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By RUDYARD KIPLING Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY HARVEY CHEYNE'S father was immersed in amassing more money, his mother was busy with her nerves, and so we have Harvey, at fifteen years, the insufferable type that most grown males want to heave a brick at on sight. He was a passenger on this ocean liner, and she was crossing the Grand Banks in a fog. He came into the smoking-room, saying: "You can hear the fish-boats squawking all around us. Wouldn't it be great if we ran one down!" He asked for a cigarette. Somebody with a diabolical sense of humor passed him a thick, oily cigar. Harvey lit it up and went on deck. He began to feel queer, but he had bragged of never being seasick; so now he went aft to the turtle-deck, and he was still there, wrestling with the cigar and not caring much what happened, when a long gray sea swung out of the fog and took him overboard.