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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: you like to look for him in our coal-hole?' Quite a tiff. But
they made it up in the end. I suppose he did drown himself. Don't
you, sir?"
"I don't suppose anything."
"You have no doubt in the matter, sir?"
"None whatever."
I left him suddenly. I felt I was producing a bad impression, but
with my double down there it was most trying to be on deck. And it
was almost as trying to be below. Altogether a nerve-trying
situation. But on the whole I felt less torn in two when I was
with him. There was no one in the whole ship whom I dared take
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
