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CHAPTER ONE--YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE
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The bobby'll let us in all right.

'E knows both of us." "I didn't answer him," continued Mr.Powell.

"I was listening to footsteps on the other side of the gate, echoing between the walls of the warehouses as if in an uninhabited town of very high buildings dark from basement to roof.

You could never have guessed that within a stone's throw there was an open sheet of water and big ships lying afloat.

The few gas lamps showing up a bit of brick work here and there, appeared in the blackness like penny dips in a range of cellars--and the solitary footsteps came on, tramp, tramp.


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