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This was hoisted out again, filled with the sweet fluid which the keg contained; and which was at once administered, first to Lilly Lalee, then to William's own especial protector, Ben Brace; and lastly, after a fresh draw from the keg, to the real owner of the wine, the Coromantee.
"Ef 'im be dat, wha' den?" inquired the Coromantee, seeing that Brace had stopped short in what he was going to say. "Why, only that we're in an ugly mess. There's no reason to think they have picked up a stock o' provisions, since we parted wi' them. I don't know how they've stuck it out, that is, supposin' it be them. They may have got shark-meat like ourselves; or they have lived upon "
Could a fiendish conception have occurred to the Coromantee, to lessen the number of those who might require food and water? It is true the suspicion had barely shaped itself in the brain of the boy. Still, it had shaped itself, to be succeeded by a feeling of remorse for the wrong which he had done to Snowball in entertaining it.
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