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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXIV
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Well, the old man is in his bunk asleep.

The maid is in a cabin below.

And the other is sleeping down the hold there where we had to put him, for there is no room elsewhere." "Sleeping, you say?
We had best surprise him." "But think you that you dare do it alone! He has no arms, it is true, but he is a well-grown young fellow.

Will you not have twenty men up from the boat ?" Some such thought had passed through the officer's head, but the captain's remark put him upon his mettle.
"Come with me, corporal," said he.

"Down this ladder, you say ?" "Yes, down the ladder and straight on.


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