passage.
In which section of the passage does the author build tension surrounding WW?
(3) "7t's my opinion, doctor," said the captain in a low voice, that this is the last time you or I will ever be at sea, or
anywhere else, if our skipper don't look better after his men, for a more rascally crew I never set eyes on, and, from a
word or two I have heard dropped now and then, I feel sure some mischief is in the wind. Come aft with me to a place
where we ain't so likely to be overheard by eavesdroppers, and I'll tell you all about it."
(4) Will Osten was so much astonished at his friend's remark, that he followed him to the after part of the ship without
uttering a word, and there sat down on the taffrail to listen to what he had to communicate....
(5) "Doctor," said Captain Dall in a low whisper, taking Will Osten by the button-hole and bending forward until his eyes
were close to those of his young friend, "1 little thought when I set sail from England that, in a few weeks after, my good
ship the Foam would come a wreck an' sink to the bottom of the Pacific before my eyes. Still less did I think that I should
be cast on a coral island, have to fight [and] be saved at last by missionaries... Yet all this has happened within a few
months."
(6) At any other time Will Osten would have smiled at the solemn manner in which this was said, but there was something
in the hour, and also in the tone of his friend's voice, which tended to repress levity and raise a feeling of anxiety in his
mind
(7) "Well, captain," he said, "what has this to do with the present evil that you seem to apprehend?"
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