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VIVE LE ROI.
"The Last Hope" had been expected for some days.

It was known in Farlingford that she was foul, and that Captain Clubbe had decided to put her on the slip-way at the end of the next voyage.

Captain Clubbe was a Farlingford man.

"The Last Hope" was a Farlingford built ship, and Seth Clubbe was not the captain to go past his own port for the sake of saving a few pounds.
"Farlingford's his nation," they said of him down at the quay.