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In sheer horror and despair Tregeagle fled. Immediately the demons were on his track, chasing him so closely that he could not stay to dip his limpet-shell in the foaming water. Feeling that they were upon him, he rose with a cry of anguish, and fled across the pool, thus gaining a temporary advantage, for spirits of evil cannot cross water.
He went out four days ago, and isn't expected back yet. That's more like the French lugger we rode in Captain Gualtiere's." "Yah! Nonsense!" "Well, but it is," I said. "That has three masts; it's a chasse maree. Jonas's boat has only two masts a regular lugger." "You've got sand in your left eye and an old limpet-shell over the other," grumbled Bob. "French boat, indeed!
They knew that the dead man's chance at the Day of Doom was not a good one, but in the meantime they would do what they could. It was decided to give him a perpetual penance, which might keep the evil spirits at a distance. He was led away to the shores of Dosmare Pool, on the desolate Bodmin Moors, and there set to drain the pool with a leaky limpet-shell.
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