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Outward Bound

CHAPTER IV
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If you want a place, why don't you sail in, and get one.

Just look out for your marks; that's all you have to do." "Marks! I thought a fellow seventeen years old was not to be put up or put down by marks," said Wilton, bitterly.
"That depends somewhat upon whether you get in or out," laughed Shuffles.
"I suppose you and Paul Kendall will be fast friends now," added the discontented student.
"Kendall behaves very well, and has treated me first rate since I went into the cabin." "I suppose if I want to run away, you will stop me now." "If you are going to do that, you musn't tell me of it, now I'm an officer," replied Shuffles, as he turned on his heel, and walked aft.
Wilton was disgusted, and felt that he had lost his best friend, now that Shuffles had worked his way into the cabin..


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