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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 9: Two Offers
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As for his wife, she's a treasure, and she knows how to cook a dinner, as you will acknowledge presently.
"They form the mainstay of my establishment.

Besides that, there's an old chap who looks after the garden, goes down to the town, and does odd jobs.

He was a sailor.

He was landed here when his vessel came into port, five years ago.

He had fallen off the yard on to the deck, and had broken half his ribs.


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