5/33 "There she goes now, beating it away from us." "Of course it's all right, always was all right," Nishikanta bragged, as he wiped the sweat from his face and neck and looked with the others after the departing whale. "You're a fine brave lot, you are, losing your goat to a fish." "I noticed your face was less yellow than usual," Grimshaw sneered. "It must have gone to your heart." Captain Doane breathed a great sigh. His relief was too strong to permit him to join in the squabbling. "Now there's the real thing as a man. |