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Raftmates

CHAPTER V
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The bewildering glare had come from her roaring furnaces; and had not their doors been thrown open just when they were, she would have crashed at full speed into the raft, with such consequences as can easily be imagined.

As it was she was barely able to sheer off in time, and a score of voices hurled back angry threats at the supposed crew of the raft, whose neglect to show a lantern had so nearly led to death and destruction.
So long as he could detect the faintest twinkle of light from the rapidly receding boat, or hear the measured coughings of her exhausted steam, Winn stood gazing and listening, regardless of the rain that was drenching him to the skin.

He was overwhelmed by a realization of his situation.

That steamboat had told him as plainly as if she had spoken that the _Venture_ was not only afloat, but had in some way reached the great river, and was drifting with its mighty current.

He had no idea of how long he had thus drifted, nor how far he was from home.


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