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"Good-by!" he said "I have found out where I belong in this world"

And in that unheroic fashion ended so which, so he then realized,

should never have been begun He followed Captain Wass across the

saloon

"Better advise your buckos to be careful how they handle therate-bars," shouted Captain Wass "I'led I'm

liable to explode"

They were not molested when they left the yacht The doryht Captain Wass rowed them to the wharf

"Those papers--" Mayo had ventured, soon after they left the yacht's

side

"Not one word about 'em!" yelped the old skipper "It's ht I'll show you that it's my

private business I never allow anybody to interfere in that"

That night, after the conference at the hotel, and after Julius Marston,

growling profanity, had put his name to certain papers, drawn by careful

lawyers, Captain Wass explained why the matter of the sealed packet

was his private business He took Marston apart fro

"I haven't said one word to Vose or his associates about this business