. The Viking blood; a story of seafaring. cessary sea-time in to qualify. Another year or twofishing and he would go skipper—fishing in the summer andrunning fish and lumber to the West Indies in winter. Hewould be skipper, if all went well, by the time he wastwenty, and when he attained his majority, he would askRuth to marry him. With these pleasant thoughts, hesquared up a rumpled rag mat on the floor of his futurehome, straightened a deal table and studied the effectof a cheap vase—he knew it was cheap and gaudy and hewanted to stow it away—on the sideboard—and after afinal look around, he
. The Viking blood; a story of seafaring. cessary sea-time in to qualify. Another year or twofishing and he would go skipper—fishing in the summer andrunning fish and lumber to the West Indies in winter. Hewould be skipper, if all went well, by the time he wastwenty, and when he attained his majority, he would askRuth to marry him. With these pleasant thoughts, hesquared up a rumpled rag mat on the floor of his futurehome, straightened a deal table and studied the effectof a cheap vase—he knew it was cheap and gaudy and hewanted to stow it away—on the sideboard—and after afinal look around, he gave a satisfied sigh and locked thefront door. At the front fence, he looked back at the cot-tage—nestling cosily amid a few dwarf spruce—and 296 THE VIKING BLOOD whistling ctieerfully he swung down the road ruminatingover a suitable name for his coming domicile. ShelterHarbor! Thats a good one, he murmured. I thinkvnother would like that. M-m! Shelter Harbor—thats thename, ior itll be a shelter harbor for the both of us!. CHAPTERTWENTY-FIVE THE West Winds crew arrived in Halifax on m ^Ion-day morning at the end of September to attend theinquiry, and the evidence was given by both Greeks had no fase. It was proved that they werenavigating at full speed in a dense fog; that a proper look-out was T)ot kept; and that sound signals weie not given atthe intervals required by the International Rules of theRoad for navigation in fog, mist, snow or heavy rain-storms. The Court severely condemned the absolute dis-regard for Articles 15 and 16 of the Rules, and the Commis-sioner was most scathing in his remarks regarding the con-duct of the Greeks in running away from the vicinity aftersinking the schooner. To the Greek master and watch-officers he said, Your conduct on this occasion was suchas to merit for you the scorn and contempt of all seafarers,and your action can only l}e characterized as one of themost despicable cow^ardice. If this Court had power to de
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