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'Well,' he said to Herrick, when they were seated, 'there's one good job
at least. He's taken to you in earnest.'
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Why should that be a good job?' said Herrick.
Oh, you'll see how it pans out presently,' returned Davis. 'You go
ashore and stand in with him, that's all! You'll get lots of pointers;
you can find out what he has, and what the charter is, and who's the
fourth man--for there's four of them, and we're only three.'
'
And suppose I do, what next?' cried Herrick. 'Answer me that!'
So I will, Robert Herrick,' said the captain. 'But first, let's see all
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clear. I guess you know,' he said with an imperious solemnity, 'I guess
you know the bottom is out of this Farallone speculation? I guess you
know it's RIGHT out? and if this old island hadn't been turned up right
when it did, I guess you know where you and I and Huish would have
been?'
'Yes, I know that,' said Herrick. 'No matter who's to blame, I know it.
And what next?'
'
No matter who's to blame, you know it, right enough,' said the captain,
and I'm obliged to you for the reminder. Now here's this Attwater: what
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do you think of him?'
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