A NARROW ESCAPE 
asleep in his berth. He had been lying with 
his arm doubled and his head resting on his 
hand. A half inch nearer and the bullet 
would have entered his brain. 
As is always the case with narrow escapes, 
I, too, had a narrow escape, for that same 
bullet entered the partition on its death-deal- 
ing mission at identically the same spot where 
a few minutes previously my head had rested. 
Dr. Goodsell was quickly aroused, he at- 
tended Professor MacMillan, and in a short 
time he diagnosed the case as a "gun-shot 
wound." Finding no bones broken, or veins 
or arteries open, he soon had the Professor 
bandaged and comfortable. 
At the time of the accident to Professor 
MacMillan the ship was riding at anchor, but 
with insufficient slack-way, so in the after- 
noon, when the excitement had somewhat 
abated, Captain Bob decided to give the ship 
more chain, for a storm was imminent, and 
he gave the order accordingly. The boat- 
swain, in his haste to execute the order, and 
overestimating the amount of chain in the 
locker, permitted all of it to run overboard. 
We were in a predicament, with the storm 
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