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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER X
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In vacation he was to be allowed full access to all details connected with the line--he had not asked more than two thousand questions about it,--from his father's most private papers in the safe to the tug in San Francisco harbour.
"It's a deal," said Cheyne at the last.

"You'll alter your mind twenty times before you leave college, o' course; but if you take hold of it in proper shape, and if you don't tie it up before you're twenty-three, I'll make the thing over to you.

How's that, Harve ?" "Nope; never pays to split up a going concern.

There's too much competition in the world anyway, and Disko says 'blood-kin hev to stick together.' His crowd never go back on him.

That's one reason, he says, why they make such big fares.


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