The Wasp, 1918 · page 306 of 330
The Wasp — 1918 — page 306: what you’re looking at
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This page is prose fiction, not a cartoon. It's a serialized narrative from *The Wasp* magazine (page 297) depicting an unnamed male character aboard a ship returning to "the green isles," reflecting on a woman named Kitty whom he had to abandon, and on his brother Alexander who freed him from legal custody by cutting his bonds in Bottle Harbour. The passage suggests the protagonist is a criminal or fugitive whom his brother helped escape. His conflicted feelings about Kitty—simultaneously loving her yet surrendering her to someone named Willis—and his gratitude toward Alexander for literal and legal deliverance form the emotional core. Without additional context about the serial's installment or publication date, the specific historical references remain unclear, though the maritime setting and themes of escape suggest a 19th-century adventure narrative.
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THE WASP 207 of gold, he knew how little is to be bought with It. a In his narrow berth in the merchantman that was taking him back to the green isles and narrow seas he lay awake for hours every night, thinking, thinking. His thoughts dealt often with Kitty. He wondered why he had wanted her so persistently—why, for that matter, he wanted her still. ‘¢ After all is said and done, the fact remains that I loved the pretty wench, else I’d never have let her go to Willis when ! had her in my hand,” he reflected. This reflection amused him, but it was a bitter sort of amusement that sometimes verged on self-pity. He liked-to recall and repicture in his clear mind the night of his capture and escape in Bottle Harbour. He could see Alex- ander’s face now, close to his own, white and unmistakable in the dark, and twisted with anxiety and a desperate purpose. He felt his brother’s fingers on his wrist again, and the shearing cut of the knife across the gnawing cords. : It pleased him to think that his brother a set*him free from the grip of the law—that he ~ owed his deliverance to a man of his own blood. comichooks.com=-