He had just finished this when he felt a draught of cold air, and looking
up, saw an ugly face peering down on him from the cabin door.
"Hello, you're down there, are you?" called out the man; "how do you like
it?"
"It's getting rather warm," answered Jim, hoping to make the best of a bad
business.
"If you find it too hot, come on deck and air yourself."
The lad accepted the invitation, and hastily ascended the few steps, his
chief object being to learn where he was.
Looking about in the gloom, he observed a ship under full sail on the
right, and a little farther off one on the left. In the former direction
he thought he discerned a faint dark line close to the water, which he
supposed showed where the shore lay.
"Then we are putting out to sea," was his conclusion, while he shivered in
the keen wind which swept over the deck.
The schooner had her mainsail and foresail up, both bellying far outward
under the impulse of the wind, while the hull keeled far over to the right
in response, and the foaming water at the bow told that she was making her
way at high speed toward her destination, wherever that might be.
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