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"No need to go farther and fare worse, parson," said he, equably. "I saw that the first minute I could see anything but red. Yet do you know, when she was telling us about it, I thought like a fool of everything but the right thing, from sandbagging and shanghaing Inglesby, down to holding up Hunter with an automatic?
It was then and only then that the detective suspected he was the victim of a "plant," of a carefully planned shanghaing movement, the object of which, apparently, was to gain time for the fugitive. It was only at the point of a revolver that Blake brought the boat ashore, and there he was promptly arrested and accused of attempted murder.
Beauchamp introduced the reporter to her, but Dunn failed to catch the name of this rather remarkable looking young lady. "You are to write the story of Mr. Farnum's adventure?" she asked. The reporter's eyes narrowed very slightly. "What story?" "The account of the shanghaing. Oh, I know all about it. Have you all the facts?" "I'll be glad to hear what you know, Miss "
His long fight for reform, the dramatic features of the shanghaing and his return, the collapse of the charges against his character, all contributed to lift him to dizzy popularity. He was the very much embarrassed man of the hour.
The by-product of his gun made some holes in the front of the Eye Wink, which were proudly kept as souvenirs, and were probably there until it went out in the fire. This was low life, the lowest of the low. Until the last decade almost anything except the commonplace and the expected might happen to a man on the waterfront. The cheerful industry of shanghaing was reduced to a science.
Dunn was sitting in the smoking room writing his story of the kidnapping when a ruddy young Englishman stopped opposite him. "You're Mr. Dunn, are you not? Reporter for the World?" "Yes." The newspaper man looked him over with a swift, trained attention. "A young lady would like to see you for a few minutes. She is interested in this shanghaing of Mr. Farnum."
"Oh, I am," Jeff agreed with a twinkle. But Captain Green had reckoned without the weather. The Nancy Hanks drifted into three days of calm and sultry heat. At the end of the third day she began to rock gently beneath a murky sky. "Dirty weather," predicted the mate, the same who had assisted at the shanghaing.
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