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Cutlass and Cudgel

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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"I don't like this at all I don't think I ought to have let a boy like that go alone.

You don't think, Mr Gurr, that they would dare to injure him if he was so unlucky as to be caught ?" "Well, sir," said the master, hesitating, "smugglers are smugglers." "Mr Gurr," said the little lieutenant, raising himself up on his toes, so as to be as high as possible, "will you have the goodness to talk sense ?" "Certainly, sir." "Smugglers are smugglers, indeed.

What did you suppose I thought they were?
Oysters ?" "Beg pardon, sir; didn't mean any harm." "Getting very late!" said the little officer after another sweep of the top of the cliff, especially above where the French lugger landed the goods.

"I shall be obliged to send you on shore, Mr Gurr.

You must go and find him.


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