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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: The SMEATON having just arrived at her moorings with a
cargo, a signal was made for Captain Pool to come on board of
the tender, that he might be at hand to remove from the
service any of those who might persist in their discontented
conduct. One of the two principal leaders in this affair, the
master of one of the praam-boats, who had also steered the
boat which brought the letter to the beacon, was first called
upon deck, and asked if he had read the statement fixed up in
the galley this afternoon, and whether he was satisfied with
it. He replied that he had read the paper, but was not
satisfied, as it held out no alteration in the allowance, on
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