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Some of my rage had gone out of me in my fight to windward in the gale's teeth; but when I saw John close by me there it all came back to me. For half a minute the thought was in my head to run him down and sink him -- and I had the wind of him and could have done it. Even in my rage, though, I could not play a coward trick like that on him; and before I could make any other plan up he set me in the way of one himself.
"I'm making for the Wreck Gat," he sung out. "Give me a lead in, George -- 'tis better known to thee than to me."