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“Shouldn’t care to be caught out in her in any sort of a breeze. No beam,” said Harvey, critically, as the yacht slowed to pick up her

“They’re having what stands them for a good time. I can give you that, and twice as much as that, Harve. How’d you like it?”

“Caesar! That’s no way to get a dinghy overside,” said Harvey, still intent on the yacht. “If I couldn’t slip a tackle better than that I’d stay ashore.⁠ ⁠… What if I don’t?”

“Stay ashore⁠—or what?”

“Yacht and ranch and live on ‘the old man,’ and⁠—get behind Mama where there’s trouble,” said Harvey, with a twinkle in his eye.

“Why, in that case, you come right in with me, my son.”

“Ten dollars a month?”

Another twinkle.

“Not a cent more until you’re

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