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Here the chronicle ended. Little did Michael Burns know he would

never write in it again. He went to St. John's, as he had said,

and completed his business in time to return home the day of the

race instead of the day after.

The second race was never sailed, for Code Schofield received a

telegram from St. John's, offering him a big price for a quick

lighterage trip to Grande Mignon, St. John being accidentally out

of schooners and the trip urgent.

Though loath to lose the race by default, the money offered was

too good to pass by, and Code had made the trip and loaded up by

nightfall. It was then that he had met Michael Burns, and Burns

had expressed his desire to go home in the May so as to watch her

actions in a moderate sea and gale.

Neither he nor the May ever saw dry land again. Only Code of the

whole ship's company struggled ashore on the Wolves, bruised and

half dead from exposure.