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A Maid of the Silver Sea

CHAPTER XVII
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"And you'd best get your clothes on and help me find him.

You were both as drunk as pigs, I suppose.

If he's lying dead in a ditch it's you that'll have the blame." "Aw now, Julie!" "Don't Julie me, you fool! Get dressed and do something." "I'll come.

You wait," and he went inside, and put his head into a basin of water, and threw on his clothes, and came out presently looking anxious and disturbed now that his sluggish brain had begun to work.
"Where you been looking ?" he asked.
"Nowhere.

I expected to find him here." "We had a glass or two and then he started off home.


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