The Devil's Admiral
The Devil's Admiral
Free DownloadWho the fiend was that plundered the shipping of the China Sea, none knew. Young Trenholm found out during the trip to Hong-Kong aboard the Kut Sang. You won't breathe easy until the the end.
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iting me at the hotel; and, although
it was not yet noon, I hailed a rig and drove there. The clerk passed
over the familiar yellow envelope, and my message read: "Proceed to
Hong-Kong for orders." I replied that I would leave at once, and the
message was gone before I discovered that there wasn't a steamer for
Hong-Kong before the end of the week, five days away.
It would have sounded silly to dispatch another message, telling of lack of steamers. I had supposed a steamer sailed every day or two, and my temper was ruffled at my mistake and the prospect of fretting away a week in the heat of Manila.
A little item in the Times gave me hope. It told of the steamer Kut Sang coming out of dry dock to sail for Hong-Kong that very afternoon with general cargo. There was a bare chance that I might get passage in her, for the paper referred to her as a former passenger boat, and I was sure I could cajole the company into selling me a berth, or bribe the captain into signing me as a member of t
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An exciting adventure during the tim of, but not closely connected with the Russo-Japanese war. Well worth reading for sea-going adventure fans.
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