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"But I's skeered that we " Mr. Cledd now had gone to the companion. "Captain Hamlin," he called again, "there's a junk passing close aboard." I heard Roger's step on the companion-way. It later transpired that he had not heard the first summons. "Mah golly! Look dah!" the cook exclaimed. The junk was looming up dangerously. Mr. Cledd caught my arm.
The trees on the high summit of the island off which we lay were silhouetted clearly against the sky. What spying eyes might not look down upon us from those wooded heights? What lawless craft might not lurk beyond its abrupt headlands? "No, I don't wonder, either," said Mr. Cledd, thoughtfully. At daybreak we again weighed anchor and set sail.
Cledd, who hitherto had sat with a slight smile on his lean Yankee face, now looked at Roger with keener interest. "Yes," said Roger, "I shall go home by way of Sunda Strait." "Now surely, Captain Hamlin, that would be folly; there are other courses." "But none so direct." "A long way round is often the shortest way home.
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