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218 "Well said, my hearty Captain!" cried Glossin, endeavouring to catch the tone of revelry,–

"That's it, my bully-boy! Why, you're alive again now!—And now let us talk about our business." "Your business, if you please," said Hatteraick; "hagel and donner!—mine was done when I got out of the bilboes."

"Have patience, my good friend;—I'll convince you our interests are just the same." Hatteraick gave a short dry cough, and Glossin after a pause proceeded.

"How came you to let the boy escape?" "Why, fluch and blitzen! he was no charge of mine. Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the