Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 74: what you’re looking at

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768 THE OCEAN OUTLAW. CHAPTER X. ” Ralph Gray, (alias Mulgrave,) and his brother Reginal, who was some fifteen years his senior, were the only clril- dren of a wealthy merchant, residing in London. From the cradle, there had been a vast difference in the charac- ter of the two. Ralph, at an early age, evince la strong © disposition for the socicty of the gambler and the de- bauchee. It was in vain that his father pointed out the results of ‘such a course; and eyen threatened to disinherit him. He went on his own way, and at the death of his father, (an event that was undoutedly hastened by the knowledge of his son’s dissolute life,) found himself in the possession of a handsome property, in ready money, and with no one to restrain him in the least. Ile at once p!unged into all kinds of dissipation, and in ten years his entire fortune had disappeared at the card table; and debts of honor, as he called them, were stand- ing against him to the amount of some two thousand dol- lars, What was now tobe done? If these debts were removed, he might have a turn of fortune, and win back all he had lost. : | He wemt to his brother and acquainted him with his‘ “situation, and asked his assistance, promising to abetuia in future from gambling in every form. Reginald, who was the exact opposite uf his brother, rejoiced that Ralph, was at last forced to break with his low associates. Ile at once paid the demands against him, thinking he woull ; fulfil his promise. But he was disappointed. No sooner did Ralph find himself free from debt, than be returne: to his old habits, and worse in fact—for he now fell that it Wecomicbooks;com . -—," + - ‘ we >. 2 _ =e