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`` It must have been Arnold Baxter . '' `` No bad news , I trust , Master Dick , '' observed Snuggers . `` Yes , Peleg , very bad . Take this back to the Hall and give it to my brothers , and tell them I am going to Ithaca by the first boat , and there take the midnight train for home . Tell them to explain to Captain Putnam and then to follow me . Do you understand ? '' `` Well -- I -- er -- I guess I do , '' stammered the workingman .