I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to spare his life.

I can't spare a week, so instead, I help him unload fish from the hold of the Lauren Dorothy, a friend's boat, while music blares over the noise of the engine.

"I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand," Mr. Titterton said, "Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back."