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None the less, I was a bit thoughtful After all, the Mississippi

River, wide as it was, ran within certain well defined banks fro We were three hundredbetween points of continuous telegraphic

coht indeed mean

trouble for us Moreover, even as I turned to pick up the course--for

I had ure of Aunt Lucinda on the

after deck She was on the point of heaving overboard a bottle--I

heard it splash, saw it bob astern "Now, the devil will be to pay,"

thought I But, on second thought, I slowed down, so that distinctly I

saw the officer, also slowing down, stoop over and take the bottle

aboard his launch

"Ahoy, the launch!" I hailed He put a hand at his ear as I e for Mr Calvin Davidson," I hailed He nodded

that he heard "--That to-night John Doe ear his waistcoat, the

one with the pink stripes Do you get et me, for he sat down suddenly and ht I could know, he took back ashore

material for a newspaper story, which bade fair to be better for the