
D touched Mayo's wits. XXXI ~ THE BIG FELLOW HIMSELF Will had promised his Sue that this trip, if well ended, Should coil up his ropes and he'd anchor on shore. When his pockets were lined, why his
life should be mended, The laws he had broken he'd never break more.
--Will Watch. They needed food, lease-money
for their hired equipment was due, and the dependents at Maquoit must be looked after. Pride and
hope had inspired the crew at Razee to salvage
the _Conomo_ intact. Material removed from her would immediately become junk to be valued at junk prices, instead of being a valuable and active asset on
board. But there was no other resource in sight. No word
came from Captain Wass; and Mayo had put little confidence in that possibility, anyway. There was nothing else to do--they must sell off something on which they could realize quickly. In the estimation of many practical men this
procedure would have been a warrantable
makeshift, its sole drawback being a sacrifice of values. But
to the captains on Razee it seemed like the beginning of complete
surrender; it was the first step toward
the dismantling of the steamship. It was making
a junk-pile of her, and they confessed to themselves that
they would probably be obliged to keep
on in the work of destruction. In the past their bitterest toil had been spiced with the hope of big achievement; the work they now set themselves to do was melancholy drudgery. They brought
the _Ethel and May_ alongside and loaded into her the anchors, chains, spare cables, and several of the life-boats. Mayo took charge of the expedition to the main. The little schooner, sagging low with her burden, wallowed up the harbor of Limeport just before sunset, one afternoon. Early June was abroad on the seas and the pioneer yachtin
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