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<v Speaker 1>Getting impatient for baseball diseasing to start, have a touch

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<v Speaker 1>of spring fever. I want to get away from it all.

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<v Speaker 1>We offer you escape.

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<v Speaker 2>You are in mid ocean aboard a jink ship. Already

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<v Speaker 2>nine men have died, and do you know that some

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<v Speaker 2>malignant forces aimed at you from which you cannot escape?

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<v Speaker 1>Escape designed to free you from the four walls of

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<v Speaker 1>today for a half hour of high adventure.

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<v Speaker 2>Tonight we escape to the North Atlantic in the year

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen hundred and to a sailing ship whose very name

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<v Speaker 2>struck dread in sailors hearts. As Joseph Conrad told her

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<v Speaker 2>in his famous story The Brute, you.

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<v Speaker 3>Could never tell it. Just by looking at her.

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<v Speaker 4>Proud and strong and beautiful on the outside, you couldn't

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<v Speaker 4>see the black heart inside of her, and you'd never know.

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<v Speaker 4>She'd killed at least a dozen men and maybe more.

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<v Speaker 4>Or I knew her, knewer for the murderin she devil

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<v Speaker 4>she was.

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<v Speaker 3>I saw the day she.

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<v Speaker 4>Killed her first one, and I was there too when

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<v Speaker 4>she finally made a.

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<v Speaker 3>Big mistake and killed the wrong person.

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<v Speaker 2>For that was a long time later.

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<v Speaker 4>She had a name, all right, But after that first day,

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<v Speaker 4>her first killing, nobody with the family ever used it again.

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<v Speaker 4>Everyone else from that day on would look at her,

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<v Speaker 4>half afraid, half snarling, and they called her the brute.

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<v Speaker 4>I remember I was fourteen the day my father took

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<v Speaker 4>me down to the South Thames Boatyard to watch the

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<v Speaker 4>launching of the ship. My brother Charlie was there, of course,

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<v Speaker 4>eight years older than me, and very proud of his

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<v Speaker 4>one gold stripe now that he'd be made Enoficer in

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<v Speaker 4>the App's line. Charlie and father were talking. I just

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<v Speaker 4>stood and listened to the moon. Didn't say much of

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<v Speaker 4>anything myself.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at her, Dad, ever see a ship in your

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<v Speaker 2>life with lines like that? I bet you allowed sail

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<v Speaker 2>any clip on the China Trade.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh that remains to be seen, Charley.

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<v Speaker 2>How soon are they going to launcher any minute?

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<v Speaker 3>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>I'd give a lot to be sailing on her instead

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<v Speaker 2>of on the Malcolm Aps.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh the Malcolm's a good ship, soun as good as

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<v Speaker 5>ship as into the Apps family owned.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm not kicking. I'm glad enough to be through

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<v Speaker 2>apprentice ship and get my commission. But even at that,

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<v Speaker 2>I'd almost rather be a bosoner on this ship than

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<v Speaker 2>play it made on the Malcolm.

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<v Speaker 3>Stand at Colchesters to be her captain.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's right, all was commanded with the absent Son's line.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at the size of her dad, she's a full

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand tons less half a time, Charlie. Well, good morning,

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<v Speaker 2>mister Germy. Mister Wilmot, hello, need how.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you do sir?

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<v Speaker 6>No, childlie, she came to one thousand, nine hundred and

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<v Speaker 6>ninety nine and a half when we measured it.

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<v Speaker 2>Roupe well, two thousand tons or not, mister Germy, you'll

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<v Speaker 2>never build a better ship than this one.

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<v Speaker 6>I hadn't know, charlebe I built her the way mister

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<v Speaker 6>Opps wants there. She's big and she's stout.

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<v Speaker 2>But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>And what's your reason for saying that?

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<v Speaker 6>No reason that makes any sense about the devil's own

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<v Speaker 6>time with her cabin doors gemming when they shouldn't, edge

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<v Speaker 6>covers that wouldn't fit after they'd been measured up, blocks.

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<v Speaker 2>Fell in for no reason at all.

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know, mister Wilmot, But if she were a

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<v Speaker 6>human being, I'd say that maybe she's insane. Oh come now,

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<v Speaker 6>you've been working too hardens to Germany, better take a

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<v Speaker 6>vacation now that she's finished.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, like Goodine, I say, let's Maggie Colchest up there,

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<v Speaker 2>the captain's niece. Is she going to do the christening?

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<v Speaker 6>That's right, Telly, and I better get down below now

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<v Speaker 6>my own men are going to knock the stays loose

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<v Speaker 6>and let her slide down into the water.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh good, mister Jermy, and aked mister come on board.

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<v Speaker 2>Put the celebration off which he's launched, Bring the boy.

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<v Speaker 3>And thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>We should be there and let her go any minute now, Dad,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to sail on that ship someday.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh you probably sail on a lot of Apps Line

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<v Speaker 4>ships before you through, Charley.

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<v Speaker 2>Look, look they give them Megan the champagne now, and

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<v Speaker 2>she's going to christ Listen.

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<v Speaker 3>The f yepslum so that their name? All right?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not glad.

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<v Speaker 3>She started to booth. There she goes, so look at

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<v Speaker 3>that speed. I never saw it. Damn look out.

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<v Speaker 2>Lord, if I'm right into the way, isn't she She

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<v Speaker 2>went over him.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't fall.

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<v Speaker 3>A timber rolled off the deck and knocked him under.

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<v Speaker 2>She said, right over him, mister Jermy. The man who

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<v Speaker 2>built her for his lunched in blood.

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<v Speaker 3>If that means anything, he's a brute. Of the murders. Now,

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<v Speaker 3>Charley still think you'd like to sail Anna.

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<v Speaker 2>It was an accident. It doesn't mean anything.

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<v Speaker 3>Perhaps not.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll sail on her some day, sooner or later.

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<v Speaker 3>I will sail honor. Well.

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<v Speaker 4>The way things worked out, I was the one to

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<v Speaker 4>sail on her first, instead of Charlie. He'd gone on

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<v Speaker 4>out to the orient of all the Malcolm. And six

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<v Speaker 4>months later, when I started my apprenticeship, I found the

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<v Speaker 4>company had assigned me to report to Captain Colchester on

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<v Speaker 4>the Apps Family or the Brute.

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<v Speaker 3>As everybody was calling up privately. There was some kind

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<v Speaker 3>of mix up.

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<v Speaker 4>In the sailing orders, and by the time I came

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<v Speaker 4>on board and Tug already had a line on the

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<v Speaker 4>big sailing ship and was starting to ease her stern

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<v Speaker 4>first out into the channel.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, now, hang up the flat.

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<v Speaker 4>Captain Colchester was at the tap of shouting orders to

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<v Speaker 4>the tug. Cap Jim and the mates were forward somewhere

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<v Speaker 4>handling the check line.

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<v Speaker 5>You've got the slap now all away.

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<v Speaker 4>I stood to the waist, waiting for a chance to

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<v Speaker 4>report in, and watching a young fellow about my own

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<v Speaker 4>age was doing something or another upper loft on the

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<v Speaker 4>mismast above me. The tug had drawn the line out taut,

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<v Speaker 4>but the ship hadn't started to move yet.

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<v Speaker 3>You've got no way yet. While I jed up your four.

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<v Speaker 4>Speed, the tug was churning the water to froth, and

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<v Speaker 4>the howser was tight as a bowstone, but we still

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<v Speaker 4>didn't move.

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<v Speaker 2>All.

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<v Speaker 4>Then suddenly the ship gave a lurch and started back

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<v Speaker 4>like a bucking horse. The men foreted no chance to

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<v Speaker 4>ease the kit check tack cable, and a second later

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<v Speaker 4>had snapped the ship tuned down back and then sheared

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<v Speaker 4>off to bring off the smash against the pier head

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<v Speaker 4>that knocked me sprawling on the deck.

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<v Speaker 3>And at that moment.

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<v Speaker 4>The lad who'd been working aloft on the mouse crashed

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<v Speaker 4>down onto the deck, not ten feet away from me,

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<v Speaker 4>and he lay there without moving.

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<v Speaker 5>Give a hand up here on my waistraight, young hawk

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<v Speaker 5>has just fell out of the tops.

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<v Speaker 3>Eh.

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<v Speaker 2>That's too bad?

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<v Speaker 3>Is he? Is he dead?

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<v Speaker 5>Captain Colchester, he's dead, boy, Get a hold of yourself.

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<v Speaker 5>Don't stand at tremblin. You never seen anybody die before, yes, sir,

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<v Speaker 5>on the day they launched this ship h jermainn Eh,

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<v Speaker 5>your young ned Wilman, I suppose the new apprentice. Yes, sir,

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<v Speaker 5>no doubt you may have heard this ship called by

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<v Speaker 5>an unpleasant name once in a while, Yes, sir, the Brute. Well,

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<v Speaker 5>you'll be kind enough to remember why you are born.

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<v Speaker 5>That her name is the Apse family, and she's had

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<v Speaker 5>her share of accidents, the same as any other ship.

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<v Speaker 5>Is that quite clear? Yes, sir, get along forward with

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<v Speaker 5>you and stow your gear away on the folks. You'll

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<v Speaker 5>take over young Hawkins duties for the time.

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<v Speaker 3>Be Yes, sir.

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<v Speaker 4>I sailed aboard the Brute for the next four years

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<v Speaker 4>and watched her kill nine men during the time we

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<v Speaker 4>got so we try to outguess her, try to figure

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<v Speaker 4>out how she'd do it the next time. But no

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<v Speaker 4>matter what we think, we never were right.

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<v Speaker 3>And it wasn't only the killing, it was everything.

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<v Speaker 4>Most ships of little ways all their own, and you'll

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<v Speaker 4>learn about.

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<v Speaker 3>Him and allow for him, ah, but not her.

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<v Speaker 4>She was like a crazy woman. You never knew what

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<v Speaker 4>she'd do next. I remember once off the Gold Coast,

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<v Speaker 4>she ran before a gale for two days as pretty

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<v Speaker 4>as you please, and then broached to twice the same afternoon,

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<v Speaker 4>flung the helms and clean over the wheel the first

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<v Speaker 4>time and the second time swamped herself fore and aft

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<v Speaker 4>and split out every stitch of canvas. And after we

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<v Speaker 4>got the decks cleaned up, we found one seaman had

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<v Speaker 4>gone overboard.

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<v Speaker 3>He was her fifth I guess it was, or maybe

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<v Speaker 3>the sixth. Oh, she was beautiful.

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<v Speaker 4>The Aps family was big and proud and beautiful, and

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<v Speaker 4>along with it a killer, a.

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<v Speaker 3>Black hearted sea going route.

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<v Speaker 4>My brother Charlie was on the China Run all that time,

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<v Speaker 4>first on the Malcolm and later on the Lucy Epps.

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<v Speaker 4>I we never happened to hitpot on the same time. Finally,

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<v Speaker 4>the time of my apprenticeship was up. We boomed into London.

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<v Speaker 4>At the end of the trip. I went before the

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<v Speaker 4>board of my papers. I guess they figured anybody who

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<v Speaker 4>could stay alive for four years on the Brute must

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<v Speaker 4>be a seaman. Anyway, I passed, and mister Apps handed

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<v Speaker 4>me my sailing orders along with the commission. I was

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<v Speaker 4>assigned as third mate to Captain Colchester on the Apps family.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, congratulations and ed glad you got to stay with us.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks Captain Colchester.

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<v Speaker 5>You've you'd a hard work and a prentice, and I've

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<v Speaker 5>no doubt what you'll be a good officer. In fact,

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<v Speaker 5>we have a man on board who'll make sure of that.

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<v Speaker 3>Why what do you mean, cap'na got a new first

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<v Speaker 3>mate in this trip?

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<v Speaker 5>Come in, Charlie, Charlie, Well hello, they youngster. I say

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<v Speaker 5>you've been doing a bit of growing the.

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<v Speaker 2>Last five years.

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<v Speaker 3>Charlie. I didn't even know you were.

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<v Speaker 4>In port in for a week down country there, I

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<v Speaker 4>hear you fool the board. Careful man, you're talking about

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<v Speaker 4>your own third mate, so.

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<v Speaker 2>They tell me, And you'll be jumping lively on this trip.

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<v Speaker 3>Mebore, easy, easy, don't forget. I know this ship and

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<v Speaker 3>you don't.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'll learn her quick enough. Been wanting the chance

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<v Speaker 2>for a long time, and between us, I think we

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<v Speaker 2>can even break this jinx. Lad.

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<v Speaker 5>Shall be no talk of a jinx on this trip,

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<v Speaker 5>at least not in the cabin, as long as Maggie's

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<v Speaker 5>going along.

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<v Speaker 3>Maggie.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's Maggie?

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<v Speaker 5>Ask your brother. I think he's the one who talked

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<v Speaker 5>her into the trip, though she claims it's for a

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<v Speaker 5>healthy I'll leave you two to get acquainted. We'll be

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<v Speaker 5>about ten days loading. If you've got any plans.

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<v Speaker 3>What's he talking about? Charlie.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's Maggie his niece, Maggie Colchester. You remember her, the

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<v Speaker 3>Holy well he's not dead.

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<v Speaker 2>I told you where I've been spending shortly is for

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<v Speaker 3>No, Charlie, I didn't know anything about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, let me show you something. Yeah, Now, if I

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<v Speaker 2>take a look.

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<v Speaker 3>Blimey, that's all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I bought it in Cape Town. It's the blue

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<v Speaker 3>Is it big enough to go on her finger?

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<v Speaker 2>It's big enough, all right. That's where it's going if

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<v Speaker 2>I can talk her into it.

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<v Speaker 3>And who's going to talk who into what?

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<v Speaker 2>Molly Er, Maggie. I was saying that I hoped I

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<v Speaker 2>could talk you into going ashore for dinner with me.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh were you now, you big liar?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, Maggie, this is my brother Ned, Ned, This is Maggie.

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<v Speaker 3>How do you do? And are you into the officers too?

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<v Speaker 4>I'm the new third mate.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I certainly help you all more truthful than your brother.

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<v Speaker 2>Maggie's invitation to dinner I am accepting with pleasure.

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<v Speaker 3>See you both later, all right are But Nah, Charlie,

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<v Speaker 3>she's lovely.

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<v Speaker 2>She's more than that, Ned, she's everything as far as

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<v Speaker 2>I'm concerned.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, in that case, good luck. I hope you get her.

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<v Speaker 2>And we'll see about that. Anyway. With Maggie aboard, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got to make sure this jink ship stays on good

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<v Speaker 2>behavior for once. It'll be the first time if she does,

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<v Speaker 2>when it's the first time we've had both the Wilmots

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<v Speaker 2>on board. The gunner. We'll tame her down, Ned, we'll

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<v Speaker 2>make a calm and peaceful as an old warehouse. Just

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<v Speaker 7>Ah.

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<v Speaker 3>And the strange part of it was he was right.

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<v Speaker 4>We stood out past Grave's End and made the passage

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<v Speaker 4>to the China coast in a hundred and twenty one

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<v Speaker 4>days of her finest weather you've had ever hoped to meet,

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<v Speaker 4>and for the first time in her bloody life, the

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<v Speaker 4>old ship settled down and sailed herself as neat as

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<v Speaker 4>you please. Charlie and I talk about it sometimes when

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<v Speaker 4>Maggie wasn't around. He'd always laugh and say, the brute

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<v Speaker 4>knew when she'd met her match, but she didn't dare

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<v Speaker 3>But the two of us.

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<v Speaker 4>When I was more ready to give the credit to

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<v Speaker 4>Maggie to think maybe she'd charmed the old murderers away,

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<v Speaker 4>she charmed all the rest of us.

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<v Speaker 3>From the second day out.

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<v Speaker 4>Maggie was the secret darling of every man on board.

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<v Speaker 4>She was all over the ship, here, there, and everywhere,

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<v Speaker 4>with red tam and her bright blue eyes, never still

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<v Speaker 4>a minute at having the time of her life. If

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<v Speaker 4>she'd come along for her health, she'd found it. Before

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<v Speaker 4>we passed Gravesend, we raised the storm on the passage

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<v Speaker 4>back and ran four days in a heavy gale.

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<v Speaker 3>I stood by and held my breath.

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<v Speaker 4>Ready for anything, and nothing happened. The old lady App's

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<v Speaker 4>family held up her head and sailed along like a

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<v Speaker 4>sea gull. Any time before she'd have buried her gunnelle

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<v Speaker 4>in the quartering seas.

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<v Speaker 3>But now all the water she shipped you could put

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<v Speaker 3>in a teacup.

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<v Speaker 4>One hundred and nine days from Hong Kong, we raised

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<v Speaker 4>the Dungkness light, and early the next morning picked up

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<v Speaker 4>a tug off.

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<v Speaker 3>Sheered us for the long tow up river to London.

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<v Speaker 4>The ship followed along on the toe line like a

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<v Speaker 4>puppy on a leash, and we moved slowly up the

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<v Speaker 4>river past Graves End. All of us were glad to

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<v Speaker 4>be home, but Maggie most of all, I think, because

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<v Speaker 4>she'd never been at sea so long before. I had

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<v Speaker 4>to smile at the way she danced around on the bows,

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<v Speaker 4>picking out one landmark after another as we came to them,

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<v Speaker 4>sometimes standing up on the spare anchor we'd taken in

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<v Speaker 4>on the fore deck in order to get a better

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<v Speaker 4>look at the river banks ahead. She wasn't wearing the

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<v Speaker 4>ring yet, but I knew she was going to, and

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<v Speaker 4>it was only teasing Charlie as long as possible.

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<v Speaker 3>What's wrong, Ned?

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<v Speaker 4>A tug stopped her engines solision up ahead in the channel. Charlie,

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<v Speaker 4>looks like a yawl and a schooner fell together.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Oh, looks like they're turning it up now because

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<v Speaker 2>we can move again a couple of minutes. Maggie, why

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<v Speaker 2>don't you go on the after deck.

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<v Speaker 3>You're on the way up forward there.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm all right, Charlie, stop worrying.

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<v Speaker 3>We're almost better. Save your orders with the crude, Charlie,

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<v Speaker 3>she ranks.

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<v Speaker 2>You take orders from her any day. Yes, we are

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<v Speaker 2>almost to Ned. We've had a lucky voyage.

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<v Speaker 4>Who's the first halfway peaceful trip I've ever made in

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<v Speaker 4>the old brute. I told you we'd tame her down.

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<v Speaker 4>She's turned over a new leaf. Ned well, it won't

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<v Speaker 4>last long if she keeps on shearing off there and

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<v Speaker 4>drifting back down the channel.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh, yes, we're heading straight for those fishing smacks.

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<v Speaker 4>Better have the tug start up and hold a toad

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<v Speaker 4>line on her. I've seen her do this before.

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<v Speaker 3>Ahi.

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<v Speaker 2>The tug take up the slack and get us straight

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<v Speaker 2>in the channel, hurled it against the current.

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<v Speaker 4>Any other ship would have held teddy for the two

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<v Speaker 4>or three minutes we stopped.

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<v Speaker 3>Button up the old Rapp's family.

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<v Speaker 4>And now when the tug tightened up in the holes

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<v Speaker 4>are pulling at an angler across her bows. She wouldn't respond,

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<v Speaker 4>wouldn't budge. The old girl wanted her own way.

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<v Speaker 3>She was just as stubborn as ever. A hoil a tag.

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<v Speaker 2>We're still drifting up and up to full speed, Come fander.

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<v Speaker 2>When I saw a ship back like this.

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<v Speaker 4>The heavy hawser was pulled so tight it was humming,

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<v Speaker 4>and tug's pedals with her engines full, whipped up the

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<v Speaker 4>water like a mill race, And then it happened. The

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<v Speaker 4>heavy towing chok tore loose.

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<v Speaker 3>From the deck.

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<v Speaker 4>The Hausam began sliding across the bow, ripping out rails

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<v Speaker 4>tuncheons like masticks.

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<v Speaker 3>And my heart was going to sleep under the troops

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<v Speaker 3>of the spare anchor, the anchor that Maggie was tending on.

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<v Speaker 2>Maggie, get off the ancle, look at.

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<v Speaker 4>She tried to jump clear, but she was too late.

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<v Speaker 4>The great anchor had tipped up on its side, clasped

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<v Speaker 4>her about the waist like a monster's arm of steel.

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<v Speaker 4>It had carried her with it and swung down and

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<v Speaker 4>over and smashed against the side of the ship.

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<v Speaker 3>She went into the water.

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<v Speaker 2>Take tart of the deck net.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going in after ned, Ned, was that Maggie, Yes, sir,

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<v Speaker 3>she's she's overboard, Captain Cortester.

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<v Speaker 2>Maggie, Oh the dirty.

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<v Speaker 3>Murder and brute. Now it's women she's killing. Let go

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<v Speaker 3>the port all the simcy. Yes, I ket a bottle.

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<v Speaker 4>I hadn't told Charlie, and I didn't say anything about

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<v Speaker 4>it to Captain Colchester. But I stood there and I

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<v Speaker 4>knew it wasn't any use because I'd seen the way

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<v Speaker 4>the heavy anchor had carried her over and then swung

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<v Speaker 4>in to smash her against the bow before it dropped

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<v Speaker 4>her into the water. And I'd seen the way that

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<v Speaker 4>water beneath the bow.

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<v Speaker 3>Was all colored red.

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<v Speaker 4>They found her at late afternoon when the tide turned

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<v Speaker 4>and she floated clear of one of the mooring boys,

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<v Speaker 4>and the next morning we tied up in the landon docks.

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<v Speaker 4>The men had been happy at coming into their home pot,

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<v Speaker 4>but now they remembered how she'd been happy to their

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<v Speaker 4>own darling. I'd never before seen a cruel leavership so quiet,

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<v Speaker 4>and some of them, when they reached the wharf, turned

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<v Speaker 4>back and cursed her under that breath.

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<v Speaker 3>Finally, it was only Charlie and.

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<v Speaker 4>I alone on the quarter deck, and Captain Colchester was

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<v Speaker 4>below somewhere in the cabin.

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<v Speaker 3>She never wore ned the ring.

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<v Speaker 2>She never wore it.

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<v Speaker 3>She would have, Charlie, I know she meant to. She

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<v Speaker 3>was just having a little fun with you, that's all.

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<v Speaker 2>With all of a sudden board, Why did the blute

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<v Speaker 2>have to go for Maggie? Why?

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<v Speaker 3>I guess there's not much answer for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Cho was everything I wanted, everything.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, Charlie, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Know I talked into making the voyage. It was my idea.

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<v Speaker 3>It's no good, Charlie, this kind of thinking.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess you know that I don't know. She's everything

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted.

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<v Speaker 3>Charlie. Over here, Captain, I'm going ashore.

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<v Speaker 5>The ship keepers come aboard, and now to you free

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<v Speaker 5>to go whenever you're like thanks, sir, Charlie, I am nothing.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm resigning command in the morning. I'll never sit foot

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<v Speaker 5>and board her again as long.

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<v Speaker 2>As I live.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel the same way, sir.

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<v Speaker 5>Well come into the company office in a day or

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<v Speaker 5>two and sign out for the log.

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<v Speaker 3>Good day, gentlemen. Charlie, we better go ashore too.

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<v Speaker 2>We're down here, yes, I I suppose we are.

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<v Speaker 3>I lerange to have our gear picked up later. There's

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<v Speaker 3>no use of captain. I missed him, but but yard,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm off. The main mast fell right behind him. I

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<v Speaker 3>have missed me a murdering room. And that was your

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<v Speaker 3>last chime.

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<v Speaker 2>Ned that yard was made faster dunkenness, and now it

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<v Speaker 2>falls out of the top. So the ship lying still

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<v Speaker 2>at the wharf, Yes, Charlie, come on, let's go ashore.

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<v Speaker 2>Wasn't the devil satisfied for one trip? So now way

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<v Speaker 2>of stopping her. How many waters you want to kill? Charlie,

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<v Speaker 2>mad thed bake me home.

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<v Speaker 4>Charlie was ten years older by the time we reached home,

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<v Speaker 4>and it was two weeks before he'd do anything more

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<v Speaker 4>than sit in his room and stare at the wall,

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<v Speaker 4>saying nothing. Captain Colchester carried out his threat and resigned

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<v Speaker 4>from the company the morning after we docked, and I

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<v Speaker 4>filed my application for a transfer. The Apps family was

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<v Speaker 4>reloaded and ready to sail, but she stayed on, lying

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<v Speaker 4>at the wharf with nobody to take her out. And

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<v Speaker 4>that's the way things stood for two weeks until one

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<v Speaker 4>morning a bomb shell dropped.

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<v Speaker 2>All Ned, Charlie.

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<v Speaker 3>I wondered where you went this morning?

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<v Speaker 2>And I left the house heard how do you feel fine? Ned,

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<v Speaker 2>mister Apps tells me you've applied for the transfer another ship.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yes I did.

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<v Speaker 2>As a matter of fact, you saw a man Apps

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<v Speaker 2>as I stopped in the office this morning. Ned. It's

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<v Speaker 2>up to you, of course, but I hope you'll change

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<v Speaker 2>your mind another chance, the ship says tomorrow morning.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, so they finally found somebody crazy enough to take

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<v Speaker 4>her out?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, they did.

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<v Speaker 3>Me you you're going to skip of the brute.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right, Ned, But I I to a short voyage

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<v Speaker 2>north Atlantic run. You're afully glad to have you along,

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<v Speaker 2>somebody I can depend on. If you feel like signing

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<v Speaker 2>on again.

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<v Speaker 4>Charlie, of course it's up to you, all right, Charlie,

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<v Speaker 4>I'll sign on again. We boomed out past the Sheerness

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<v Speaker 4>light and headed off, hugging.

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<v Speaker 3>A lee shore in the stiff breeze.

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<v Speaker 4>The ship drove herhead as steady as a barge, with

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<v Speaker 4>scarcely a roller or quiver. But in spite of the

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<v Speaker 4>smooth and easy way she handled, I couldn't help feeling uneasy.

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<v Speaker 4>I could sense the black spirit of her brooding somewhere

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<v Speaker 4>down inside, mocking and taunting us with her bloody memories

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<v Speaker 4>and waiting for a new chance. By nightfall, we were

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<v Speaker 4>running hard in along the Kettling coast, where those rocky

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<v Speaker 4>headlands break.

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<v Speaker 3>At intervals out of the shelving sandy beaches.

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<v Speaker 4>The onshore wind held steady in our quarter, and the

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<v Speaker 4>sun sank down behind the land some three miles away.

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<v Speaker 4>It wasn't quite full dark yet when Charlie sent for me.

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<v Speaker 4>I came up to where he was standing alone near

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<v Speaker 4>the wheel let.

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<v Speaker 3>You ned right, Charlie. Person said you wanted to see me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I did send for your ned held us said

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<v Speaker 2>he is regards close the wind. I've been standing here

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about Maggie ned A. She scrambled around over the decks,

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<v Speaker 2>making friends with everybody, having the time of her life.

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<v Speaker 3>Charlie, you've got to stop it.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm all right. I like to think about her. It's

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<v Speaker 4>this ship and all the memories around it. It's what

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<v Speaker 4>I was afraid owner.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all right, ned I want you to take charge

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<v Speaker 2>of the crew and give an order. Of course you'll

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<v Speaker 2>question the order, but you'll carry it out anyway. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you understand what's what's the order? Charlie? Have all hands

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<v Speaker 2>prepared to abandon ship?

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<v Speaker 3>But why there's nothing wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>Mister Wilmot. It is not an officer's place to question

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<v Speaker 2>an order, but the captain. You'll lose your turn. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>you can give the order now, mister Wilmot.

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<v Speaker 3>Charlie, I can't let you very well. Captain.

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<v Speaker 5>All hands on deck stand by the boats, repair abandoned ship.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, helmsman, find your place in the boats. I'll

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<v Speaker 4>take over the wheel. I sir, you don't know what

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<v Speaker 4>you're doing, Charlie, We're in no danger. There's no reason

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<v Speaker 4>to abandon ship.

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<v Speaker 2>You're always in danger aboard this black hearted brute. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>put on the quarter now. You can get the boats

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<v Speaker 2>in the water when you yields.

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<v Speaker 3>Orry on steady, going on the quarter?

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<v Speaker 2>He is he on?

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<v Speaker 3>All right? Now?

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<v Speaker 2>All hand.

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<v Speaker 5>Boot.

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<v Speaker 2>We shouldn't have any trouble running ashore with that beach

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<v Speaker 2>there at the sands.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, what about you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll hold her steady until everybody's clear. You better go

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<v Speaker 2>over the side your boat standing there.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh no, not until you do. I'm staying with you, Charlie.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll be a full med I'm doing this alone.

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<v Speaker 3>No, Charlie, not while I'm here.

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<v Speaker 2>Mister Wilmot, you will abandoned ship and take charge of

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<v Speaker 2>the boats in the water. And that's an order, Charlie,

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<v Speaker 2>I can't. Mister Wilmot, very well, Captain man sus spirit

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<v Speaker 2>ladd and to a bay orders and step lively. You'll

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<v Speaker 2>be a seaman yet.

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<v Speaker 4>Good luck name, Thanks Charlie, stand by for you in

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<v Speaker 4>the boat.

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<v Speaker 2>Goss ld rye By.

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<v Speaker 4>I slipped over the gunwale and dropped down into the

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<v Speaker 4>boat that trailed alongside on a line from the rail.

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<v Speaker 4>I'd hardly hit the bottom of the line. Second I

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<v Speaker 4>knew Charlie had cut us loose in the ship. He

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<v Speaker 4>was alone on and now alone in the night sea

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<v Speaker 4>with a black brute, sir, Look, he's laid it over

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<v Speaker 4>and away from the wind. Charlie had put the helm

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<v Speaker 4>over hard, with a terrible shudder of her dark sails

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<v Speaker 4>and a smother of white foam from her bows. The

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<v Speaker 4>great ship healed about in a sharp turn, and then

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<v Speaker 4>began to drive ahead like some mad king before the wind,

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<v Speaker 4>straight before the wind, and straight toward the shore.

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<v Speaker 2>Look, so the rocks in the headland.

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<v Speaker 3>She's going to smash herself faster and faster. She plunged

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<v Speaker 3>her head through the weltering seas.

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<v Speaker 4>Faster and faster on the back of the gale, while

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<v Speaker 4>the black hearted spirit of her screamed in the rat.

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<v Speaker 3>Line, what is the name of heavenything I go to do?

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<v Speaker 4>And now for one long instant? She hung poise at

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<v Speaker 4>the top of a plunge, and then drove, smashing downward

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<v Speaker 4>onto the road.

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<v Speaker 7>We stood by as close as we dared for three

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<v Speaker 7>hours while the killer ship hounded us up to bits

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<v Speaker 7>and the surge in the sea. But we didn't find

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<v Speaker 7>my brother Charlie, and from the first minute I knew

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<v Speaker 7>we wouldn't because just before I'd left the ship, there

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<v Speaker 7>by the helm, in the light of the binnacle.

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<v Speaker 4>Lamp, I'd seen the thing he was holding, clenched tight

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<v Speaker 4>in his hard brown fist. It was a tiny platinum ring,

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<v Speaker 4>said with a blue white diamond.

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<v Speaker 1>Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and Tonight

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<v Speaker 1>Brought You The Brute by Joseph Conrad, adapted for radio

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<v Speaker 1>by Les Crutchfield, featuring Dan O'hurleahey as Ned Wilmot and

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<v Speaker 1>Eric Rolf as Charlie Wilmot, with Nina Cawden as Maggie,

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Corey as Captain Colchester Wilms, Herbert as German, and

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<v Speaker 1>Parley Bear as the Father. Music is conceived and conducted

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<v Speaker 2>You will find the remote hill country of Afghan put

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<v Speaker 2>in an ambush by the fierce Paton tribes, trapped in

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<v Speaker 2>a hopeless fight from which there seems no escape.

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