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The Willoughby Captains

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
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They may let out about it to him, if there's anything in it.

If they don't, we should see what Gilks says." "If it had been your lines that were cut," said Bloomfield, "I could have believed it.

He had a spite against all your fellows, and especially you, since he was kicked out of the boat.

But he had betted over a sovereign on us, I know." "I shouldn't have believed it at all," said Riddell, "if Silk hadn't sent me an anonymous note a week or two ago.

Here it is, by the way." Bloomfield read the note.
"Did you go and see the boat-boy ?" he asked.
"Yes; and all I could get out of him was that some one had got into the boat-house that night, and scrambled out of the window just in time to avoid being seen.


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