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The Mayor of Troy

CHAPTER XIV
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and yet I remember now at dinner I heard the Duke say--" Here it was Captain Crang's turn to stare dumbfounded at an apparition, as a pair of handcuffed wrists thrust themselves up through the main hatchway and were painfully followed by the rest of Mr.Orlando B.Sturge.
"Oh, good Lord! Look! Is the ship full of 'em ?" shouted the Captain.
"They ain't real," murmured Mr.Wapshott soothingly.

"You'll get accustomed.

They began by being frogs," he explained, with the initiatory air of an elder brother, and waved a feeble hand.

"Eggs-- if you'll 'low me, sir, to conclude--egg-sisting in the 'magination only.


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