Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 40: what you’re looking at

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ce THE OCEAN OUTLAW. cruise over to the main, with Mr. Kendel on the quarter deck; hut as soon as matters get strightened out a little, that will be your berth.”’ Two hours later, the Black Vulture and its tener were under way, passing slowly down the narrow channel so ofien referred to, and, in the course of an hour, was stan !- ing ont to sea. while the island, that so short a time before presented a scene of merry mirth, was now quiet and de- serted, with tlre exception of Bill Rollins, who remaiued to keep watch in the absence of his. master. e * * 7 a J Searcely had Stephen Granger withirawn from the. quarters of Lieutenant Howard, when his pluce was sup- plied by a man wearing the same uniform as the latter, but evidently some ten years his senior. Mis face was ‘pale, and to all appearances he had lately recovered from a severe spell of sickness. ‘*Why Mulgrave, is that you!” exclaimed Howard, startins up and warmly grasping the hand that the other extended to him. ‘ They tokl me, yesterday, that you wonld not be out this two weeks, and Captain Clinton has been in a tantram all day about it.” “It would have been more than two wecks before I got out, if that landlubber Doctor had been allowed to huve his own way about it. But I have been conped up as long as I am going to be, and when the old Windsor sails again, Lam wiil ier, sick or well. I believe if I had gone to sea instead of staying here, I should have been about long ago.” The newcomer, who was addressed as Mr. Mulgrave, held the Ce mission of first Lieutenant on board the sane craft to which Lloward belonged. § ome three months be- fore he had been seriously injured by the accidental full- ing of a spar, and his case taking an unfavorable tarn, he wus landed at Ilavana, and placed under the care of a noted physician. Between Mulgrave and Howard there existed a firm, unchanging friendship that had sprung up mauy years before, and time seemed rather to strengthen the tie that bound the “brothers in arms” together. comicloooks.conhn