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"Violet Vance and Wilful Winnie and a whole holdful of airy creatures couldn't help a fisherman when there's anything stirring. I waded through a whole bunch of 'em once," he reached over and took a wedge of pie from the grub-locker.
From the boiler on the galley-stove he poured out a mug of coffee and from the grub-locker he took a slice of bread and two thick slices of cold beef. He buried the bread among the beef and leaned against the foremast while he ate. Once when Clancy was a skipper he did a fine bit of rescuing out to sea, and after he got home a newspaper man saw him and wrote him up.
A muttered exclamation from Hawkins caused him to look up quickly. The newspaperman was handing Billings a cigar-shaped capsule half filled with a coarse white powder. "What's this, Jack?" he asked. "Looks like sugar. Found it in the grub-locker." Billings poured the contents of the capsule into the palm of his hand. For a moment he scrutinized it intently.
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