The Washington herald., 1919-09-29
MIDSHIPMAN EASY
By CAPTAIN MARRYATT.
Condensation by James Connolly author of The Sners
THE Seas" and many other of seas)
By CAPTAIN MARRYATT.

business!" sputtered Mr.. Biggs
How am I to pipe to dinner with
my wind escaping through these
holes in my cheeks"
The boatswain's bullet had caught
Mr.. Easthupp in a tender rear spot
which caused that gentleman to
roar so loudly that everyone said
he must be dead, or dying at least
Jack was scared. or pretended to
be. He wrote a note to Captain
Wilson. saying he feared he had
killed Mr.. Easthupp. and so he
would stay ashore for Q time to see
what came of IL
This happened in Malta with
Midshipman Gascoigne, his second.
carrying a pair OF duelling pistols.
Jack sailed on q speronare with a
crew of four men and a boy to Italy.
During the night the crew. having
seen too many Of Jacks doubloons.
killed them instead-all but the boy.
who providentialy fell overheard
and was drowned.
A storm overlook their little craft
and threw her high up on the shore
Of Sicily. While looking about
them, they saw an elderly and q
young lady beset by two robbers
with long swords. An old gentle
man was lying unconscious on the
ground. Jack and Gascoigne drove
of the villaips. The old gentleman
turned out 70 be a Don Ribiera de
Silva, the lady to be Donna Clara.
his wife. and the brunette young
beauty. Donna Agnes. their daugh-
ter On n second look at Donna
Agnes. lack knew her for the young
lady passenger of his prize ship. At
the home Of Don Ribiera, where the
lads were later made welcome, he
fell deeply IN love with her.
Easthupp did not die; and the
boys returned to their ship. where
their captain read them a fine lee
ture on discipline and conduct and
the value Of a regular study to de-
velop their minds. Jack at once
began the study of italian.
His general conduct in the next
two years was such as to promise
an early promotion; but one day
there came a letter from home in
forming him that his mother had
died: and also that IL his father
was not mad he soon would be-
John went home on leave. and there
found his father working on a
mechanical invention which was to
rectify the mistakes of nature-to
preserve to the human species the
finer organs and destroy the baser
While demonstrating this invention
the poor man had his neck broken.
A midshipman with 5000 pounds
a year was an anomaly in the
service. Jack secured his dis
charge. the better to look after his
estates. But as time went on he
found himself thinking of Donna
Agnes; SO much SO that one day he
purchased a fast little armed brig.
named her the Ribiera, procured
letters of marQue and sailed for
Italy. Here Agnes became bis ex-
cellent and affectionate wife; event.
ually. in England. she became the
mother of four children.
Having given up the sea and his
early theories about the equalities.
Jack stood for Parliament on the
Conservative ticket and was elected
and all without too much expense.
which was remarkable.
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