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Lewis R. Freeman. Hell's Hatches
Hell's Hatches
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HELL'S HATCHES
CHAPTER I. A REPUTATION QUESTIONED
CHAPTER II. HARD-BIT DERELICTS
CHAPTER III. THE GIRL HERSELF
CHAPTER IV "SLANT" ALLEN RETIRES AGAIN
CHAPTER V. A SHIP OF DEATH
CHAPTER VI. COMPULSORY VOLUNTEERING
CHAPTER VII. RONA COMES ABOARD
CHAPTER VIII. I LEAVE THE ISLAND
CHAPTER IX. A GRIM TALE OF THE SEA
CHAPTER X. ART AND SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XI. A HERO'S HOMECOMING
CHAPTER XII. A BAD MAN'S PLEA
CHAPTER XIII. THE SCENE OF THE FINAL DRAMA
CHAPTER XIV. HELL'S HATCHES OFF
CHAPTER XV. THE FACE
CHAPTER XVI. A SUDDEN VISITOR
CHAPTER XVII. DOWN THE FLUME
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MASTERPIECE
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER ALL
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Lewis R. Freeman
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"So they still remembah mah ball-playin'," he drawled musingly, his left hand digits gently massaging the bulbous swelling remaining after some red-hot drive had telescoped the middle finger of his right. "Ye'es, of co'se they'd miss mah wing in the Ahmy-Navy game at Ca'nival time. But mah pokah—we'ell I reckon a few of 'em did find mah pokah hand about as bafflin' as mah baseball ahm. But it was straight deliv'ry, tho'—both of 'em. An' they wouldn't be callin' me a fo'-flushah, etha. No, you didn't heah any of 'em say that, I'm right suah."
A smile more whimsical than bitter twitched his lips twice or thrice in the minute or two he stood alone with his thoughts. "So I've sort o' dropped out o' sight to 'em?" he said finally. "We'ell, I guess that was about the best thing to happen for all consuned. But, just the same, if you evah go back Manila-way I won't be mindin' it if you tell 'em that, tho' the ol' wing's tuhn'd to glass from long lack o' limberin', an' tho' I don't play pokah down heah fo' feah o' bein' knifed fo' mah luck, I'm still hittin' true to fohm in mah own lil' game of alterin' the sea map with the noses of ships. I reckon they'll know the reason why."
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