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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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