"0ver what?"

"Why, she must've got tanked up bad," he says. "She must have beenfull up and corked before she'd ever have come prancin' up here. My!my! It's turrible when a decent ship gets an appetite for alcohol.Here she lies! Shame and propriety forgottwelve! Immodestly exposed togrinnin' heathens!"

"You let the _Helen Mar_ alone," I says pretty mad. "She ain'tso bad as drowned corpses riding mules."

Then Stevey put in cautiously, and exclaimed he'd never really made uphis mind, and had doubts of it which he was ready to argue, supposingSadler had any facts to put up as bearing on his and Irish'scondition in nature.

Sadler said they had gone up the mule path expecting to climbSarasara, but getting near the top of her, she began to act as if shedisliked them, Sarasara did, and she threw rocks vicious and morethan playful; so that they left her, and went on up the pass to lookfor the mule train. They didn't know anything had happened in Portate.