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    Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901
    Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901
    Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901
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    Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901

    By Louis Becke

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Foster's Letter Of Marque A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901 - Louis Becke

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      Title: Foster's Letter Of Marque

             A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901

      Author: Louis Becke

      Release Date: April 12, 2008 [EBook #25058]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOSTER'S LETTER OF MARQUE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      FOSTER'S LETTER OF MARQUE

      A TALE OF OLD SYDNEY

      From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories

      By Louis Becke

      C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.

      1901

      Contents

      I

      One by one the riding-lights of the few store-ships and whalers lying in Sydney Harbour on an evening in January, 1802, were lit, and as the clear notes of a bugle from the barracks pealed over the bay, followed by the hoarse calls and shrill whistles of the boatswains' mates on a frigate that lay in Sydney Cove, the mate of the Policy whaler jumped up from the skylight where he had been lying smoking, and began to pace the deck.

      The Policy was anchored between the Cove and Pinchgut, ready for sea. The north-easter, which for three days had blown strongly, had now died away, and the placid waters of the harbour shimmered under the starlight of an almost cloudless sky. As the old mate tramped to and fro on the deserted poop, his keen seaman's eye caught sight of some faint grey clouds rising low down in the westward—signs of a south-easterly coming before the morning.

      Stepping to the break of the poop, the officer hailed the look-out forward, and asked if he could see the captain's boat coming.

      No, sir, the man replied. I did see a boat a while ago, and thought it was ours, but it turned out to be one from that Batavian Dutchman anchored below Pinchgut. Her captain always goes ashore about this time.

      Swinging round on his heel with an angry exclamation, the mate resumed his walk, muttering and growling to himself as elderly mates do mutter and growl when a captain promises to be on board at five in the afternoon and is not in evidence at half-past seven. Perhaps, too, the knowledge of the particular cause of the captain's delay somewhat added to his chief officer's ill-temper—that cause being a pretty girl; for the mate was a crusty old bachelor, and had but little sympathy with such tomfoolery.

      Why the devil couldn't he say goodbye to her and be done with it and come aboard, he grumbled, instead of wasting half a day over it?

      But Mr. Stevenson did not consider that in those days pretty women were not plentiful in Sydney, and virtue was even scarcer than good looks, and Dorothy Gilbert, only daughter of the Deputy Acting Assistant Commissary-General of the penal settlement, possessed all the qualifications of

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