toward thomas a constant attitude w was composed of equal parts of insult contempt chapter x with w � if my be those relations which t between master or yet between king and i am to no more than a toy and he mc no more than a a toy my is to amuse and so long h i all goes well but let him become bored or let im have one of his black moods come upon him and it once i un from cabin to while at tbe same time i am fortunate to escape with my life and a � body he loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon eh there is not a man aboard but hates or fears him is there a man whom he does not despise he with the tremendous power that is in him and that seems never to have found adequate expression in works he is as would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of ghosts this loneliness is bad enough in itself but to iti ike it worse he is oppressed by the melancholy of the race knowing him i review the old ith clearer understanding the white fair i l wi ages who created that terrible were m fibre as he the of the li i is no part of him when he laughs it is from a humor that is nothing else than ferocious but ho l ui he is too often sad and it is a sadness as j teaching as the roots of the race it is the race i c the sea wolf the sadness which has made the race sober clean lived and moral and which in thb latter connection has among the english in the church and mrs in point of fact the chief vent to this has been religion in its more but th of such religion are denied wolf his brutal will not permit it so when hi blue moods come on nothing remains for him but to b devilish were he not so terrible a man i could om times feel sorry for him as instance three mornings ag when i went into his state room to fill his water bottle an came unexpectedly upon him he did not see me hi head was buried in his hands and his shoulders were ing as with sobs he seemed torn by mighty grief as i softly withdrew i could hear groaning god god i god not that he was upon god it was a mere but it came from hi soul at dinner he asked the hunters for a remedy for ache and by evening strong man that he was he wa half blind and about the cabin i ve never been sick in my life he said as guided him to his room nor did i ever have a except the time my head was healing after having laid open for six inches by a bar for three days this blinding headache lasted and h suffered as wild animals suffer as it seemed the way oi ship to suffer without without sympathy alone this morning however on entering his state room t make the bed and put thin s in order i found him and hard at work table and were tlie sha i and on a large transparent sheet i and square in hand he was what ap tu be a scale � f some sort or other he me i m just the finishing touches want to sec it work hut what is it asked a saving device or reduced to simplicity he answered from a child will be able to a ship no more long calculations all you need is one star in the on a dirty night to know instantly where you arc look plate the transparent scale on this star map revolving the scale on the north i on the scale i ve worked out the circles of the of all i do is to put it on a star the scale till it is opposite those figures on the map underneath and i there you are the ship s precise there was a ring of triumph in his voice and his eyes clear blue this morning as the sea were sparkling with you must be well up in i said where did you go to school never saw the inside of one worse luck was the answer i had to dig it out for myself and why do you think i have made this he demanded abruptly dreaming to leave on the sands of time he laughed one of his l n mocking laughs not at all to get it lo make money from it to in with ill ni lu in while other men do the work that s my i v also i have enjoyed working it out the joy murmured i guess that s what it ought to be called i the sea wolf another way of expressing the joy of life in that it is alive the triumph of movement over matter of the quick over the dead the pride of the because it is and i threw up my hands with helpless of his and went about making the bed he continued lines and figures upon the transparent scale it was a task requiring the utmost and precision and i could not but admire the way he tempered his strength to the and delicacy of the need when i had finished the bed i caught myself looking at him in a fascinated sort of way he was certainly a handsome man � beautiful in the masculine sense and again with never failing wonder i remarked the total lack of or wickedness or in his face it was the face i am convinced of a man who did no wrong and by this i do not wish to be misunderstood what i mean is 