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Adventure

CHAPTER IV--JOAN LACKLAND
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Again he looked into it.

The men were dark-skinned, and larger than Solomon Islanders, but the woman, he could plainly see, was white.

Who she was, and what she was doing there, were thoughts that drifted vaguely through his consciousness.

He was too sick to be vitally interested, and, besides, he had a half feeling that it was all a dream; but he noted that the men were resting on their sweeps, while the woman and the steersman were intently watching the run of seas behind them.
"Good boatmen," was Sheldon's verdict, as he saw the boat leap forward on the face of a huge breaker, the sweeps plying swiftly to keep her on that front of the moving mountain of water that raced madly for the shore.

It was well done.


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