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to use the dirk, yet only by using the dirk could he have got out of the long arms that held him fast. For a moment they swayed back and forth; then, when others were hurrying to aid the carpenter, the door of the great cabin opened.

A rumble of laughter issued, then the Old One’s voice, “Lay him here in the steerage and shackle him fast to the mizzen. He may well be thankful that I am a merciful man.”

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