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? ? ? ? "Duty is duty, John, and no amount of sophistries may change it. I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. I realize the danger which must follow, but I can face it with you."

? ? ? ? "Have it as you will then, Alice," he answered, smiling. "Maybe we are borrowing trouble. While I do not like the looks of things on board this ship, they may not be so bad after all, for it is possible that the `Ancient Mariner' was but voicing the desires of his wicked old heart rather than speaking of real facts.

? ? ? ? "Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings.

? ? ? ? "But there goes the captain to his cabin now. If I am going to warn him I might as well get the beastly job over for I have little stomach to talk with the brute at all."

? ? ? ? So saying he strolled carelessly in the direction of the companionway through which the captain had passed, and a moment later was knocking at his door.


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