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? ? ? ? It seemed centuries, possibly it was no more than ten minutes, that the beating continued. And when Johnson could no longer rise, they still continued to beat and kick him where he lay.

? ? ? ? 'Easy, Johansen; easy as she goes,' Wolf Larsen finally said.

? ? ? ? But the beast in the mate was up and rampant, and Wolf Larsen was compelled to brush him away with a back-handed sweep of the arm, gentle enough, apparently, but which hurled Johansen back like a cork, driving his head against the wall with a crash. He fell to the floor, half stunned for the moment, breathing heavily and blinking his eyes in a stupid sort of way.

? ? ? ? 'Jerk open the doors, Hump,' Larsen commanded.

? ? ? ? I obeyed, and the two brutes picked up the senseless man like a sack of rubbish and hove him clear up the companion-stairs, through the narrow doors, and out on deck. Louis, his boat-mate, gave a turn of the wheel and gazed imperturbably into the binnacle.

? ? ? ? Not so George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy.


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