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Inwardly he wondered what the dude was doing on board such a vessel as the Half real er more than he would have been ready to admit He saw that the man's face was handsome, but there was an unpleasant shiftiness to his brown eyes; and then, entirely outside of his for him, Billy came to loathe him intuitively, as one as not to be trusted Finally his dislike for the man became an obsession He haunted, when discipline permitted, that part of the vessel where he would be , always hoping, that the "dude" would give hi in his mush," as Billy would so picturesquely have worded it

He was loitering about the deck for this purpose one evening when he overheard part of a low-voiced conversation between the object of his wrath and Skipper Si, and to show hiht be it was crooked and that the ier and Skipper Simms were both "in on it"

He questioned "Bony" Sawyer and "Red" Sanders, but neither had nearly as much information as Billy himself, and so the Halfmoon came to Honolulu and lay at anchor some hundred yards from a stanch, trim, white yacht, and none knew, other than the Halfer, the real antine