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? ? ? ? 'Since when have you become an altruist?' I queried. 'Confess, now, in warning me for my own good, that you are very inconsistent.'

? ? ? ? He ignored my sarcasm, saying, 'Suppose I clap the hatch on now? You won't fool me as you did in the lazaret.'

? ? ? ? 'Wolf Larsen,' I said sternly, for the first time addressing him by this his most familiar name, 'I am unable to shoot a helpless, unresisting man. You have proved that to my satisfaction as well as yours. But I warn you now, and not so much for your own good as for mine, that I shall shoot you the moment you attempt a hostile act. I can shoot you now, as I stand here; and if you are so minded, just go ahead and try to clap on the hatch.'

? ? ? ? 'Nevertheless I forbid you; I distinctly forbid your tampering with my ship.'

? ? ? ? 'But, man!' I expostulated. 'You advance the fact that it is your ship as though it were a moral right.


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