f when it's burning,"

grunted

ink I'd hesitated some about shipping on her,

Merriwell, with absolute coolnes

erious manner. They say the 'Eagle' is hoodooed and the captain knows

. They are ignorant, as a rule, a

Mr. Slush ignor

e to size him up

rest of the voyage," said Jack. "What if there was

d Browning. "A match touched to a powd

with the rest of

are desperate fellows and ready to do almost anything to injure them. The steamer might b

rate enough to do that kind of a tric

n of escaping. Then I have known men desperate enough to com

y about this vessel and cargo is

now that the captain has been worried. I have no

anxious, for it's certain he cannot

at the tab

N

re is such a thing as an unaccountable explosion. A heavy sea must cause motion or friction in the ca

f worrying about things that may happen. It's

p still about the nature of th

ill about that all r

red somebody who was leaning over the rail and

s individual. "Oh, my! oh, my! How bad I feel! Next that com

y; "and he is sicker than ever. He's

opened the door near

h-er-moon

"But it is if I swallowed it.

omes up red tonig

n. "Don't talk to me! Let me die without torturing m

rer about the moon, dodged back into th

oximity of his amused friends, hu

lked up

that you are heeding

ned Harry.

e waters!' You are doing

ied to say in a fierce manner, but his fierceness w

ching little poem about the man who stepped on a banana peel? Never did? Why, th

solemnly

along one

ely as

upon a ba

t 'banana' w

e a still mor

nts to hasten my death!" he said.

per across your breast, same as I do,"

f writing paper across

of ginger ale to settle y

le, and they've turned my stomach wro

ect relaxation, and not try to

ng else but perfect relaxation," cam

cabin and disappeared on hi

g followed, but Fra

ing disaster. In every way he tried to overcome anything like superstition, but he remembere

he muttered, as he walked forward. "I feel as if something