Dan'l shook his head. "Not with this gale, sir.... We're going away...."

Noll came to his feet, cat-like. "By God, you're all cowards. I'll bring

her in. I'll bring her in, I say...." He shook Faith away, went up to

the deck with Dan'l at his heels. The _Sally_, riding high as whalers

do, was reasonably dry; but she was fighting desperately in the gale,

racking her rigging. The wind seemed to clear Noll's head; he looked

about, aloft.... Bellowed an order to get sail on her....

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