The Tragedy of Ida Noble

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William Clark Russell. The Tragedy of Ida Noble

The Tragedy of Ida Noble

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THE TRAGEDY OF IDA NOBLE

CHAPTER I. A YANKEE RUSE

CHAPTER II. THE PEOPLE OF LA CASANDRA

CHAPTER III. DON CHRISTOVAL'S STORY

CHAPTER IV. A MIDNIGHT THEFT

CHAPTER V. MADAME

CHAPTER VI. A TRAGEDY

CHAPTER VII. DON LAZARILLO LEAVES US

CHAPTER VIII. IDA NOBLE

CHAPTER IX. CAPTAIN NOBLE

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William Clark Russell

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The sight gave me back all my strength. I sprang into the bows, dragged the oars inboard, and to one of them attached my coat, which I went to work to flourish, making the wet serge garment rattle like the fly of a flag as I swept it round and round high above my head. Within half an hour she was close to me, with her square canvas aback to deaden her way, the heads of a number of people dotting the line of her rail—a shapely and graceful vessel indeed, with a band of yellow metal along her waterline, dully glowing over the white edge of froth, as though some light of western sunshine slept upon her, her canvas gleaming like satin, a spark or two in her glossy length where her cabin port-holes were, and the brassy gleam of some gilt effigy under her bowsprit, from which curved to the masthead the lustrous pinions of her jibs and staysail.

A red-headed man wearing a cap with a naval peak stood abaft the main rigging in company with others, and as the beautiful little vessel came softly swaying and floating down over the heave of the swell to my boat, he cried out, "Can you catch hold of the end of a line?"

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