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Humph! how strange this is!" "What ?" "Why, that I should forget all these things." The lightkeeper regarded his guest with suspicion.
"Yaas," he drawled slowly, "when you call it strange you ain't exaggeratin' none wuth mentionin'.

I s'pose," he added, after a moment, during which he stared intently at Mr.Brown, who smiled in polite acknowledgment of the stare; "I s'pose likely you couldn't possibly remember what port you hailed from ?" "I suppose not," was the calm reply.
Seth rose from the table.
"Well," he observed, "I've been up all night, too, and it's past my bedtime.