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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER VII
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Then an empty green dory came by, knocking on the 'We're Here's' side, as though she wished to be taken in.

Then followed something, face down, in a blue jersey, but it was not the whole of a man.

Penn changed colour and caught his breath with a click.
Harvey pounded despairingly at the bell, for he feared they might be sunk at any minute, and he jumped at Dan's hail as the crew came back.
"The Jennie Cushman," said Dan, hysterically, "cut clean in half--graound up an' trompled on at that! Not a quarter of a mile away.
Dad's got the old man.

There ain't any one else, and--there was his son, too.

Oh, Harve, Harve, I can't stand it! I've seen--" He dropped his head on his arms and sobbed while the others dragged a grey-headed man aboard.
"What did you pick me up for ?" the stranger groaned.


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