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A deep flush mounted to the irl he had so grievously wronged--for the life of hiaze bent upon the ground walked quickly toward Theriere

Ward was quick to recognize the turn events had taken, and to see that it gave Theriere the balance of poith two guns and nine uns and seven irl would naturally gravitate since Divine, an old acquaintance, had cast his lot with it; nor had the growing inti and Theriere been lost upon him

Ward knew that Simms was an arrant coward, nor was he hi, man-to-man encounter such as must quickly follow any attempt upon his part to uphold the authority of Siue and trickery were , and so he was quick to alter his plan of can the instant that it became evident that Divine had elected to join forces with the opposing faction

"I reckon," he said, directing his remarks toward no one in particular, "that we've all been rather hasty in thishet up as ith the strain of e been through an' so it seems to me, takin' into consideration that Mr Theriere really done his best to save the ship, an' that as a hty lucky to coones, for the time bein' at least, an' all of us pitch in to save e can fros sort o' shipshape here instid o' squabblin' ast ourselves"

"Suit yourself," said Theriere, "it's all the same to us," and his use of the objective pronoun seemed definitely to establish the existence of his faction as a separate and distinct party

Simms, from years of experience with his astutethat Ward proposed, though he had not the brains always to appreciate the purposes that proestions Now, therefore, he nodded his approval of Squint Eye's proposal, feeling that whatever was in Ward's mind would be more likely to work out to Skipper Simms' interests than some unadvised act of Skipper Simms himself

"Supposin'," continued Ward, "that we let two o' your men an' two o' ourn under Mr Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer cae"