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"What do I say to that offer? " returned Gladsden; "That it is a queer one, not to say a mad one! Senor, I am morally certain that you would lose your ship."
"You mean, you refuse," triumphantly, whilst the auditors smiled flatteringly on their leader for having "bluffed" the foreigner.