16/23 If he has destroyed the shears, I shall do nothing except begin over again." "But I'll stand my watch on board hereafter," I blurted out a moment later. "And if he interferes--" "But I dare not stay ashore all night alone," Maud was saying when I came back to myself. "It would be so much nicer if he would be friendly with us and help us. We could all live comfortably aboard." "We will," I asserted, still savagely, for the destruction of my beloved shears had hit me hard. |