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the coast, he got on very well at the business, and he
and Molly lived very comfortably together for many
years. But Molly always had a hold on him in re-
spect of the event of which I have been telling you,
and if ever she saw him talking to any other person
of the fairer sex whom she didn’t happen to like, she
was down upon him like a shot with some words
which brought him at once to a properly submissive
frame of mind ; recalling to his recollection the dangers
he had passed through, and the happy escape which,

through her instrumentality, he had had from the
Witches’ Island.