of making voyages which will bring them more money of becoming the of ships of finding fortunes � in short of being ib a better position for on their fellows of having ih night in good and somebody else to do the dirty work you and arc just like them there is no except that wc have eaten more and better i eating them now and you too but in the past you eaten more than i have you have slept in soft and worn fine clothes and eaten good meals who those beds and those clothes and those meals so you you never made anything in your own sweat too on an income which your father earned you like a bird down upon the � ad them of the fish they have caught you are � m wish a crowd of men who have made what they call who are masters of all the other men ind eat the food the other men and like � � � h tv s vou wc ir the w cl tl v tl y made the clothes but they shiver in rags and ask you the lawyer or business agent who handles your money fur a but that is beside the matter i cried the sea wolf not at all he was speaking rapidly now and were flashing it is and it is life what use or sense is an immortality of is the end what is it all about you have made food yet the food you have eaten or wasted might t saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the i but did not eat it what immortal end did you or did they consider yours and me what t your boasted immortality amount to when your life i foul of mine you would like to go back to the l which is a favorable place for your kind of r it is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship w my and keep you i will i make or break you you may die to day this week next month i could kill you now with a blow of my for you are a miserable but if we are what is the reason for this to be as you ai have been all our lives not seem to be just the tl for to be doing again what s it all why have i kept you here � because you are stronger i managed to out � but why stronger he went on at once with his because i am a bigger bit of the ment than you don t you see don t you see � but the of it i protested i ag ee with you he answered then why n at all since moving is li without moving and b i part of the there would be no bu and there it is � we want to live and move though have no reason to because it happens that it is the na of life to live and move to want to live and move were not for this life would be dead it is because of life that is in you that you dream of your immortality the sea wolf i t u in you is alive and to go on being an eternity of i he abruptly turned on his heel and started forward he i al the of the and called mc to bim t by the way bow much was it that got away � he a ke i one hundred and eighty five dollars sir i answered he nodded ills head a moment later as i started down the stairs to lay the for dinner i beard bim loudly cursing some men chapter vi by the following morning the storm had blown itself quite out and the ghost was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind occasional light airs were felt however and wolf the constantly his eyes ever searching the sea to the from which direction the great trade wind must blow the men were all on deck and busy preparing their various boats for the season s hunting there are seven boats aboard the captain s and the six which the hunters will use three a hunter a boat and a boat compose a boat s crew on board the the boat and are the crew the hunters too are supposed to be in command of the watches subject always to the orders of wolf all this and more i have learned the ghost is considered the in both the san and victoria in fact she was once a private and was built for speed her lines and � though i know nothing about such things � speak for themselves johnson was telling me about her in a short chat i had with him during yesterday s second dog watch he spoke with the k ve for a fine craft such as some men feel for horses he is greatly disgusted with the outlook and i am gi en to understand that wolf bears a very reputation among the captains it was the the f that johnson into for the voyage i h� u already beginning to i as be told me ghost is an eighty ton of i a fine n od cl her beam or width is i feet and her h a little over ninety feet a lead of but unknown weight makes her very i while she carries an immense spread of canvas i from deck to the of the is something over a hundred feet while the with its is eight or ten feet shorter i am giving these so that the size of this little floating world which holds twenty two men may be appreciated it is a very a a speck and i marvel that men should dare to venture the sea 