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He played his best, obeying with his natural clumsiness the shrieked commands of Pollyooly; but he did not again arise to a really meritorious feat. Nevertheless, the grand duke was content with him. He did not indeed watch him very closely; he had chiefly eyes for Pollyooly. Once he said with enthusiasm: "She is ze gompanion Adalbert 'af need of."
It may have been O'Malley wondered without actually asking that the man who shared the cabin with the strangers made some appeal for re-arrangement, but in any case Captain Burgenfelder approached the Irishman that afternoon on the bridge and asked if he would object to having them in his stateroom for the balance of the voyage. "Your present gompanion geds off at Naples," he said.
"You know what that fellow been if he been here now," he volunteered at parting. "I dell you, you bed your life! He been a gompanion unt partner in full with that great American train-robber, Chessie Chames. Sure he would. My grantmutter she seen him like she could maybe reach out a finger unt touch him!" "I'll call him Nap," promised Bean.
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