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At Saltash's behest and with his help, he presently crept back to his own cabin to divest himself of his hotel-livery and don the very roomy suit of pajamas that Murray the steward had served out to him. Then, barefooted, stumbling, and shivering, he returned to where Saltash leaned smoking in the narrow dressing-room, awaiting him. Saltash's dark face wore a certain look of grimness.
He still wore the brown and gold hotel-livery as there was nothing else on board to fit him, but from Gibraltar a small packet of notes was dispatched to Antonio by Saltash in settlement of the loan. "Now I've bought you body and soul," he said to Toby, whose shining look showed naught but satisfaction at the announcement.
"Damnation!" he burst forth again furiously. "What are you doing? Leave that boy alone!" A man in evening-dress was gripping a fair-haired lad, who wore the hotel-livery, by the back of his neck and raining merciless blows upon his uncovered head.
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