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"I wasn't fit to tie the shoe-strings of the man you have drowned," I

screamed at theood lowering a boat You couldn't have seen her alongside No use

And only think, Marlow, it was I who had to go and tell Mrs Anthony

They had taken her down below soo

and tell her! That Flaherty, God forgive him, comes to me as white as a

sheet, "I think you are the proper person" God forgive him I wished

to die a hundred ti excitedly around Mrs Anthony--a real parrot house The

ship's doctor went before ht and left and then there

falls a sudden hush Yes, I wished myself dead But Mrs Anthony was a

brick

Here Mr Powell fairly burst into tears "No one could help loving

Captain Anthony I leave you to iine what he was to her Yet before

the as out it was she as helping land now?" I asked after a while

He wiped his eyes without any false sha for the box under the table added: "And not

very far froe up there--you know"