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Lying awake that night, Bobby remembered again his first interview with Martia, and her talk about the predilection of editors and the public for stories with a feminine interest. He began to wonder, as he lay listening to the heavy breathing of the skipper, whether there ever existed a story, in real life or fiction, since the story of Adam, without some woman somewhere or somewhen having a finger in it.
If he had set out to choose on sight, for this expedition, a skipper absolutely fool-proof against females, he would have chosen Sam. Yet look!