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? ? ? ? 'Oh, believe me, my anger means nothing; I could not hurt a fly,' I smiled back bitterly. 'And the worst of it is, he knows it. You are right. 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. 'That is, you and I will live aboard, friendly or not with Wolf Larsen.'

? ? ? ? 'It's childish,' I laughed, later, 'for him to do such things, and for me to grow angry over them, for that matter.'

? ? ? ? But my heart smote me when we climbed aboard and looked at the havoc he had done. The shears were gone altogether.


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