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"Well, captain," he said, "and how is the leg getting on?"

He was a bright, breezy-looking reat deal in the open air, and " Indeed, he was rather nautical in his dress and

appearance

"You have a nurse, I see," he added, looking at Vallance

"Yes," said the captain, "nurse and housekeeper in one She is may

niece, poor Robert's daughter, you know"

"Ah! to be sure," said the doctor, shaking hands with her "He went

out as a onia,his

country for the sake of theers, as if there wasn't plenty of

sinners in Wales for hiood h very well satisfied with

this state of affairs

"Have you heard the news?" said the doctor, while he exa

"No, what is it?" rumbled the captain

"Why, the Burrawalla has put back for repairs, Just seen her tugged

in--good deal daed; they say, a collision with the steaosh! that's bad That's the first accident that's ever happened

to Captain Owen, and he's been sailing the last thirty years to e Well, Ay'm tarnished, but Ay'm sorry"

"Always stops with you?" inquired the doctor