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And in the one breath he was glad that the partnership had been effected and sorry that Joan Lackland had ever come to the Solomons . Then he went inside and looked at himself in a hand-mirror . He studied the reflection long and thoughtfully and wonderingly . They were deep in a game of billiards the next morning , after the eleven o'clock breakfast , when Viaburi entered and announced , -- `` Big fella schooner close up . '' Even as he spoke , they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe , and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner , swinging to her just - caught anchor . `` It 's a Yankee , '' Joan cried . `` See that bow !