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"Youtiht at our behaviour and turned to the captain pitifully "What is it

you are concealing froht question--eh? I don't knohat

answer the captain would have made Before he could even raise his eyes

to her she cried out "Ah! Here's papa" in a sharp tone of relief, but

directly afterwards she looked toher breath

with apprehension I was so interested in her that, how shall I say it,

her exclamation made no connection in my brain at first I also noticed

that she had sidled up a little nearer to Captain Anthony, before it

occurred to me to turn my head I can tell you my neck stiffened in the

twisted position fro that old ht to have looked upon him as mad But

I couldn't It would have been certainly easier But I could not You

should have seen him First of all he was completely dressed with his

very cap still on his head just as when he leftin his soft voice: "The o and do that thing and hide in his dark cabin,

and watch the stuff do its work A cold shudder ran down my back He

had his hands in the pockets of his jacket, his arht body, and he shuffled across the cabin with his

short steps There was a red patch on each of his old soft cheeks as if

so them He drooped his head a little, and

looked with a sort of underhand expectation at the captain and Mrs

Anthony standing close together at the other end of the saloon The