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The big boat was hove to outside Cherbourg waiting for mails and to disembark passengers. The commander glared disapprovingly down from his bridge as the white launch, flying the French flag and a silken burgee of the Yacht Club of France, drew up at the foot of the gangway.
"No visitors allowed on board, Francis," he growled to his first officer.