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Aaron’s Rod

CHAPTER X
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"What are you going to do about your move on ?" "Me!" said Lilly.

"I'm going to sail away next week--or steam dirtily away on a tramp called the _Maud Allen Wing_." "Where to ?" "Malta." "Where from ?" "London Dock.

I fixed up my passage this morning for ten pounds.

I am cook's assistant, signed on." Aaron looked at him with a little admiration.
"You can take a sudden jump, can't you ?" he said.
"The difficulty is to refrain from jumping: overboard or anywhere." Aaron smoked his pipe slowly.
"And what good will Malta do you ?" he asked, envious.
"Heaven knows.

I shall cross to Syracuse, and move up Italy." "Sounds as if you were a millionaire." "I've got thirty-five pounds in all the world.


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