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Rh seemed, had accepted him as a friend, though doubtless only because good fortune had brought him to her at a moment of desperate peril. But how her returning brother would accept him remained to be seen; and, as the ketch's anchor cable ran out and Keith watched the little craft swing into the wind with her mainsail flapping, that problem occupied his thoughts.