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CHAPTER ONE--THE FERNDALE
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Franklin grew very uncomfortable, but the captain asked negligently: "What makes you think that there's something wrong ?" "I can't say exactly.

You don't look quite yourself, sir," Franklin owned up.
"You seem to have a confoundedly piercing eye," said the captain in such an aggressive tone that Franklin was moved to defend himself.
"We have been together now over six years, sir, so I suppose I know you a bit by this time.

I could see there was something wrong directly you came on board." "Mr.Franklin," said the captain, "we have been more than six years together, it is true, but I didn't know you for a reader of faces.

You are not a correct reader though.

It's very far from being wrong.


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