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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER IX
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Guess we'd better wire the boy.

You've forgotten that, anyhow." "I'll ask." When he returned with the father's message bidding Harvey meet them in Boston at an appointed hour, he found Miss Kinzey laughing over the keys.

Then Milsom laughed too, for the frantic clicks from Los Angeles ran: "We want to know why-why-why?
General uneasiness developed and spreading." Ten minutes later Chicago appealed to Miss Kinzey in these words: "If crime of century is maturing please warn friends in time.

We are all getting to cover here." This was capped by a message from Topeka (and wherein Topeka was concerned even Milsom could not guess): "Don't shoot, Colonel.

We'll come down." Cheyne smiled grimly at the consternation of his enemies when the telegrams were laid before him.


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