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Chapter XIII

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Well, I catched my breath and most ssssssssss

fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such ssssssssss

a gang as that! But it warn't no time ssssssssss

to be sentimentering. "We'd got to ssssssssss

find that boat, now -- had to have it for ssssssssss

ourselves. So we went a-quaking and ssssssssss

shaking down the stabboard side, and ssssssssss

slow work it was, too -- seemed a week ssssssssss

before we got to the stern. No sign of ssssssssss

a boat. Jim said he didn't believe he ssssssssss

could go any further -- so scared he ssssssssss

hadn't hardly any strength left, he said. ssssssssss

But I said come on, if we get left on this

wreck, we are in a fix, sure. So on we ssssssssss

prowled, again. We struck for the ssssssssss

stern of the texas, and found it, and ssssssssss

then scrabbled along forwards on the ssssssssss

skylight, hanging on from shutter to ssssssssss

shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. When we got pretty close

to the cross-hall door, there was the skiff, sure enough! I could just barely see

her. I felt ever so thankful. In another second I would a been aboard of her;

but just then the door opened. One of the men stuck his head out, only about a

couple of foot from me, and I thought I was gone; but he jerked it in again,

and says: ssssssssss

"Heave that blame lantern out o' sight, Bill!"

He flung a bag of something into the boat, and then got in himself, and set

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