three in
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In a couple of hours he had conveyed the twenty boxes from the boat , and packed them away in these lumber-holes , and covered them with old traps , so that even his mother would not suspect their presence in the house . Having done all this , he sailed the yacht out into the deep water near the Portland Pier , where he anchored her . Tired out after the long day and the long night , he stretched himself on one of the transoms , and went to sleep . Little Bobtail slept as soundly on the transom of the yacht as Ezekiel Taylor did in the cottage ; and , as he did not retire till after three in the morning , he did not turn out till nine . He had worked all day and nearly all night , and he was very tired . While he was slumbering soundly in the cabin , many an eye was directed from the shore , and from the boats and vessels in the harbor , at the trim and janty yacht which had come in during the night . She was not there the evening before , and she was there now .