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It was in a spirit of fervent thankfulness that Red O'Shaughnessy and his thirty-nine companions selected for the voyage to New South Wales descended the side-ladder of the prison hulk Retribution into the barge awaiting them alongside that unsavory floating inferno.
Dr. Moriarty's address had put new heart into all of them. His exhortation to "play the game" and the straightforward statement as to the severe treatment they might expect if they did not do so seemed to have somewhat cleared the sordid atmosphere in which all of them had been living for months. They realised vaguely that they had a man to deal with, and one who was also a gentleman--which could not be said of every naval surgeon of the period. Especially of those who had charge of convict transports.