[Under the Great Bear by Kirk Munroe]@TWC D-Link bookUnder the Great Bear CHAPTER XIII 6/9
If one man can sail a 30-foot boat around the world alone, as Captain Slocum did, two of us certainly ought to be able to take a 50-foot schooner up to Labrador and back.
Any way I'm game to try it, if you are, and I'd a heap rather risk it than stay here to be arrested.
There is Captain Bland now.
Let's go and talk with him." The Yankee skipper stood near the shattered door of the factory in company with a number of villagers, all of whom seemed greatly interested in something going on inside.
As our lads drew near these made way for them, and Captain Bland said: "'Pears like the new owner is making himself perfectly at home." Inside the factory the Frenchman Delom, who had remained behind to make good his claim to the confiscated property of his rival, was too busily at work to pay any attention to the disparaging remarks and muttered threats of those whom he had forbidden to enter.
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