Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


"As long as Chantz takes your orders, leave him alone. We'll need
every hand to work the ship in. As for yourself, send Murphy aft in
half an hour and I'll give him the best the medicine-chest affords.
That is all. Go for'ard."


And they shambled away, beaten and dispirited.


"But that man--his face--what happened to him?" Margaret asked of me.


Sad it is to end love with lies. Sadder still is it to begin love
with lies. I had tried to hide this one happening from Margaret, and
I had failed. It could no longer be hidden save by lying; and so I
told her the truth, told her how and why the gangster had had his
face dashed with sulphuric acid by the old steward who knew white men
and their ways.

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