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Kit did so, feeling that he ought to indulge a sick man's caprice, and Adam, after giving him clear directions, was quiet for some minutes. Then he began again, with an effort: "Vanhuyten told Hattie, and I found out afterwards, that she had had trouble at home.
The anchor came up and when the engines shook the ship Mayne pulled the whistle-line and a long blast rolled across the woods. Next moment a rocket soared and burst in a shower of colored lights. "Vanhuyten and Askew's signal! The head of the house is making his last trip," the captain remarked.
Reckon they've first claim on the soft jobs and don't belong to the world of fighting men. But I guess they listen when money talks." Kit said nothing, although he thought Adam's concluding remark significant, and the old man went on: "Don Hernando helped me on my feet when Vanhuyten and I first came along this coast, with about a thousand dollars and a worn-out schooner.
"When I met him first, he was a customs officer with some perquisites and a salary that paid for liquor and tobacco. Vanhuyten and I ran the old Mercedes then, and Van made a mistake that put us at the fellow's mercy. There was a good case for confiscating the schooner, which would have given Alvarez a lift while we went broke.
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