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The stolid youth selected by Kassim for that service performed it faithfully, and was rewarded by being suddenly tipped, head first, into the schooner's empty hold by the ex-beachcomber and the Chinaman, who thereupon hastened to put on the hatches. What became of him afterwards Brown did not say. 'Brown's object was to gain time by fooling with Kassim's diplomacy.
Cunningham appeared small and boyish beside the ex-beachcomber. "I'm speaking to you decently, Flint, when I ought to bash in your head." The tone was gentle and level. "Why don't you try it?" The expectant men thereupon witnessed a feat that was not only deadly in its precision but oddly grotesque.
Brown, while bargaining, had a sort of grim enjoyment in thinking of his wretched schooner, with nothing but a heap of dirt in her hold, that stood for an armed ship, and a Chinaman and a lame ex-beachcomber of Levuka on board, who represented all his many men.
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