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`` Taking your daughter into that nasty mess of Chinamen in the steerage , for instance , to watch them play fan-tan . '' `` What of that ? She only lost a couple of quarters and had a dollar 's worth of fun . Ca n't see it was any worse than keeping her out at the prow until midnight , or taking her up to the crow 's - nest . '' The captain pushed back his chair , and smiled with maddening significance . `` See here , my young friend , you need n't worry about Bobby . She 's been taking care of herself for twenty years .