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The Courage of Captain Plum

CHAPTER IV
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You know.

You have been warned ?" Nathaniel drew Winnsome's note from his pocket and read it aloud.
Obadiah smiled gleefully when he noticed how carefully he kept the handwriting from his eyes.
"Ah, Nat, you are a noble fellow!" he cried, rubbing his hands in his old tireless way.

"You would not betray pretty little Winn, eh?
And who do you suppose told Winnsome to give you this note ?" "Strang's wife." "Yea, even so.

And it was she who set my old legs a-running for you, my boy.

Come, let us move!" The little councilor was his old self again, chuckling and grimacing and rubbing his hands, and his eyes danced as he spoke of the girl.
"Casey is not a cautious man," he gurgled with a sudden upward leer.
"Casey is a fool!" "Casey!" almost shouted Captain Plum.


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