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`` He 's ruined enough good hats to have paid for the new boiler . Yes , sir , whenever ol' Scraggsy gets mad he most certainly gets hoppin ' mad . '' `` It 'll soak into his head after a while that us two mean business , Mac , an ' he 'll get sensible an ' fire them outsiders . I 'm lookin ' for him to make peace before noon . '' About ten o'clock that morning the little vessel completed taking on her cargo , the lines were cast off , and the homeward voyage was begun . As she hauled away from the wharf , Messrs. Gibney and McGuffey might have been observed seated on the stern bitts smoking , the picture of contentment . Pirates under the law they might be , but of this they knew nothing and cared less .