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"How awfully ghastly! " said Amy Rivers.
"Yes," said Fairfax; "those anarchist people ought to be shot down like dangerous wild beasts whenever they open their mouths! Think of it! not only a fine ship, but half a million in specie, blotted out of existence by this murderous bomb! It will come fearfully heavy on some of the underwriters. There will be a black pay-day at Lloyd's when they settle up over this. You never saw such excitement as there is in the City. Papers were selling at half a crown apiece!"