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Cap’n Warren’s Wards

CHAPTER XVIII
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We don't want--any of us--to have this get into the papers.

We mustn't have any disgrace." "Disgrace! Good heavens! Isn't there disgrace enough already?
Isn't it enough to know father was a crook as well as an idiot?
I've always thought he was insane ever since that crazy will of his came to light; but to steal! and then to leave a paper proving it, so that we've got to lose everything! His children! It's--" "Now hold on, boy! Your dad didn't mean to take what didn't belong to him--for good, that is; the note proves that.

He did do wrong and used another man's money, but--" "Then why didn't he keep it?
If you're going to steal, steal like a man, I say!" "Steve, Steve! steady now!" The captain's tone was sterner.

"Don't speak that way.

You'll be sorry for it later.


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