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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 10: Preparations For A Rescue
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And if I want help, it is to Leigh I should turn, and not to you.

After three months' campaigning, it may be that you will be able to hold up an end as well as he can, but you certainly cannot do so now.

In another hundred yards we shall be at the boat, and they must be on the lookout for us." In a short time they saw a fishing craft, with a boat astern of her.

A man was standing on the deck.
"It is a dark night, my friends," he said.
"It will be lighter in the morning," Jean replied.
The man leapt ashore.
"Ah, captain, I am glad, indeed, to see you.

Brenon did not tell us, until after he had made a bargain with us, who wanted our boat, or we should not have talked about payment.


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