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"Perhaps we shall deliver them over to the Chinese authorities at Wanghai." "What? My dear fellow, go and beg the captain to hang 'em at once out of their misery. It will be a kindness. Do you know what a Chinese prison is?" "No." "Then I do. It would be a mercy to kill them." "The Chinese authorities may wish to make an example of them so as to repress piracy."
It gives the idea of our being in trouble; and if we keep on close outside the islands, it may draw the scoundrels that is, if they are there." "Yes, sir, if they are there," said the lieutenant. "How long do you reckon it will take us to get abreast of the reef where that barque lay?" "We ought to be there by noon, sir, I should say." "That will do. We shall seem to be making for Wanghai."
I had a good look through the glass at the junk, and made my report. "I think it's only a big trader, sir," I said. "Looks like the boats we saw at Amoy, and as if she were going up to Wanghai." "Yes, that's it, I think," said Captain Thwaites to Mr Reardon. Then he sharply turned to me and gave me a dry look.
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