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Kilo

CHAPTER VI
11/22

Think of it, ladies and gents, not even a life preserver to save me, and the ship sinking a foot a minute." "Goodness me!" said Mrs.Weaver, "you wasn't drowned, was you ?" "No," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "or I wouldn't be here to tell it.

I rushed to the captain's cabin.

I thought maybe I would find a life preserver there.

Alas, no! But there, ladies and gents, I found something better.
When I didn't find a life preserver I was stunned--yes, clean knocked out.

I dropped into a chair and laid my head on the captain's table.
I sat there several minutes, the ship sinking one foot per minute, and when I come to my senses, and raised my head, my hand was lying on this." Reverently he raised the volume from his knees and unwrapped it, and the Ladies' Foreign Mission Society leaned forward with one accord to catch a glimpse of the title.


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