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Shavings

CHAPTER XVI
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I must have drunk it in my sleep, I guess.

Do I look green around the mouth, Sam ?" It was just before Captain Sam's departure that he spoke of his daughter and young Phillips.

He mentioned them in a most casual fashion, as he was putting on his coat to go, but Jed had a feeling that his friend had stopped at the windmill shop on purpose to discuss that very subject and that all the detail of his Wapatomac trip had been in the nature of a subterfuge to conceal this fact.
"Oh," said the captain, with somewhat elaborate carelessness, as he struggled into the heavy coat, "I don't know as I told you that the directors voted to raise Charlie's salary.

Um-hm, at last Saturday's meetin' they did it.

'Twas unanimous, too.


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