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Mesman, and also to a Danish shopkeeper, who could both speak English and who promised to assist me in finding a place to stay, suitable for my pursuits. In the meantime, I went to a kind of clubhouse, in default of any hotel in the place. Macassar was the first Dutch town I had visited, and I found it prettier and cleaner than any I had yet seen in the East.
Heemskirk's pretty smart, too. They say she's fitted out in her cabin like a gentleman's yacht. That Allen is a sort of gentleman too. An extravagant beggar." A young man entered smartly Messrs. Mesman Brothers' office on the "front," bubbling with some further information. "Oh, yes; that's the Bonito for certain! But you don't know the story I've heard just now.
It was an annihilating question; it struck his consciousness like a thunderbolt and brought a sudden night upon the chaos of his thoughts even as he walked. He did not check his pace. He went on in the darkness for another three strides, and then fell. The good Mesman had to push on as far as the hospital before he found him. The doctor there talked of a slight heatstroke. Nothing very much.
When well made it is a very refreshing drink, and we often took a draught at some of the little sheds dignified by the name of bazaars, which are scattered about the country wherever there is any traffic. One day Mr. Mesman told me of a larger piece of forest where he sometimes went to shoot deer, but he assured me it was much further off, and that there were no birds.
I remember." It was that knowledge which had brought trouble to his face at the first news of the wreck. He took up his hat. "Where are you going, Mr. Mesman?" "I am going to look for Allen. I think he must be ashore. Does anybody know?" No one of those present knew. And Mr. Mesman went out on the "front" to make inquiries.
And I felt as though I were an accomplice in this perfidy, since I did to a certain extent encourage Jasper. Yet I had warned him as well. "The man seemed to have gone crazy on this point," wrote my friend. "He went to Mesman with his story.
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