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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 2
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Guess I sent her to Hell, if there is such a place.

I never dared go home again; and the wife and the little ones went to England to her father's place.

I don't know what's come to them,' he added, with a bitter shrug.
'Thank you, captain,' said Herrick.

'I never liked you better.' They shook hands, short and hard, with eyes averted, tenderness swelling in their bosoms.
'Now, boys! to work again at lying!' said the captain.
'I'll give my father up,' returned Herrick with a writhen smile.

'I'll try my sweetheart instead for a change of evils.' And here is what he wrote: 'Emma, I have scratched out the beginning to my father, for I think I can write more easily to you.


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