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"You don't dare to keepby what they have

already done to you, Mayo! I'"

"You'll have a chance to use it!" retorted the young ed out

and locked the stateroo back with you, sir," he called down over

the rail to the towboat captain

"I takethem from me now Cast off!"

"Look here--"

"Ito stay

till I can put him into the hands of the police"

"What has he done?"

"The less you know about the matter the better it will be for yourself

and your boat! You tell the --"

"You have hiht into the towboat , that I have his man under

lock and key and that the more riot he starts over theany ers out here unless

they are police officers" Then he roared in his master-mariner tones:

"Cast off your lines, sir You knohat the admiralty law is!"