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Nichols ' boat was duly prepared at nine o'clock on the following morning . Lethbridge shouted to him from the rails . `` Gentleman 's changed his mind , I reckon . He went off on the eight o'clock boat for Penzance . '' Nichols commenced stolidly to furl his sails again . `` It 's my thinking Lethbridge , '' he said , as he clambered into the dinghy , `` that there 's things going on in this island which you and me do n't understand . I 'm for a few plain words with Job Rowsell , though he 's my own sister 's husband . ''