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ES, sir, we're shanghaied," repeated Tony, looking over his shoulder at the lights on shore, which appeared to be moving away from the ship, and going faster and faster as the minutes flew by. "That's what's the matter of me an' you an' Bob. We've been stole from our homes an' friends an' tooken to sea agin our will."

"No!" gasped Roy, who was almost paralyzed by these ominous words. "It can't be possible."

"That's what the matter of us, an' you'll find it so."

"But I'll not go. I don't belong aboard this ship, and the captain has no business to take me to sea against my will."

"Small odds it makes to the likes of him whether he's got any business to do it or not," 194