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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER X
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"Pedro, supposed Madeira, single, Keene's boarding-house, City.
"Joseph Welsh, alias Joseph Wright, 30, St.John's, Newfoundland." "No--Augusty, Maine," a voice cried from the body of the hall.
"He shipped from St.John's," said the reader, looking to see.
"I know it.

He belongs in Augusty.

My nevvy." The reader made a pencilled correction on the margin of the list, and resumed: "Same schooner, Charlie Ritchie, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 33, single.
"Albert May, 267 Rogers Street, City, 27, single.

"September 27th .-- Orvin Dollard, 30, married, drowned in dory off Eastern Point." That shot went home, for one of the widows flinched where she sat, clasping and unclasping her hands.

Mrs.Cheyne, who had been listening with wide-opened eyes, threw up her head and choked.


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