And I was frightened when I became conscious of the trend of my thought. The continual brutality around
me was degenerative in its effect. It bid fair to destroy for me all that was best and brightest in life. My
reason dictated that the beating Thomas Mugridge had received was an ill thing, and yet for the life of
me I could not prevent my soul joying in it. And even while I was oppressed by the enormity of my sin, -
for sin it was, - I chuckled with an insane delight. I was no longer Humphrey Van Weyden. I was Hump,
cabin-boy on the schooner Ghost. Wolf Larsen was my captain, Thomas Mugridge and the rest were
my companions, and I was receiving repeated impresses from the die which had stamped them all.
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