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The Cruise of the Jasper B.

CHAPTER XII
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I am cursed with a fatal magnetism which women find it impossible to resist.
And I am continually tempted to permit it to exert itself.

This is the cross that I bear through life." "You should marry some good woman," said Cleggett.
"I do not feel that I am worthy," said Mr.Calthrop meekly.

"And think of the pain my wife would experience in seeing me continually tempted by some woman who believed herself to be my psychic affinity!" "You are a thought too subtle, Mr.Calthrop," said Cleggett bluntly.
"But I suppose you cannot help that.

To each of us his destiny.

I am prepared, until I see some evidence to the contrary, to believe your repentance to be genuine.


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