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In a few minutes the vessel which Philip and Schriften had left was no longer to be discerned through the thick haze; the Phantom Ship was still in sight, but at a much greater distance from them than she was before. Philip pulled hard towards her, but although hove-to, she appeared to increase her distance from the boat. For a short time he paused on his oars, to regain his breath, when Schriften rose up and took his seat in the stern sheets of the boat. "You may pull and pull, Philip Vanderdecken," observed Schriften; "but you will not gain that ship -- no, no, that cannot be -- we may have a long cruise together, but you will be as far from your object at the end of it, as you are now at the commencement. -- Why don't you throw me overboard again? You would be all the lighter -- He! he!"
"I threw you overboard in a state of frenzy," replied Philip, "when you attempted to force from me my relic."