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`` Can we start to-morrow ? '' asked General Morgan . `` We have not a moment to spare , you know . '' `` We can start at noon to-morrow at latest , '' replied the Captain , `` if the foundry men do a little extra work to-night . '' `` We must start this very day , Captain Bloomsbury , '' cried Marston resolutely ; `` Barbican has been lying two weeks and thirteen hours in the depths of the Pacific ! If he is still alive , no thanks to Marston ! He must by this time have given me up !