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asked the other shakily . `` My camp is just outside the post here . '' `` Then I will come to you tonight , Stane . I shall be late -- midnight as like as not . '' `` I shall wait for you , '' answered Stane , and stepped aside . Ainley made a hurried exit , and the man whom he had left , moving to the door , watched him running towards the wharf , where a large Peterboro ' canoe had just swung alongside . There were several others making for the wharf , and as Stane watched , one by one they drew up , and discharged their complement of passengers .