In my wild days I should have used terms, sir--oh, distressing! oh, harrowing! To-night I'm ready for a thingumbob on 'the blue, the fresh, the ever free.' Ah! entrancing! Oh-h-h! bewitching!" Freeman sailed his craft and threaded the lines of the dragging trawlers with stealthy speed.

A hail came at last.
"Yacht ahoy! Have you still got the doctor aboard ?" The weird answer rang amid the shrill treble of the gaffs.
"Then come aboard of us if you can.

It's bad." Two men were down in the boat in a moment, and the yacht edged her way toward the smack.

When Lewis and Tom went down below, the burly comedian's true character soon became apparent.

A handsome young fellow was twisting and gasping on the floor in pain cruel to see.
"He've eat somethin's disagreed with him, sir.