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Cormorant Crag

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
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Now look here, Ladle: we're in a mess." "As if I didn't know!" "And we've got to get ourselves out of it, because nobody knows anything about this place or our having come here.

Think Lobster will say he has seen us come this way once?
He's sure to hear we're missing and that they're looking for us." "I don't suppose he will," said Mike dismally.

"If they came this way they wouldn't find the hole.

They'll think we've gone off the cliff and been drowned.

What will they say! what will they say!" These words touched Vince home, and for a few minutes a peculiar feeling overcame him; but the boy had too much good British stuff in him to give way to despair, and he turned angrily upon his companion: "Look here, Ladle," he said: "if you go on like this I'll punch your head.


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