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The Simpkins Plot

CHAPTER IX
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He resented forced inactivity as an unendurable wrong.

Instead of smoking with half-closed eyes, he peered eagerly forward under the sail.

He noted everything--the floating gulls and puffins, the stiff, wild-eyed cormorants, the jelly-fish, the whirling eddies of the tide.

As the yacht drifted on, or was driven forward by the occasional faint puffs of air, he hissed through his teeth in the way known to sailors as whistling for a breeze.

He gazed long and steadily at the beach beyond the _Spindrift's_ moorings.
"I think," he said at last, "that there is a man on the shore, and he looks to me very much as if he was waiting for us." Major Kent made no answer.


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