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inquired the missionary . `` No , I think not , '' replied the captain ; `` thanks to our habit of sleeping with our faces to the wall , he will be deceived by the dummies we have placed in the beds , for he always approaches on tip-toe not to awake us . '' `` That may be for the first round ; but the second will assuredly disclose our absence . '' `` Very likely , '' remarked Willis ; `` he will then go right up to the beds , and shake the dummies by the shoulders , and say , Does your honor not know that it is ten o'clock , and that your breakfast is cooling ? The dummies will , of course , not condescend to reply , and then -- but what matters ? By that time we shall have shaken out our top-sail , and pursuit will be out of the question . I should like to see the craft that will overtake us when once we are a couple of miles ahead . ''