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  • And yet, a few minutes later, when he had gone below, I noticed Mr. Pike enter the chart-house.

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  • We leaned in the lee of the chart-house and went no farther.

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  • At the head of the stairs, passing along the tiny hall to go out the lee door of the chart-house, I glanced into the chart-room.

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  • Mr. Mellaire came aft, and they met beside me in the lee of the chart-house.

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  • After several paces up and down, and a brief pause to watch Nancy and several men shift the weather cloth from lee to weather, I strolled aft to the chart-house.

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  • I followed its direction, on between the chart-house and the port-jigger shrouds, and on across a mountain sea that was very vague in the moonlight.

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  • He took no notice whatever of me, although I, on my way to the lee of the chart-house, stood at his shoulder a full minute, offering him a chance to speak.

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  • In the chart-house hall I heard Mr. Pike, who had already covered the length of the bridge from the for'ard-house, shouting:

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  • Even Charles Davis, drenched and shivering, hung on beside me to the brass ring-handle of the chart-house door.

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  • Sheltering by the chart-house, I saw the moon appear.

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