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Excerpt: ... sighed. "Just the opposite from me all the way through. Well, I'm glad you wouldn't make up. Serves her right." "Probably best for everybody," said Percival. "Now it's your turn. How about yourself!" "Well," she said with what struck him as the strangest irrelevance, "our scheme seems to be working with the captain. We've got him guessing. He told me last night I was not to go to the prow with you again." "Why not?" "He thinks you like me too much." "What do you think?" Percival bit his lip the moment he had asked it, but leaning there on the railing, with her dancing eyes on a level with his own, and nothing else on the entire horizon, it was difficult to keep the situation in hand. "I think you are getting a bully tan," she said, scrutinizing him closely; "most men get a red nose or else they get all speckled around the edges. Yours looks like a nice crust on an apple pie." "I do tan rather decently," he said; "but you haven't told me what you think." "What about?" "About my liking you too much." "I think the captain exaggerated." "He couldn't exaggerate that." "But how can you like me when I'm all wrong?" "I like you because of your possibilities. You've probably never met any one before who understood you as I do. Quite extraordinary the way you've improved since you came on board." "And you've got fourteen days more to work on me! Do you think anybody will recognize me when I get back to Wyoming?" "Now you are chaffing!" complained Percival. "You never take me seriously." "Then you want me to be serious, and believe everything you say?" He paused in awed contemplation of the direful consequences if she should, but for the life of him he couldn't stop. "I want you to believe me," he said tenderly, "when I say that you've been most awfully sweet, and that I wouldn't give half a sovereign for any other girl's chances if you were within ten miles. I want you to know that I consider you the prettiest girl I've ever seen, and the most