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want to know the news. Tell him I'll have his niece all safe before he can

get to town. Hump yourself, now; I'm agoing up around the corner here, to

roust out my engineer." ssssssssss

I struck for the light, but as soon as he turned the corner I went back

and got into my skiff and bailed her out and then pulled up shore in

the easy water about six hundred yards, and tucked myself in among some

woodboats; for I couldn't rest easy till I could see the ferry-boat start. But

take it all around, I was feeling rather comfortable on accounts of taking all

this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the

widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping

these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow

and good people takes the most interest in.

Well, before long, here comes the wreck, dim and dusky, sliding along

down! A kind of cold shiver went through me, and then I struck out for

her. She was very deep, and I see in a minute there warn't much chance

for anybody being alive in her. I pulled all around her and hollered a little,

but there wasn't any answer; all dead still. I felt a little bit heavy-hearted

about the gang, but not much, for I reckoned if they could stand it, I could.??

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