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But it was not until the steamer had given them three Manila and two steel hawsers, four weak too weak mooring-chains, and a couple of old and frayed warping-lines, that the coming up to the bow of an anchor-chain of six-inch link told them that the end was near, that the steamer had exhausted her supply of tow-lines, and that her presumably sane skipper would not give them his last means of anchoring the other chain.
Morgan Robertson - Where Angels Fear to Tread and Other Stories of the Sea
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