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The Wrecker

PROLOGUE
10/17

C'est l'heure de l'absinthe.

Of course, Loudon, you'll dine with me later on ?" Mr.Dodd signified his acquiescence; drew on his white coat, not without a trifling difficulty, for he was a man of middle age, and well-to-do; arranged his beard and moustaches at one of the Venetian mirrors; and, taking a broad felt hat, led the way through the trade-room into the ship's waist.
The stern boat was waiting alongside,--a boat of an elegant model, with cushions and polished hard-wood fittings.
"You steer," observed Loudon.

"You know the best place to land." "I never like to steer another man's boat," replied Havens.
"Call it my partner's, and cry quits," returned Loudon, getting nonchalantly down the side.
Havens followed and took the yoke lines without further protest.

"I am sure I don't know how you make this pay," he said.

"To begin with, she is too big for the trade, to my taste; and then you carry so much style." "I don't know that she does pay," returned Loudon.


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