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The least hesitation , and I have done with that man . If Davy here had grumbled one mouthful , even on his way overboard , I would n't have kept him . '' He then arranged that Travers was to go home that night , and bring with him the next morning an old carpenter friend of his . He would himself be down by seven o'clock to set him to work . The result was that , before a fortnight was over , he had the cabin thoroughly fitted up , with all the luxuries it had formerly possessed , and as many more as he could think of -- to compensate for the loss of the space occupied by the daintiest little stateroom -- a very jewel box for softness and richness and comfort . In the cabin , amongst the rest of his additions , he had fixed in a corner a set of tiny bookshelves , and filled them with what books he knew his sister liked , and some that he liked for her . It was not probable she would read in them much , he said to himself , but they would n't make the boat heel , and who could tell when a drop of celestial nepenthe might ooze from one or another of them !