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Yet he told himself savagely that if he had to take his choice he would not have done otherwise . And when he had accomplished the last move in his plan and driven Gower off the island , then he would have a chance to forget that such people had ever existed to fill a man 's days with unhappiness . That , it seemed to him , must be the final disposition of this problem which his father and Horace Gower and Elizabeth Morton had set for him years before he was born . There came a burst of afternoon westerlies which blew small hurricanes from noon to sundown . But there was always fishing under the broad lee of the cliffs . The _ Bluebird _ continued to scuttle from one outlying point to another , and the _ Blanco _ wallowed down to Crow Harbor every other day with her hold crammed . When she was not under way and the sea was fit the big carrier rode at anchor in the kelp close by Poor Man 's Rock , convenient for the trollers to come alongside and deliver when they chose .