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CAPTAIN WILLIAM PHIPPS was as eager as a boy, now that he had definitely settled on the purpose which had for its object the quest of the sunken treasure. Therefore he and Adam and the beef-eaters worked unceasingly to prepare the brig, "Captain Spencer," for the cruise to the Bahamas.
What with provisioning the craft, enlisting more trustworthy men for the voyage and refitting a somewhat depleted and inefficient arsenal, Phipps waxed brusque and impatient. He had desired to get away from Boston not later than Saturday afternoon, but as the tasks before them had been tackled by Adam and the rest of them on Friday morning, the worthy Captain's ambition to be on the sea on the Sabbath-a day for which he had little liking-was vain. Saturday night therefore approached and Phipps fumed, for he could not so outrage the Puritans' sense of things Godly as to sail on Sunday, wherefore the departure had perforce to be postponed till Monday morning.