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Foul Play

CHAPTER IX
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A squall did strike her, and she was on her beam-ends in a moment.

We pulled ashore with two bales of silk by way of salvage, and sample of what warn't in her hold when she settled down.

We landed; and the Frenchmen were dancing about with excitement.

'Captain,' says one, 'you have much sang fraw.' 'Insured, munseer,' says I.'Bone,' says he.
"Then there was the _Antelope,_ lost in charge of a pilot off the Hooghly.

I knew the water as well as he did.


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