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"Here comes Captain Bogart -- we'll ask him," said the talkative man.
His listeners were grouped about one of the small tables in the smoking-room of the Moldavia, five days out. The question was when the master of a vessel should leave his ship. In the incident discussed every man had gone ashore -- even the life-saving crew had given her up: the master had stuck to his post.