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"My place is on this quarter-deck, sir If you've got anything to say to

ht step, after a scuff or two

"I hope you're going to take this thing right, Captain Downs It may

sound queer to you at first," he stammered

"Well, well, well, tell it to me--tell it! Then I will let you knohether it sounds queer or not"

"I brought another passenger on board with me She is locked in a

stateroom"

Old Mull stopped his patrol with a jerk "She?" he deot a woet --"

"Then why in tophet didn't ye go get e, do you?"

"There were reasons e couldn't get married ashore You have to have

licenses, and questions are asked, and ere afraid it would be found

out before we could arrange it"

"So this is an elope lady's father has foolish ideas about a husband for his

daughter, and she doesn't agree with him"

"Who is her father?"