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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXIV
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"You stand here at the head of the ladder, sergeant.

Throw up a rope and you can fix it to this stanchion.
Keep awake down there and be all ready to fire! You come with me, Corporal Lemoine.

Who is captain of this ship ?" "I am, sir," said Ephraim Savage submissively.
"You have three Huguenots aboard ?" "Tut! tut! Huguenots, are they?
I thought they were very anxious to get away, but as long as they paid their passage it was no business of mine.

An old man, his daughter, and a young fellow about your age in some sort of livery." "In uniform, sir! The uniform of the king's guard.

Those are the folk I have come for." "And you wish to take them back ?" "Most certainly." "Poor folk! I am sorry for them." "And so am I, but orders are orders and must be done." "Quite so.


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