But such was the fury of the tempest that even with the big kites gone the Jasper B.continued to shake and quiver where she lay.

Speech was almost impossible on deck, but Cap'n Abernethy signed to Cleggett that he had something important to say to him.
The whole company adjourned to the cabin, and there, shouting to make himself heard, the Cap'n cried out: "Her timbers have been strained something terrible, Mr.Cleggett.

She ain't what I would call safe and seaworthy any more.

The' don't seem to be any danger of her sailin' off, but that's no sign she can't be blowed over onto her beam ends and sunk with all on board.

If you was to ask me, Mr.Cleggett, I'd say the time had come to leave the Jasper B." The anxiety depicted on the faces of the little circle about him might have communicated itself to a less intrepid nature.