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"Of course the timber's worth a lot," sparred Billy.,"What you mean, do as you say?","I couldn't see that she had, your honour.",Moll wagged her short tail gleefully.,Something else was to happen shortly to make Billy feel that his world was full of mysterious agents sent for no other purpose than to give him fresh worries.,"You heard what I said, didn't you?" growled the challenger. "I'm goin' to lick you.","It also belongs to your dear, gentle son," she grated, "leastwise I found it in one of his pants pockets.",CHAPTER XIII LUCY'S MADNESS,He went to sea again and did not return for two years, and when he arrived he came broken, to the grief and shame of his father. He had been court-martialled and dismissed his ship. His offence was singular and characteristic: he was in a foreign port, and at night-fall he walked to the quay to return to his ship. He was intoxicated, and on being challenged by a sentry, tumbled the fellow into the water and immediately sprang after him and saved his life. Some in the face of his gallant career thought the sentence too severe: others regarded it as lenient. His own view of it he betokened by conceiving a bitter hatred against the Service and by resigning his commission.,"Is that your well with the jail-wall about it, yonder?",CHAPTER VIII WHERE IS LUCY?,"Gollies!" exulted Maurice. Then uncertainty in his tones, "A feller 'ud have to be a mighty good shot to do that though, Bill.".