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    The Bequest Ship's Company, Part 6.
    The Bequest Ship's Company, Part 6.
    The Bequest Ship's Company, Part 6.
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    The Bequest Ship's Company, Part 6.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Will Owen

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Bequest Ship's Company, Part 6. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bequest, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: The Bequest

      Ship's Company, Part 6.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10566]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEQUEST ***

      Produced by David Widger

      BOOK 6

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN

      THE BEQUEST

      R. Robert Clarkson sat by his fire, smoking thoughtfully. His lifelong neighbour and successful rival in love had passed away a few days before, and Mr. Clarkson, fresh from the obsequies, sat musing on the fragility of man and the inconvenience that sometimes attended his departure.

      His meditations were disturbed by a low knocking on the front door, which opened on to the street. In response to his invitation it opened slowly, and a small middle-aged man of doleful aspect entered softly and closed it behind him.

      Evening, Bob, he said, in stricken accents. I thought I'd just step round to see how you was bearing up. Fancy pore old Phipps! Why, I'd a'most as soon it had been me. A'most.

      Mr. Clarkson nodded.

      Here to-day and gone to-morrow, continued Mr. Smithson, taking a seat. Well, well! So you'll have her at last-pore thing.

      That was his wish, said Mr. Clarkson, in

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