The Wasp — 1918 — page 249: what you’re looking at

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240 THE WASP ~ had he, Alexander, ever done to provoke pity ? : _And perhaps some of this pity was not entirely unmixed with scorn. And it might be that some of these polite and mournful gentlemen - even pitied Elizabeth for having married a Burnham. James was a black disgrace to his ae James deserved hanging by the neck. But, by Heaven, . theré was something to be said in James’s favour ! ‘“T suspected something of ‘the kind,” said Alexander. ‘I knew that James had gone wrong. In fact, I knew that he had—had taken to this hellish trade. You have all heard about — the Tartar’s fight with the French twenty-two, and of the white schooner that came into the affair and saved the sloop? That was this same brother of mine. He threw a letter aboard in a bottle, with his name to it; but Scovil kept it quiet, for my sake. I showed the letter to my wife—she was not my wife then—and she des- _ troyed it. He came to the help of the Tartar — —and though he deserves hanging a dozen times over, he has that affair to his credit. That is all, gentlemen. You will forgive me, I know, for attempting to show that this infamous brother of mine is a shade less infamous "than _other — comicsookscom