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every syllable, and seemed to ponder and try it in balances. It
would have been hard to say what look there was, cold, attentive, and
sinister, as of a man maturing plans, which still brooded over the
unconscious guest; it was here, it was there, it was nowhere; it was now
so little that Herrick chid himself for an idle fancy; and anon it was
so gross and palpable that you could say every hair on the man's head
talked mischief.
He woke up now, as with a start. 'You were talking of a charter,' said
he.
'Was I?' said Attwater. 'Well, let's talk of it no more at present.'
'Your own schooner is overdue, I understand?' continued the captain.
'You understand perfectly, Captain Brown,' said Attwater; 'thirty-three
days overdue at noon today.'
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She comes and goes, eh? plies between here and...?' hinted the captain.
Exactly; every four months; three trips in the year,' said Attwater.
You go in her, ever?' asked Davis.
No, one stops here,' said Attwater, 'one has plenty to attend to.'
Stop here, do you?' cried Davis. 'Say, how long?'
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