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The Tides of Barnegat

CHAPTER XVIII
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Good-night," and he opened the door and disappeared in the darkness.
Captain Holt sat with his head on his chest looking at the floor in front of him.

The light of the banging lamp made dark shadows under his eyebrows and under his chin whiskers.

There was a firm set to his clean-shaven lips, but the eyes burned with a gentle light; a certain hope, positive now, seemed to be looming up in them.
Tod watched him for an instant, and said: "What do ye think of it, cap'n ?" "I ain't made up my mind." "Is he lyin' ?" "I don't know.

Seems too good to be true.

He's got some things right; some things he ain't.


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