[The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrecker CHAPTER X 28/41
Here are the names on the register; perhaps you would care to look at them while I go and see about the baggage ?" I drew the book toward me, and stood looking at the four names all written in the same hand, rather a big and rather a bad one: Trent, Brown, Hardy, and (instead of Ah Sing) Jos.
Amalu. "Pinkerton," said I, suddenly, "have you that _Occidental_ in your pocket ?" "Never left me," said Pinkerton, producing the paper. I turned to the account of the wreck.
"Here," said I; "here's the name. 'Elias Goddedaal, mate.' Why do we never come across Elias Goddedaal ?" "That's so," said Jim.
"Was he with the rest in that saloon when you saw them ?" "I don't believe it," said I."They were only four, and there was none that behaved like a mate." At this moment the clerk returned with his report. "The captain," it appeared, "came with some kind of an express waggon, and he and the man took off three chests and a big satchel.
Our porter helped to put them on, but they drove the cart themselves.
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