Chapter 9
Fill in the blanks
Captain Jaggery was frustrated because there wasn’t any ________. He kept sending his men out in search of it, but the sea remained like glass.
Charlotte was on the __________ deck speaking with __________, a young man who was trying to repair his ________________. Then his ___________ broke. Charlotte volunteered to get him another one, but she had to go to the __________________ to retrieve one. She had never been there and was __________ about going there. She looked for _________________ who might be able to get it for her. Unfortunately, he was not in the ________________.
Charlotte realized she would have to get it ______________. Before she entered the ______________, she heard __________________. It sounded like the men were planning something. She even heard her __________ mentioned. She knocked on the door and was _______________ to enter. After she did, she saw ______________, ____________, _______________ and ___________ scattered here and there. She also saw a _______________in the center of the floor. Charlotte was ____________ because she had heard more than one voice, and it appeared that all the other men were ____________________. Charlotte opened ______________ trunk, and the first thing she saw was a ______________. Charlotte was ________________! Because Charlotte was in a ___________ to leave, she accidentally stumbled and a sheet of ____________ fluttered to the ground. On it she saw a ________________.
She didn’t know what to do. Should she tell the _____________ about it? After thinking about it, Charlotte realized that the men were planning a _________________. She was confused because she knew the names of 4 men who had been there, but who was the _________ man? But then she remembered the man she had seen ___________________ when she first laid eyes on the ship. He must be a _______________!
She determined that she had to tell the _______________ immediately. When she emerged onto the ______________, she saw _______________ who indicated that something terrible would happen to her if she _________________________________. Then, she saw another man who was ________________ on her. When the coast was ___________, she went to see _______________ to whom she told about the ____________, the _____________, the __________________, and the experience she had had in the __________________. The captain was _______________, and he knew that he had to ______________ the forthcoming ______________________.
© Ellen Gabor, 2008