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Harrigan

CHAPTER 19
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If you was to go an' tell him what I've said, he'd laugh at you an' say you was tryin' to incite discontent.

What's it goin' to be, Harrigan?
Will you join me an' the rest who can set you free an' make a man of you, or will you stay by McTee and White Henshaw and that devil Campbell ?" "How could you set me free ?" "One move--altogether--in the night--we'd have the ship for our own, an' we could beach her and take to the shore at any place we pleased." Harrigan repeated: "One move--altogether--in the night! I don't like it, bos'n.

I'll stand up to my man foot to foot an' hand to hand, but for strikin' at him in the dark--I can't do it." He caught the sound of Hovey's gritting teeth.
"Think it over," persisted the bos'n.

"We need you, Harrigan, but if you don't join, we'll help McTee and Henshaw and Campbell to make life hell for you." "I've thought it over.

I don't like the game.


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