This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and he appeared as if my destruction were the most prominent and latest thing in his mind. I was now fully recovered in consciousness, and knew I had been shot. How badly I could only guess by the weakness in my frame and the blood I saw upon the deck around me. It was clear that I had been unconscious for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and he appeared as if my destruction were the most prominent and latest thing in his mind. I was now fully recovered in consciousness, and knew I had been shot. How badly I could only guess by the weakness in my frame and the blood I saw upon the deck around me. It was clear that I had been unconscious for many hours and had been dragged into the opening through the bulkhead. The colonel had pleaded sickness upon Captain Strong's arrival and had apparently gone into his stateroom, but had really gone forward through some secret passage in the cargo to this space in the side of the chain-locker, where the villains had fitted their infernal machine for the destruction of the ship. It was this mechanism I had seen them working upon on my return to consciousness. "If yo' will take his head, I will raise his feet," said the colonel. "We'll get him overboard in a very few moments. That blood should be cleaned up, and the box turned so the address of Thomas Jackson, Buenos Ayres, to whom it is fortunately consigned, will be more prominent. A search, then, will reveal nothing.' A Midnight Episode When the colonel and his accomplice started to drag me from that dark room in the bark's forehold I must have lost consciousness. I remember seeing the old man, with all his dignity and high military bearing, approach me and look at me for a moment with his cold, pitiless eyes. He appeared like some kind of human snake and his shining eyeballs glistened dully in the candlelight. He took a short bar from the side of the bulkhead and without removing his gaze from me, raised it to give me a quietus before hauling me on deck to heave me over the side. Then I was aware of the major, bending over me and raising my head. "He's as dead as a...
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Very Good. First edition. Gray cloth stamped in black in white with a picture of a frigate at sea illustrated by Florence Pearl Nosworthy. Very good with slight darkening of the spine, front hinge cracked, light foxing on endpapers, still an attractive copy. Inscribed by the author on the front fly: "To C.C. Converse, from his friend, T. Jenkins Hains, Sept 26, 03, Echo Boy, Yacht Edna." Seven relatable newspaper clippings laid in on preliminary pages causing some offsetting. Also, tipped in is a gelatin silver photograph of the author behind the ship's wheel, posing with a male and two female companions (one of which may be Amélie Troubetzkoy). An added bonus to this already phenominal item is a small piece of paper affixed to the page preceding the contents with the signature of the author and poet, Amélie Troubetzkoy. Thornton Jenkins Hains, 1866-1953, was an American novelist who found popularity with his nautical tales. His maternal grandfather, Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, served in the War of 1812 and Hains used the logbooks he kept as inspiration for *The Cruise of the Petrel*. Hains is mostly remembered for his part in the "Regatta Murder", the killing of William Annis by Hains' brother, Peter C. Hains. Peter's wife was having an affair with Annis and it was Thornton that told his brother this information. This resulted in Peter murdering Annis at the Ladies' Regatta while his brother stood watch. Although not convicted of any crime the event soiled his reputation and he adopted the pen name Mayn Clew Garnett from then on. A scarce and intriguing copy of an interesting title.
