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But it was not Captain Candage who hailed hiainst the ladder, her screw churning the sea in reverse A stranger

ca leather

suit-case He was plainly the passenger who had chartered her A

deck-hand tossed a cast-line to the steamer's deck, and Mayo promptly

threw it back

"You can't come aboard"

"Who says so?"

"I say so I have a bill of sale of her in nize it The laill have so to say about that

later"

"I don't care what the law ht now We own

this steamer What are you here for?"

"I left quite a lot of little personal belongings on her I went away in

a hurry I want to coet 'e that you've chartered a

tug to come out here"

"A fellon property means one to all this expense, you ain't h are you,

to keep me off? This is between sailors"