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"You dareWhat's the matter now?"

These last words were shot out not at her but at so over her shoulder she saw the bald head with black bunches

of hair of the congested and devoted Franklin (he had his cap in his

hand) gazing sentimentally from the saloon doorith his lobster eyes

He was heard fro

that the berthing side and that he wanted to move the

ship into the basin before the crew came on board

His captain growled "Well, let him," and waved away the ulcerated and

pathetic soul behind these proered on the offensive

woman while the mate backed out slowly Anthony turned to Flora

"You could not have ht as theyto be"

"Then don't joke in that way Think of ould becoot No, I didn't etfulness You wouldn't have been wronged I couldn't have gone

I--I a where she stood and restrained hi her into his arh he

had been tempted to an act of unparalleled treachery He stepped aside

and lowering his eyes pointed to the door of the stern-cabin It was

only after she passed by hilance she gave him before she htly just before reaching the door and flung it to