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"Captain gone below?"

"Yes, sir," said the felloith a quid of tobacco bulging out his

left cheek kept his eyes on the cohed," repeated Powell incredulously "Do you mean the captain did?

You h for?"

"Don't know, sir"

The elderly sailor displayed a profound indifference towards human

eish pause he conceded a feordsthe deck as usual

when suddenly he laughed a little andfunny all at once"

So funny! That Mr Powell could not believe He did not ask

hih, in all

sorts of situations; they come to all sorts of men Nevertheless Mr