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He put his hand to his breast pocket and drew out the envelope on the back of which Sam had scribbled the address of the deep-sea diving outfit company. The great firm that supplies all the pearl fisheries of the world with their diving equipment, to say nothing of the harbour boards.
Truly Behrens was right when he spoke of the importance of men and the importance of being able to choose men, for Bobby might have been days wandering about on this diving-dress business, and gone, perhaps, to some second-hand dealer, but for Hackett.