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Within an hour after he had first seen her he was in Mr. Abraham Goldberg's office. As he was concluding his purchase Mr. Goldberg having phoned Cleggett's bankers he was surprised to discover that he was buying about half an acre of Long Island real estate along with her.
The swish of oars and the ripple of a moving boat drew Cleggett's attention in that direction as Loge's booming threats grew fainter. He saw that two oarsmen, near the eastern and farther side of the canal, had allowed the dainty, varnished little craft they were supposed to propel to come to a rest in spite of the evident displeasure of a man who sat in its stern.
That man was destined to do something more than get on Cleggett's nerves before the adventures of the Jasper B. were ended. The isolated road house on the bay was a nondescript, jumbled, dilapidated-looking assemblage of structures, rather than one house. It was known simply as Morris's.
But only a single pistol replied to Cleggett's now and he was confident that one of the men was out of the fight. But the other man, blindly or with intention, was stumbling nearer as he fired.
Could the Jasper B., a bone in her teeth and her tackle humming, ever again sail through Cleggett's dreams? For a moment, if the worst must be known, he was almost disgusted with the Jasper B., considered as a ship. For a moment he was willing to believe that Cap'n Abernethy was nothing but a Long Island truck farmer, and NOT of a seafaring family at all.
It had been Cleggett's earlier thought to take the man alive, if possible, and turn him over to the authorities. But now that Loge was taken he burned with the wish for personal combat with him. He desired to be the agent of society, and put an end to Logan Black himself. Cleggett, as he gazed at the fellow lying prone upon the deck, could not repress a murmur of dissatisfaction.
He drove them, still lashing out at each other with their bare feet, into the water again, and after a more prolonged ducking whipped them, at a plunging gallop, upon the Annabel Lee, where they disappeared from Cleggett's view. While Cleggett was still wondering what significance could underlie this unusual form of matutinal exercise, Dr. Farnsworth came out of the forecastle and beckoned to him.
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