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"COME you down into my cabin and tell me what's happened since you / bolted from the 'Stormy Petrel' with that sneakin' rascal. " And the / honest sailor shook his huge fist at the retreating form of old Renard.
Then Tad followed the skipper into the tiny cabin, and there over / a good breakfast told his story; told it exactly as things had / happened-the whole truth without reserve. It was a relief now to / disburden his heavy heart of what was oppressing him so sorely, and to / ask for the advice and help of which he stood so urgently in need.