[Under the Great Bear by Kirk Munroe]@TWC D-Link bookUnder the Great Bear CHAPTER XIII 5/9
It's the very thing, and the sooner we can arrange to be off the better." "But you don't want to go to Labrador," protested White. "Don't I? There's where you make a big mistake; for I do want to go to Labrador more than to any other place I know of.
Also I would rather go there with you in the 'Sea Bee' than in any other company, or by any other conveyance.
So there you are, and if you don't invite me to start for Labrador before that brass-bound navy chap has a chance to arrest me, I shall consider myself a victim of misplaced confidence." "I do believe you have hit upon the very best way out of our troubles," said White, thoughtfully.
"If I could arrange to leave mother, and if the Yankee captain would make a part payment in cash, so that she and Cola could get along until my return, I believe I would go." "You can leave your mother and sister now as well as when you went to St.Johns, and better, for I am sure David Gidge would look out for them during the month or so that we'll be away." "But David would have to go along to help work the schooner." "I don't see why.
You and I could manage without him, and so save his wages, or his share of the voyage, which would amount to the same thing.
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