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The Port of Missing Men

CHAPTER XXIII
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Then he broke out with: "I do not think a braver gentleman, More active-valiant or more valiant-young, More daring or more bold, is now alive To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry;-- "Lord, Claiborne, you don't know what's ahead of us! It's the greatest thing that ever happened.

I never expected anything like this--not on my cheerfulest days.

Dearest Jules is out looking for a telegraph office to pull off the Austrian end of the rumpus.

Well, little good it will do him! And we'll catch him and Durand and that Servian devil and lock them up here till Marhof decides what to do with him.

We're off!" "All ready, sir;" said Oscar briskly.
"It's half-past two.


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