16/25 As you will agree, there was no time to be lost if the _Martha_ was to be got off. It is a bad reef, and any considerable sea would knock her bottom out. You settle down here, skipper, and rest up and get the fever out of your bones. When the _Flibberty-Gibbet_ comes back, you'll take charge again, of course." After Dr.Welshmere and the _Apostle_ departed and Captain Oleson had turned in for a sleep in a veranda hammock, Sheldon opened Joan's letter. SHELDON,--Please forgive me for stealing the _Flibberty-Gibbet_. |