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Whether he's on the spot or not I don't care not the value of a reefer's button, so long as I can show my 'lines. I'll give you 'alf an hour to make up your minds an' settle atween you who's goin' to be the lucky one." And with that she left the room, again carefully locking the door and taking away the key. Truly were they now between the devil and the deep sea.

Why, Patty, it's the biggest journalistic fish that has ever been landed in this office. Andrew Reefer's opinion on the bill will have a tremendous influence. We'll run the interview as a leader in a special edition that is under way already. Of course, he must have been ready to give the information to the public or nothing would have induced him to open his mouth.

It was upon a particular name, in the list of officers and midshipmen, that Frank's fingers was placed. "That is my own brother," said he; "he must have got a reefer's warrant since I left home. Now, White-Jacket, what's to be done?

Reefer's carved, granite face, and said with a frank smile: "I have come to interview you on behalf of the Chronicle about the railroad bill. It was my brother who had the assignment, but he has missed his train and I have come in his place because, you see, it is so important to us. So much depends on this assignment. Perhaps Mr.

However, as Sir Arthur's billet may be of more importance than the reefer's, I must intrust its safe keeping to your hands. Now, then, don't look so devilish sleepy, but seem to understand what I am saying. This is the address: 'La Senhora Inez da Silviero, Rua Nuova, opposite the barber's. You'll not neglect it. So now, my dear boy, till our next meeting, adios!" "Stop!

You'll scrape up that slush you spilled, before you eat so much as a reefer's nut." I had to go on deck again for another hour, while I scraped up the slush, which was, surely, spilled as much by himself as by me, since he was not looking where he was going any more than I was. I got no breakfast.