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Updated: May 2, 2025
We'll pick up my luggage from the Billy as we go by, I was sailing on her for Babo in the morning." Deacon shook hands all around, after receiving a final pledge of good luck on Karo-Karo. "Does Tom Butler play cards?" he asked Grief. "Solitaire," was the answer. "Then I'll teach him double solitaire."
Grief showed signs of debating, but Deacon cried: "No; I won't permit it. I'm not a quitter. If it's Karo-Karo, it's Karo-Karo. There's nothing more to it." "Right," said Grief, as he began the shuffle. "If he's the right stuff to go to Karo-Karo, Karo-Karo won't do him any harm." The game was close and hard. Three times they divided the deck between them and "cards" was not scored.
In the second place, David Grief is in these waters, cruising on the Gunga, which is shortly scheduled to leave here for Karo-Karo. I spoke to Grief, on the Gunga, in Sandfly Passage, day before yesterday. He was putting a trader ashore on a new station. He said he was going to call in at Babo, and then come on to Goboto. He has had ample time to get here. I have heard an anchor drop.
But two years of work as trader on Karo-Karo would mean something. I'll bet the ten thousand I've won from you against two years of your time. If you win, the money's yours. If you lose, you take the job at Karo-Karo and sail at daylight. Now that's what might be called real action. Will you play?" Deacon could not speak. His throat lumped and he nodded his head as he reached for the cards.
"Do you want further action?" The other sank down in his chair, strove to speak, but could not, licked his dry lips, and nodded his head. "Captain Donovan here sails at daylight in the Gunga for Karo-Karo," Grief began with seeming irrelevance. "Karo-Karo is a ring of sand in the sea, with a few thousand cocoa-nut trees. Pandanus grows there, but they can't grow sweet potatoes nor taro.
When you have repeated them aloud seven hundred and thirty Karo-Karo mornings I am confident they will be in your memory to stay. Lend me your pen, Mac. Now, let's see " He wrote steadily and rapidly for some minutes, then proceeded to read the matter aloud: "I must always remember that one man is as good as another, save and except when he thinks he is better.
"Naturally, you are wondering what it is all about. But have patience. As I have said, Captain Donovan sails on the annual trip to Karo-Karo at daylight to-morrow. Tom Butler is old, and getting quite helpless. I've tried to retire him to Australia, but he says he wants to remain and die on Karo-Karo, and he will in the next year or so. He's a queer old codger.
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