[The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ebb-Tide CHAPTER 3 18/30
Stephens stole a schooner the other day, didn't he? Hayes and Pease stole vessels all the time.
And it's the making of the crowd of us.
See here--you think of that cargo.
Champagne! why, it's like as if it was put up on purpose.
In Peru we'll sell that liquor off at the pier-head, and the schooner after it, if we can find a fool to buy her; and then light out for the mines. If you'll back me up, I stake my life I carry it through.' 'Captain,' said Herrick, with a quailing voice, 'don't do it!' 'I'm desperate,' returned Davis.
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