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Tho His

cabins were filled with about all the variant species of the race: two

nervous ed children, three young

her husband's expenses and

gladly announced the fact over and through the partitions Three bells

tingled all day long, and the only thing that saved Thomas from the

"sickbay" was the fact that the bar closed at eleven And a rough

passage added to his labors No Henley this voyage, no co

about the

to it with that tenacity which

ht, stretched out wearily on his bunk, the sordid

picture of Lumpy Joe's returned to him By a hair's breadth! It was

always a source of amazement to recall how quickly and shrewdly his

escape had been ed He felt reasonably safe Jameson would never

dare tell what he knew, to incriot the best of him and to have pulled the wool over the eyes

of a keen American detective!