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Someone crossed the deck and went up to the side of the steamer. "O-o-o," was heard again, but nearer this time. "Yefim!" some one called in a low voice on the deck. "Yefimka!" "Well?" "Devil! Get up! Take the boat-hook." "O-o-o," someone moaned near by, and Foma, shuddering, stepped back from the window.
The queer sound came nearer and nearer and grew in strength, sobbed and died out in the darkness. While on the deck they whispered with alarm: "Yefimka! Get up! A guest is floating!" "Where?" came a hasty question, then bare feet began to patter about the deck, a bustle was heard, and two boat-hooks slipped down past the boy's face and almost noiselessly plunged into the water. "A gue-e-est!"
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