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Completely forgetful of the fact that he was soaking from head to foot Cathcart stood there watching Mostyn's movements with the deepest interest. There could be no doubt what was happening. Mostyn was deliberately cutting away the cable with the intention of parting company with the Queen of the Mist and thereby to a dead certainty casting the Psyche on the Flat Sands.
Nor could Mostyn have possibly been in ignorance of the fact of the peril; on the other hand he was deliberately courting it. His knowledge of the North Sea was fairly good; he had been yachting here for too many years not to know where trouble lay.