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The Sea Wolf

By JACK LONDON Condensation by CLIFTON B. CARBERRY THE keen eyes of Wolf Larsen, master of the sealing-schooner Ghost, bound for Japanese poaching-grounds, spotted the bobbing head of Humphrey Van Weyden amid the waves of San Francisco Bay, into whose waters Humphrey had been thrown as a result of a shipwreck. A few moments more and Humphrey was aboard the Ghost.

Rescued, he faced his rescuer with thanks and a request to be put ashore. The skipper eyed him curiously. "What do you do for a living?" he asked. "I--I am a gentleman," Humphrey stammered. "Who feeds you?" "I have an income." Wolf Larsen's lips curled in a sneer. "You stand on dead men's legs. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly for three meals. You stay here as cabin-boy for the good of your soul. I'll make a man of you."