debation

Updated: May 25, 2025

Look sharp, Haldane, there's no time to lose; the poor fellow's in a very ticklish state and they want to get him up on deck in order to examine his injuries better than they can below in the stoke-hold!" "Aye, aye, sir!" I answered, darting aft immediately, to avoid further debation, towards the saloon door under the poop. "I'm off, sir, at once!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea