[The Moon Pool by A. Merritt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Moon Pool CHAPTER VII 7/12
Behind us the forward light of the Brunhilda glided and the binnacle lamp threw up a faint glow in which her black helmsman's face stood out mistily. O'Keefe had looked curiously a number of times at our tow, but had asked no questions. "You're not the only passenger we picked up today," I told him.
"We found the captain of that sloop, lashed to his wheel, nearly dead with exhaustion, and his boat deserted by everyone except himself." "What was the matter ?" asked O'Keefe in astonishment. "We don't know," I answered.
"He fought us, and I had to drug him before we could get him loose from his lashings.
He's sleeping down in my berth now.
His wife and little girl ought to have been on board, the captain here says, but--they weren't." "Wife and child gone!" exclaimed O'Keefe. "From the condition of his mouth he must have been alone at the wheel and without water at least two days and nights before we found him," I replied.
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