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Chapter 1. The New Vessel Of Withrow‘s
_ CHAPTER I. THE NEW VESSEL OF WITHROW‘S
It was only a few days before this that the new vessel of Mr. Withrow‘s, built by him, as everybody supposed, for Maurice Blake, had been towed around from Essex, and I remember how Maurice stood on the dock that afternoon and looked her over.
There was not a bolt or a plank or a seam in her whole hull, not a square inch inside or out, that he had not been over half a dozen times while she was on the stocks; but now he had to look her over again, and as he looked his eyes took on a shine. She had been designed by a man famous the world over, and was intended to beat anything that ever sailed past Eastern Point.
She certainly was a great-looking model of a vessel, and "If she only sails and handles half so well as she looks, she‘ll do for me," said Maurice. "Yes, sir, and if she‘s up to what I think she ought to be, I wouldn‘t be afraid to bet my share of what we make out South that she‘ll hold h
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