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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "Never mind, skipper. You can take a vacation on pay." Sheldon
spoke with more assurance than he felt. "If Miss Lackland, who is
my partner, has seen fit to take charge of the Flibberty-Gibbet,
why, it is all right. As you will agree, there was no time to be
lost if the Martha was to be got off. It is a bad reef, and any
considerable sea would knock her bottom out. You settle down here,
skipper, and rest up and get the fever out of your bones. When the
Flibberty-Gibbet comes back, you'll take charge again, of course."
After Dr. Welshmere and the Apostle departed and Captain Oleson had
turned in for a sleep in a veranda hammock, Sheldon opened Joan's
letter.
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