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"Please tell us what happened." |
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"Well, we was able to get the dinghy down and the four of usFrampton, Calderly, Bellows and meall went ashore. Except for the ice fog, it wasn't all that bad. I'd been there in the summer of '38 and had some recollection of the place. We went to the depot first. The door was standin' open and the fog an' ice an' rains had ruined purt'near everything. We shouted and raised a real ruckus, but we couldn't roust a soul. Then Bellows found the generatorit was all froze upand he tells me it don't show signs of operatin' for a long time. |
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"I sends Frampton and Calderly out to look for someone, anyone who could tell us where the depot master was. It was Calderly what found 'em." |
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"Let the record show that Captain Cartwright had reference to Seaman Second Class Chester Calderly of Peltville, Nova Scotia. Now, Captain, please tell us what Seaman Calderly found." |
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"You'd better explain, Captain Cartwright." |
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"Like I said, them Kiska children is Lute orphans. They got an old nun what come up there thirty years ago to teach them heathens the holy book. Whenever she'd find one of them Lute children wanderin' around with nobody to look after 'em, she'd take 'em in. |
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