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TOM WAS PRECIPITATED DOWN, LEAVING ALICE TENSE AND GASPING
thing else, but what it's been an honest one — and now "
"Now, Dad?" pressed the girl.
"Now, when I'm hard put, he comes with his diabolical suggestions — offers me five hundred dollars for every d — n Ching I land without being spotted. He knows I can do it, Alice — he knows no one 'd ever suspect me — and God knows we need the money!"
"We need honesty more, Dad," the girl told him firmly; "even if we do lose the Caroline and our home, we'll lose them clean-handed — we wont make the sea ashamed of us. And we'll have each other — you and Jim and I."
"That's what I told him," the Captain replied, a bit ruefully; "that's what I told him."
"Jim," said Alice that night, as she sat with her brother while he smoked his nightly pipe, "we've got to keep our weather-eye open — you and I. And keep on teaching me how to send 'wireless' messages, brother — something tells me I will need it."
The following night, when Alice
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and Jim returned from the schooner, where they had been experimenting with the "wireless" instrument on board, they found their father in a highly jovial state of mind.
"The Caroline's ordered," he said, "for quite a cruise — I've had some applicants for the crew today, but they were a rough-looking set, so I didn't engage them — but it's luck, isn't it?"
' ' Right-o ! ' ' agreed Jim. But Alice looked dubious.
"It isn't any of Allen's doings, is it, Dad?" she queried.
"Of course not, child," her father replied somewhat testily. "You seem to see the finger of Allen in everything, 'stead of the finger of God."
"Well, I rather think," said Alice, quietly, "that where smugglers are, God is not!"
However strong a woman's intuition may be, it cannot guide the men who follow the call of the sea — that call comes first. And so it was that Captain Rawley and Jim set forth the following day to board the