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Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Admiral Peters
Odd Craft, Part 14.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12214]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADMIRAL PETERS ***
Produced by David Widger
1909
PART 14.
List of Illustrations
Sat at the Door of his Lodgings Gazing in Placid Content At the Sea.
Mr. Stiles Was Affecting a Stateliness of Manner Which Was Not Without Distinction.
'Mr. Stiles Called the Widow a 'saucy Little Baggage.'
'Good Riddance,' Said Mr. Burton, Savagely.
ADMIRAL PETERS
Mr. George Burton, naval pensioner, sat at the door of his lodgings gazing in placid content at the sea. It was early summer, and the air was heavy with the scent of flowers; Mr. Burton's pipe was cold and empty, and his pouch upstairs. He shook his head gently as he realised this, and, yielding to the drowsy quiet of his surroundings, laid aside the useless pipe and fell into a doze.
He was awakened half an hour later by the sound of footsteps. A tall, strongly built man was approaching from the direction of the town, and Mr. Burton, as he gazed at him sleepily, began to wonder where he had seen him before. Even when the stranger stopped and stood smiling down at him his memory proved unequal to the occasion, and he sat staring at the handsome, shaven face, with its little fringe of grey whisker, waiting for enlightenment.
George, my buck,
said the stranger, giving him a hearty slap on the shoulder, how goes it?
"D—- Bless my eyes, I mean, said Mr. Burton, correcting himself,
if it ain't Joe Stiles. I didn't know you without your beard."
That's me,
said the other. "It's quite by accident I heard where you were living, George; I offered to go and sling my hammock