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One of the 28th

CHAPTER IV
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Who would have thought now, when I lugged you in over the bowsprit of La Belle Marie that night in the channel, that you were going to save my life some day.

Well, I don't suppose, lad, I shall ever get quits with you, but if there is a chance you can count upon me.

You come to me any night and say I am going to escape, Jacques, and I will help you to do it, even if they riddle me with bullets five minutes afterward." "I shall never ask that of you, Jacques," Ralph said warmly.

"I consider we are quits now, though you may not.

Indeed, I can tell you that I don't consider that two months of kindness are wiped out by just taking a jump on to the back of a snake." There were loud sounds of shouting, singing, and quarreling as they passed near the great fires that were blazing near the storehouse.
They reached the waterside without notice, and taking a boat rowed off to the brig.


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