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When the boy gets home, he finds that the uncle he has neglected has not neglected him. Cephus has been ashore and gone again, and he has left Peter a full-rigged ship, which his uncle has been secretly working on (or him for half a year, a ship no longer than Peter's little finger but perfectly rigged down to the last cobweb of a shroud, all perfect inside a bottle! Peter sleeps April out with that jewel under his heart, for he falls asleep with it there, falls asleep across the bottle of beauty Cap'n Cephus has brought him.
And Peter's lost love is clean forgotten in his new love for this perfect little vessel, this perfect small jewel from the man who has sailed all the seas and who loves him like a son.
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