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If you're not back in ninety
days, I tell you plainly I'll make one of the biggest
busts ever seen upon this coast. It's life or death
for Mr. Dodd and me. As like as not it'll come to
grapples on the island; and when I heard your name last
night--and a blame' sight more this morning when I saw
the eye you've got in your head--I said, 'Nares is good
enough for me!'"
"I guess," observed Nares, studying the ash of his
cigar, "the sooner I get that schooner outside the
Farallones the better you'll be pleased."
"You're the man I dreamed of!" cried Jim, bouncing on
the bed. "There's not five per cent. of fraud in all
your carcase."
"Just hold on," said Nares. "There's another point. I
heard some talk about a supercargo."
"That's Mr. Dodd here, my partner," said Jim.
"I don't see it," returned the captain drily. "One
captain's enough for any ship that ever I was aboard."
"Now don't you start disappointing me," said Pinkerton,
"for you're talking without thought. I'm not going to
give you the run of the books of this firm, am I? I
guess not.


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