. St. Nicholas [serial] . tow you all right, replied Jack, ifyoull pass me a hawser. You wont move sovery fast, but I can get you there. Well, that 11 be a salvage job, said CaptainJordan. Whats your figure? Jack blinked. What s a fair price? heasked. Well, theres no sign of the tug, and if wekeep on drifting the way we re headed, we 11land up on Big Popple Beach before wont kick at five hundred dollars. Jack. There was a gasp from Rodney, and Jackblinked again. Then he said, in a businessliketone. Let me have that hawser. Only, if Istart towing you, I want to finish the job. Glad to ha
. St. Nicholas [serial] . tow you all right, replied Jack, ifyoull pass me a hawser. You wont move sovery fast, but I can get you there. Well, that 11 be a salvage job, said CaptainJordan. Whats your figure? Jack blinked. What s a fair price? heasked. Well, theres no sign of the tug, and if wekeep on drifting the way we re headed, we 11land up on Big Popple Beach before wont kick at five hundred dollars. Jack. There was a gasp from Rodney, and Jackblinked again. Then he said, in a businessliketone. Let me have that hawser. Only, if Istart towing you, I want to finish the job. Glad to have you, replied Captain Jordan,who was by no means heartbroken at the pros-pect of running up a bill again his , like everybody else with whom SimonBarker had dealings, the captain of the Graceand Ella had been a victim of Barkers mean-ness. Most of the gear on the schooner waslittle better than junk. To wring a new set ofsails out of her owner was one of the hardesttasks in the world, and it was just the same. IF SHE AINT QUICK, SHE WONT BE MUCH USE, REPLIED CAPTAIN JORDAN 717 718 THE MYSTERY OE THE SEA-LARK [June, with halyards, spars, and everything elseaboard. Captain Jordan was convinced that theloss of the masts was due to Barkers parsi-mony, and he argued that the latter was onlypaying for his own niggardliness. CHAPTER VI. SALVAGE. The task which Jack had undertaken was notso formidable as he feared it might prove. Theend of a manila hawser was cast to him. Thishe made fast to the quarter-bitts, and then heheatled due east to clear the end of Greenportbreakwater. When once she felt the strain ofthe hawser, the little Sea-lark tugged andfretted, for she had a dead weight of severalhundred tons at her heels, and for a few min-utes that weight seemed to be anchored to thebottom of the ocean. But the steady pull ofthe sloop presently began to tell; the schoonermoved sluggishly, reluctantly, and before longthe Sca-lark had enough way on to make asteady three knot
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