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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 3
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Well, there's your company.

They're waiting for you, Herrick, and you got to go; and that's a prophecy.' And as the man stood and shook through his great stature, he seemed indeed like one in whom the spirit of divination worked and might utter oracles.

Herrick looked at him, and looked away; It seemed not decent to spy upon such agitation; and the young man's courage sank.
'You talk of going home,' he objected.

'We could never do that.' 'WE could,' said the other.

'Captain Brown couldn't, nor Mr Hay, that shipped mate with him couldn't.


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