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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
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THE GREEN FLAG
CAPTAIN SHARKEY
HOW THE GOVERNOR OF SAINT KITT'S CAME HOME
THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY WITH STEPHEN CRADDOCK
HOW COPLEY BANKS SLEW CAPTAIN SHARKEY
THE CROXLEY MASTER
THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR
THE STRIPED CHEST
A SHADOW BEFORE
THE KING OF THE FOXES
THE THREE CORRESPONDENTS
THE NEW CATACOMB
THE DEBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE
A FOREIGN OFFICE ROMANCE
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Published by Good Press, 2019
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One morning they had raised a single skiff adrift upon the face of the ocean. Its only occupant was a delirious seaman, who yelled hoarsely as they hoisted him aboard, and showed a dried-up tongue like a black and wrinkled fungus at the back of his mouth. Water and nursing soon transformed him into the strongest and smartest sailor on the ship. He was from Marblehead, in New England, it seemed, and was the sole survivor of a schooner which had been scuttled by the dreadful Sharkey.
For a week Hiram Evanson, for that was his name, had been adrift beneath a tropical sun. Sharkey had ordered the mangled remains of his late captain to be thrown into the boat, "as provisions for the voyage," but the seaman had at once committed it to the deep, lest the temptation should be more than he could bear. He had lived upon his own huge frame until, at the last moment, the Morning Star had found him in that madness which is the precursor of such a death. It was no bad find for Captain Scarrow, for, with a short-handed crew, such a seaman as this big New Englander was a prize worth having. He vowed that he was the only man whom Captain Sharkey had ever placed under an obligation.
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