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"What?" Killigreung his feet to the deck "What the dickens have

you been doing now? Who is it?"

"Webb"

"The steward?"

"Yes"

"Well, if that" began Killigrew belligerently

"Dad, either mother and I act as we please, or you reed and understood that I

should select any eht happen to need"

"It was, ood I want some one ill attend to the affairs honestly

and painstakingly Thererew

"Whose set ideas would clash constantly with ours And any young man

we knoould idle and look on the whole affair as a fine joke I've

had a talk with Webb He's not a universityMorte d'Arthur"

"Ah!"--from Crawford

"He beca else to do at the

present time He has been poor, and I dare say he has known the pinch

of poverty You said only this , dad, that he was the most

attentive steward you had ever met on shipboard Besides, there is a

case in point Our butler was a steward before you engaged hio"