A Man to His Mate

A Man to His Mate
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Dunn Joseph Allan. A Man to His Mate

CHAPTER I. BLIND SAMSON

CHAPTER II. A DIVIDED COMPANY

CHAPTER III. TARGET PRACTISE

CHAPTER IV. THE BOWHEAD

CHAPTER V. RAINEY SCORES

CHAPTER VI. SANDY SPEAKS

CHAPTER VII. RAINEY MAKES DECISION

CHAPTER VIII. TAMADA TALKS

CHAPTER IX. THE POT SIMMERS

CHAPTER X. THE SHOW-DOWN

CHAPTER XI. HONEST SIMMS

CHAPTER XII. DEMING BREAKS AN ARM

CHAPTER XIII. THE RIFLE CARTRIDGES

CHAPTER XIV. PEGGY SIMMS

CHAPTER XV. SMOKE

CHAPTER XVI. THE MIGHT OF NIPPON

CHAPTER XVII. MY MATE

CHAPTER XVIII. LUND'S LUCK

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It was not the first time that Rainey had been on a ship, a sailing ship, and at sea. Whenever possible his play-hours had been spent on a little knockabout sloop that he owned jointly with another man, both of them members of the Corinthian Club. While the Curlew had made no blue-water voyages, they had sailed her more than once up and down the California coast on offshore regattas and pleasure-trips, and, lacking experience in actual navigation, Rainey was a pretty handy sailorman for an amateur.

So, as he came out of the grip of the drug that had been given him, slowly, with a brain-pan that seemed overstuffed with cotton and which throbbed with a dull persistent ache – with a throat that seemed to be coated with ashes, strangely contracted – a nauseated stomach – eyes that saw things through a haze – limbs that ached as if bruised – the sounds that beat their way through his sluggish consciousness were familiar enough to place him almost instantly and aid his memory's flickering film to reel off what had happened.

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"Good afternoon," said Rainey. "Are you going on deck?"

It was not a clever opening, but she seemed to rob him of wit, to an extent. He had yet to know how she stood concerning his presence aboard. Did she countenance the forcible kidnapping of him as a possible tattler? Or – ?

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