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It will kill any existing cancer, and cure it in about one week. I have not experimented with leprosy beyond knowing that it is cured very quickly. This is an outside job. Don't annoy the passengers with questions. The gas used cannot be stopped by any material I know of. You can try it with any mask but don't use the C-32L. It will react with the gas to kill.
If we had already come from Fowey to Bodinnick we should find that the ferryman would carry us back without further payment; the outward fee included a return not like the ferry of Charon which had no return for passengers.
When the sun rose again the captain found that they had been driven seventy-five miles from the site of New York, and yet, although the sky had now partly cleared, the violence of the wind had not diminished. Captain Arms had the passengers' breakfast served in their rooms, simply sending them word that all would be well in the end.
The other passengers in the coach were three men who were interested in mining in the neighborhood of Helena, and who, like himself, were bound for that place. They were all, however, rather wearied with their journey from Billings, and very much disposed to sleep.
On the same day the British mail steamer Trent sailed from that port, having on board as passengers James M. Mason, of Virginia, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, Confederate plenipotentiaries to France and England.
As they will, however, appear upon the stage when required to perform their parts, we shall at present confine ourselves to a description of the captain and the passengers. Captain Drawlock was a man of about fifty years of age.
A near friend of mine, a lady, was once in the cars with Emerson, and when they stopped for the refreshment of the passengers he was very desirous of procuring something at the station for her solace. Presently he advanced upon her with a cup of tea in one hand and a wedge of pie in the other, such a wedge!
"I was a passenger in your ship to Hong-Kong last year." "O Monsieur Frôler!" replied Captain Rayburn, grasping the proffered hand. "Of course I remember you very well, for I don't often get so fully acquainted with my passengers as I did with you; and I only wished I could talk French with you. But you speak English as well as I can, so that it made no difference. Do you reside here?"
"I had wanted to be a locomotive engineer, sir," was the boy's reply, "but now I think I'll stay in the city." "It was the excitement of the life that appealed to you, was it?" "Yes, sir. I guess so." "True, there's a good deal of responsibility there, when you stand with your hand on the throttle of a fast express, knowing that the lives of the passengers are in your hand.
How it could have come of that colorlessness, whether through long sickness or long residence in a tropical climate, was a question that perplexed another of the passengers, who would have expected to hear the lady speak any language in the world rather than English; and to whom her companion or attendant was hardly less than herself a mystery, being a dragon-like, elderish female, clearly a Yankee by birth, but apparently of many years' absence from home.
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