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Gonzales was fairly doubled up with laughter at the ludicrous incident, choking so that speech had becoan hurrying forward on a run down the passageway to rescue their imperilled co hands uponuniform, with an inflamed, almost purple face, leaped an laying about hi use meanwhile of a vocabulary of choice Spanish epithets such as I never heard equalled

"By the shrine of Saint Gracia!" shouted this new arrival hoarsely, glaring about in the diht as if half awakened from a bad dream "Whatshow--a place for ray-back of a uard, in spite of your robe Get up, you drunken brute!"

The crestfallen soldier to whom these last affectionate words were addressed limped painfully away, and then the justly irate colowered down on me with an astonishment that for the er co one of his heavy sea-boots tosuch cattle on board hly sobered by the seriousness of the situation, atteun his story, the Captain, who by this tiain: "Oh, so you brought him! You did, hey? Well, did n't I tell you to let no lazy, loafing buood-for-nothing scu such a creature as this down between decks to disgrace the whole of His Majesty's navy? Get up, you bundle of rags!"

I scra to shuffle to one side out of his ied collar and held ht he meant to strike me, but I appeared such a er died slowly out of his eyes

"Francisco," he called sternly, "heave this thing overboard, and be lively about it! Saints of Mercy! he sed, cuffed, ot li planks under foot, the horrified, upturned, face of Alphonse in the little boat beneath, and then, with a heave and a curse, over I went, sprawling down from rail to river, as terrified a darky as ever made hasty departure from a man-of-war