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As it turned out, it would be another hour before the ship began to slip out of dock to make it's voyage to Hawaii. By this time his jaws would be like clamps; and already through his body passed an energy equal it seemed to the pistons of the machine run ship. Above the shouting of street business eyes with the hell raising glaze of no tomorrow; middle-aged men and women passed by Animal and Jaqueline. They walked around them, and down along the deck passage- way wearing buttons. Some of a political nature, but mostly it seemed displaying their own characters out of caricatures from cartoons. The rowdy rout below received grumblings of disapproval; but Jaqueline cared not and Animal was on top of it enjoying a unmistakeable identity from the beginning of this new epsode. "Who are these people acting like movie stars, who obviously are not?" "After all Henry; this is the Corona Lines, not a Manzanillo tramp steamer!" "Such sophistication!" Jaqueline nudged Animal to his leaping one sided mouth to ear grin. He began to laugh loudly sweeping his hand up over head indicating a speech. "Everyone will be taking