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A Maid of the Silver Sea

CHAPTER XVI
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He ran at me and gave me this, and my first inclination was to give him a sound thrashing.

Then I saw it would be no good, in the condition he was in, so I just kept him at arm's length till he tired of it.

He went off at last, and I was so afraid he might tumble off the Coupee that I followed him, and he hurled rocks at me whenever he came to a stand.

But he got across all right, and I went back and went to bed.

Now, what's all the trouble about ?" "He never came home," she jerked, with a catch in her voice which thought only of Tom had never put there.
"Never came home ?" "And they're all out looking for him." "I wonder if he went back to Peter Mauger's....


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