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 "It's in print already, but fortunately the man who wrote about it did not know my name," replied Roy. "There's a long account of it in the Tribune?"

"And is that account correct?"

"Perfectly. But my father takes the Tribune, and if he had seen my name in that article he would have ordered me home in short order."

"And you don't want to go, I suppose?"

"Certainly not," answered Roy, who then went on to tell where he did want to go; and to prove that his father would be likely to tell him to come home if he got into trouble, he related what Mr. Wayring had done when he learned through the New London papers that Matt Coyle had tied Joe to a tree and threatened to beat him with switches.

"I remember of reading about that," said the reporter. "One of the Tribune's staff was stopping at the Sportsman's Home at the time, and he was the one who wrote it up. I don't blame you for not wanting your name mentioned in connection with that little episode in the harbor last night, and you are wise in