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Rh upon the deck. "I have been back sounding my British 'bunkie, he said. "He is not going to change his cabin, but he is most decidedly troubled."

"About himself?"

"No, far from that. He's really so bored that I think he looks forward to having me rob him more hopefully than otherwise. But, as you know, apart from the opinion he is obliged to hold of me, he really likes me and certainly likes you, and he's rather used to worry about me, of course; but now he is worrying about you, too."

"About me?"

"Yes. For did you not consciously suborn perjury, or at least condone it, to get me off? I never thought of your being involved with me as an accomplice before, Miss Varris. But 'Really, Mr. Preston,' Mr. Dunneston warned me, 'quite—oh, quite entirely apart from the consideration of the possibility of your having done that little business at Plymouth, really you did wrong to condone perjury to free 218