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? ? ? ? Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with level gaze.

? ? ? ? "Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass."

? ? ? ? Whereupon he turned and left the captain with the same indifferent ease that was habitual with him, and which was more surely calculated to raise the ire of a man of Billings' class than a torrent of invective.

? ? ? ? So, whereas the captain might easily have been brought to regret his hasty speech had Clayton attempted to conciliate him, his temper was now irrevocably set in the mold in which Clayton had left it, and the last chance of their working together for their common good was gone.

? ? ? ? "Well, Alice," said Clayton, as he rejoined his wife, "I might have saved my breath. The fellow proved most ungrateful. Fairly jumped at me like a mad dog.

? ? ? ? "He and his blasted old ship may hang, for aught I care; and until we are safely off the thing I shall spend my energies in looking after our own welfare.


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