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    Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14.
    Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14.
    Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14.
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    Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Will Owen

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Admiral Peters, by W.W. Jacobs

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      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

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