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your ransom shall be paid." So he left them. The tidings he had brought cheered the poor shipwrecked prisoners very much --at least those who believed what had been told them, for all did not. The cap- tain and mate did. They began to think how much guilt and misery they had brought on the whole ship's crew. Those who did not believe, were very loud in condemning both the owner of the ship and the captain and his mate for having brought so much trouble on them. Long, long time passed, and yet no one came to redeem the poor shipwrecked pris- oners. At last the individual came. Some
