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thing looked powerful and trustworthy Barely touched by the light her

bows rose faintly alongside the narrow strip of the quay; the rest of her

was a black se in the darkness Here I was face to face with reasy pave wall of a warehouse and I hit way The constable hailed her quietly

in a bass undertone 'Ferndale there!' A feeble and disroan, answered froular round knob, of wood, perhaps,

resting on the rail It did not move in the least; but as another broken-

down buzz like a still fainter echo of the first dismal sound proceeded

from it I concluded it must be the head of the ship-keeper The stalwart

constable jeered in ato join Move yourself a bit"

"The truth of the statement touched me in the pit of the stoets home on a man) for it was borne

uponbut a second officer of a

ship just like any other second officer, to that constable I was nity Only his tone offendedfor Thereupon he lost

all interest in

sternly before hi to hire, and his horrible dumb little pal in the soldier's coat,

who, frohtest sound