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1 12|      upon the lake, perhaps a cable’s length to the northeast.
2 12|       quiet at the end of its cable. Not a light was on board;
3 12|     lay at the end of a short cable. As well as I could judge,
4 12|       and after loosening the cable, they would doubtless endeavor
5 12|       stopping to unloose the cable, they plunged overboard,
6 12|      Walker and I seizing the cable, pulled the black mass of
7 12|    knocked down by the flying cable. I was entangled by the
8 13|     when I was tangled in the cable. I should have been suffocated,
9 14| distance of twelve or fifteen cable lengths. The “Terror,” without