BEFRIENDING EACH OTHER The afternoon sea-breeze had sprung up and was now rioting in from the Pacific.

Angel Island was fast dropping astern, and the water-front of San Francisco showing up, as the _Dazzler_ plowed along before it.

Soon they were in the midst of the shipping, passing in and out among the vessels which had come from the ends of the earth.

Later they crossed the fairway, where the ferry steamers, crowded with passengers, passed to and fro between San Francisco and Oakland.

One came so close that the passengers crowded to the side to see the gallant little sloop and the two boys in the cockpit.