Show SYNOPSIS George McAusland was 38 years old when he sailed from America to undertake his post as a missionary In the Fiji A crime he had Ul a fit of excitement bad shattered all bis confidence In He felt forced to avoid pretty Mary who boarded the ship at She was en route to visit her parents who were missionaries on Gilead Mary was attracted by George's attempts to avoid One day George accidentally fell overboard Mary unhesitatingly dove Into the sea to rescue who falls In love with her When the boat approached her home on Gilead they learned that Mary's parents had both George volunteered to take charge of the mission and asked Mary to be his wile She accepted his clumsy and they left the ship to live in her former home on the The scanty dress of the natives shocked George at but he soon became reconciled to their customs Mary discovered that a sailor friend of George had come there to help George and Mary if they needed him Their peaceful life was Interrupted one day when a ship stopped in the In search of pearls They sec the pearl divers attacked and their schooner sunk by a pirate The pirales head their boat toward the near their George sends Mary inland for safety and walks down to the beach alone and Natives carry back to Mary hours shot through the Natives killed the pirates that night and set their boat The long-awaited the arrived Mary was told that its captain had and that his Richard and Peter were now In charge as captain and first I She liked but was told bv Peter I that he publicly laughed at her affection I George was a sick man when the Ven-I arrived George agreed to leave the island when he saw that the epidemic among the natives was caused by his consumptive condition A native gave Mary a small bag of pearls as a fare- well The attitude of the crew to warn Peter bothered so she decided to find out If he was responsible for the death of a seaman who had been killed while CHAPTER X Continued 11 Richard said noticed a lot of trouble more than by trying to be responsible for other people's you seriously mean to bribe your men to obedience by turning them loose like wolves on these helpless George's eyes were on their just as you played on my weakness at told me 1 was killing the islanders in order to make me come away Richard said after a moment I was Maybe I'd best have let ou stay He said at last do as you but I'll have to run the ship my He turned Peter had joined them in time to hear the last takes his job too He's all blown up with Mary ignored Richard's And even if he he must do as he inks Come down to the cabin with But George declined to do not shut my he not a So they stayed on deck that day while the work of provisioning the ship went They could not be ready to depart that and the boats stayed ashore well into the night Next morning they made to sea Mary hoped that once they were away George would forget his anger at but he did and for days after they left the the few minutes they all spent together at the table were made awkward by her husband's wrathful and by Richard's defensive The stop for provisions had altered not only the humor of the crew but the very appearance of the They had taken on tremendous of fresh fruits A huge cask lashed to the port rail was full of green Bunches of bananas hung under the boat house and wherever else room could be The potato room where Tommy Hanline slept was so full of yams and plantains and breadfruit that Tommy had to crawl over them to reach his bunk Another change took place in the routine aboard after they left the George remembered his and with the air of one expecting a asked Richard's permission to hold a Sunday morning service on deck Richard and the thing was Mary suspected that Corkran was sible for the quiet and respectful I demeanor of the men when they as-Bern but when George began to he held them facing an had a spiritual authority and dignity that were fine to She while she lis that her attitude toward her husband had always been her tenderness a little conde She told him afterward how proud she and Richard also spoke to George gratefully and appreciative- ly She hoped the constraint between them would be But George did not relent at and matters were still thus tight and strained in the on the day when at last they sighted a whale A whaler may kill and save in the course of a voyage two or three dozen and she may kill oth and lose them by si king or in a sudden Most of r a captures are but now and then a whale makes What happened to the today was one i of those extraordinary and isolated phenomena which become and It would take its place in whaling One of the sailors a New Bedford man named called to the after whale on the port j bout two miles off There was at that a quick and Instant stir upon the Mat Forbes at a word from Richard ran halfway up the mizzen ratlines and shouted to the men aloft to make haste with the topgallant Richard carne to the port rail to look off across the leaden Mat Forbes spoke quietly to Richard on the deck below at Cap n Richard right Clear boats and stand by to Feet moved along the deck to Mat descending to the said moving this Richard looked at the weather to the He watched the watching the come to and fall off whale drew and even from the decks they could see now his efforts to beat off his He surged to and flukes now and then rising and as the fight came steadily nearer they could hear the thrash of the the sigh of the the broken water when he drove this way and standing with George and Mary although his men were ready by his boat moved restlessly something wrong with he he'd have driven them off by Might be he's hurt or sick or Maybe he's got an iron in He licked his lips in a nervous Richard said just behind but we'll try for him Ready to The still made a little He called to the cro-jack The men leaped at Mat's he's a crooked Peter He'll be a and if he busts a the water's full of His voice cracked as he and Richard looked at him briefly Forbes and I will he decided keep Peter cried bump the way he's The was almost motion the whale now close aboard Mary had been watching sick and ashamed at what she but at his word she turned to look and saw the close rolling blindly on its back to and she saw the thrashing body of a great shark caught in its jaws and cut in She cried out in awe and terror at the sight CHAPTER XI The whale righted itself and came quartering toward their bow in a sudden Richard leaped forward into the waist as though with his own hands to fend the creature and an instant later It shouldered against the looking saw the great black bulk in the and the slender gray shapes of the sharks in attendance George clung hard be side and Peter He'll sink Richard ran aft toward where his boat hung The whale drew off circling lifting his head as though in an effort to locate the ship for a new Richard called Mr get the Brand Sock a bomb into him if he comes near the ship again His boat struck the water with a smooth The boats were carried to Richard's farthest Mat's Mary felt young Tommy Hanline hanging to her his small hands tight as a Mat's boat hit the but Richard had already darted away from the the long oars bending as the men put into them every ounce of strength Mary for a moment the boat would meet the whale head and she heard a voice scream a and knew it was her own Then she saw Richard swing the steering oar in a great and the whaleboat swerved on a pivot to let the whale slide and instantly it darted in again till she thought the bow would ride U on that huge body just Richard's great voice was like a trumpet She saw Big knee braced in the clumsy the harpoon drive it in and and before the boat veered off he sank the second Big Pip swept the loose coils of the box warp He and changed scrambling over the who bent low over the thwarts to let them By the time Richard was in the bow and Big Pip at the steering the whale saw the boat riding and lunged toward and the men swung hard on the and Big Pip dodged out of the whale's path and in Mary saw Richard drive home the deep into black Mary saw only a smother of action too swift to but the men on the and In Mat Forbes' watching more knowing without seeing what went on in that fury of torn saw that Richard was as wild with the heat of battle now as was the For after a desperate minute or two of this in-and-out he closed with his Under his strong the men hauled in on the line till the boat was close against the whale's Richard reached far over the bow to grip the line and draw the boat further forward along the whale's and while close Richard drove the lance deep and deep searching for that huge reservoir in which the whale stores fresh blood for his long stays under water and which call the The whale could not bite nor could its flukes strike the But if it rolled toward they must be crushed under its body and left helpless in the water Big Pip braced and as much a part of the boat as though he were nailed to drove his lance Tommy screamed- he But the whale rolled away from the not toward and in so its under parts were for a moment The whale rolled over and over in a smother away from and suddenly its flukes lifted high and then it was and the tossed water began to quiet where it had Tommy Mary could see the line now snaking out over the bow of the the bow sagging downward and then rising with a jerk as Joe kept a strain on the line around the yielding only when he Richard in the bow was leaning forward to look straight down into the lance in hand The bow of Richard's boat rose suddenly as the strain upon the line was Big Pip took line hand over Richard spoke over his not turning his watching the water under he said Then men Suddenly he Hard The oars bent like the boat darted backward like a Then for a moment from where Mary stood on the boat and men were alike blotted out of hidden behind a vast black column with a blunt end which rose ponderously out of the the white mouth the bent jaw opening and closing in a vicious futility That black mass that was the whale's head rose and slow and slower till it was above the level of the till Mary thought it would never stop ascending It seemed to poise and hang for a and then ponderously toppled parting the water like a and she saw the boat beyond the flukes Then the whale and its spout now was a thick crimson and Mary saw strike a sharp blow at the line with a saw its free end disappear She sick with sudden disappointment- he's let it Tommy Hanline told proud of always cuts before the flurry unless there's another boat that might get fast He don't take chances when there's no need of The spout was a fountain of blood as the whale again began to but there was no long Too much of the strength was already Ii a little lay seemed to turn half on its laboriously righted said Tommy and he looked up at Mary with shining She tried to speak and found her throat dry and She it Did Richard kill at her looked at her but Tommy said in high That was pretty wasn't she not seeing her 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