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The Willoughby Captains

CHAPTER SEVEN
8/19

They ran us up on purpose to make us late.

You ask them.

It was a beastly low trick!" "And then coming back," continued Telson, "we ran down old Parrett in his skiff and spilt him, and we had to fish him out--didn't we, you chaps ?--and that made us late.

You ask Parrett; he's potted us for it, last night." Riddell listened to all this in a bewildered way, not knowing what to make of it.

If the boys' story was correct, there certainly might be some force in their excuse.


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