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THE fog had lifted sufficiently to enable the crew of the _Puffin_ to command a radius of vision of about a hundred yards -- and within that distance was a steamship, bows on.
By the rule of the road at sea it was her place to give way to the little sailing craft, but she made no effort to do so, neither did she indicate by a blast on her syren which course she was about to take.