Excerpt from The Derelict
The Doctor came in then, and they went round the ship for inspection, and, when that was over, Mr. Horrocks thought he would go and cheer them up in the smoke-room a bit, and let those that did not know it quite understand what lucky people they were to be on board of the Ambleside. But on the way there, the tract man once more waylaid him.
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