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`` Thank you , Captain Hardy , '' answered William , with a bow . `` If we get our parents ' leave , we 'll come to-morrow , if that will not too much trouble you . '' `` It will not trouble me at all , '' replied the Captain . `` Let it be four o'clock , then , -- come at four o'clock . That will suit me perfectly ; and it may be that I 'll have , '' continued he , `` a bit of a story or two to tell you . Besides , I think I promised something of the kind before to William , when I came home this time twelvemonth ago . Do you remember it , my lad ? ''