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A Chinese Command, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: Arch. Webb
Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23118]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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A Chinese Command, A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas, by Harry Collingwood.
CHAPTER ONE.
THE OUTCAST.
A furious gust of wind tore down the chimney, blowing the smoke out into the small but cosily-furnished sitting-room of the little cottage at Kingston-on-Thames, and sending a shower of sparks hissing and spluttering on to the hearth-rug, where they were promptly trodden out by a tall, fair-haired young giant, who lazily removed his feet from a chair on which they reposed, for the purpose.
This operation concluded, he replaced his feet on the chair with deliberation, re-arranged a cushion behind his head, leaned back luxuriously, and started hunting in his pocket for matches wherewith to light his pipe, which had gone out.
"Beastly night for a dog to be out, much more a human being," he soliloquised. "Poor old Murray's sure to be drenched when he gets