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Cormorant Crag

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
12/18

He never do stand any nonsense.

I should say he'd have a haxiden' with 'em, same as he did with that French _douane_ chap.

Pistol might go off, or he might take 'em aboard and drop 'em--" _Murmur, murmur, murmur_--and then silence.
The speakers had evidently turned away from the mouth of the seal hole, and the boys did not hear the end of the sentence.
"Oh!" groaned Mike faintly.
"I say, Ladle, if you make a noise like that they'll hear you, and come and fetch us out." "I couldn't help it.

How horrid it sounds!" "Yes," said Vince very softly, "but he has got to catch us yet.

Who's old Jarks?
Here, I know: they mean the Frenchman: Jacks--Jacques, don't you see ?" "Yes, I see," said Mike dismally.
"He's the skipper, of course.


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