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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER X
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At last Cheyne pitched away the cigar-butt, and the two sat in the dark over the lapping water.
"I've never told that to any one before," said the father.
Harvey gasped.

"It's just the greatest thing that ever was!" said he.
"That's what I got.

Now I'm coming to what I didn't get.

It won't sound much of anything to you, but I don't wish you to be as old as I am before you find out.

I can handle men, of course, and I'm no fool along my own lines, but--but I can't compete with the man who has been taught! I've picked up as I went along, and I guess it sticks out all over me." "I've never seen it," said the son, indignantly.
"You will, though, Harve.


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