"Well, Clinker," said Piron, kindly, "don't let us talk any more about the earthquake. You told me yesterday that you had a note from Colonel Lawton, saying he would not take passage in the brig with us to New Orleans, as his business obliged him to leave before we could sail?"
Clinker choked out something like "Yes," as if it were the last soun
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