and by--Let _go_ the anchor," and clink, clink, old Chips
knocks out the pin, and away goes the spare anchor and greased chain
into a five mile deep of God's sea. As I said, they were in the Indian
Ocean.

Well--there was the devil, making a grab here and a grab there, and
the slushy chain just slipping through his claws, and at whiles a
bight of chain would spring clear and rap him in the eye.

So at last the cable was nearly clean gone, and the devil ran to the
last big link (which was seized to the heel of the foremast), and he
put both his arms through it, and hung on to it like grim death.

But the chain gave such a _Yank_ when it came-to, that the big link
carried away, and oh, roll and go, out it went through the hawsehole,
in a shower of bright sparks, carrying the devil with it. There is no
devil now. The devil's dead.

As for the old man, he looked over the bows watching the bubbles
burst, but the devil never rose. Then he went to the fo'c's'le scuttle
and banged thereon with a hand-spike.

"Rouse out, there, the port watch!" he called, "an' get my dinghy
inboard."

NOTES

THE DEVIL IN A NUNNERY

BY FRANCIS OSCAR MANN

According to a German legend, the devil is master of all arts, and
certainly he has given sufficient proof of his musical talent. Certain
Church Fathers ascribed, not without good reason, the origin of music
to Satan. "The Devil," says Mr. Huneker in his diabolical story "The
Supreme Sin" (1920), "is the greatest of all musicians," and Rowland
Hill long ago admitted the fact that the devil has all the good tunes.
Perhaps his greatest composition is the _Sonata del Diavolo_, which
Tartini wrote down in 1713. This diabolical master-piece is the
subject of Gerard de Nerval's story _La Sonate du Diable_ (1830).
While the devil plays all instruments equally well, he seems to prefer
the violin. Satan appears as fiddler in the poem "Der Teufel mit der
Geige," which has been ascribed to the Swiss anti-Papist Pamphilus
Gengenbach of the sixteenth century. In Leanu's _Faust_ (1836)
Mephistopheles takes the violin out of the hands of one of the
musicians at a peasant-wedding and plays a diabolical _czardas_, which
fills the hearts of all who hear it with voluptuousness. An opera _Un
Violon du Diable_ was played in Paris in 1849. _The Devil's Violin_,
an extravaganza in verse by Benjamin Webster, was performed the same
year in London. In his story "Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et