The Strand Magazine 1909. (nem teljes évfolyam) [antikvár]

THE STRAND MAGAZINE. Vol. xxxviii. JULY, 1909. No. 223. R. LETTS had left his ship by mutual arrangement, and the whole of the crew had mustered to see him off and to express their sense of relief at his departure. After some years spent in long voyages, he had fancied a trip on a coaster as a change, and, the schooner Curlew having no use for a ship's carpenter, had shipped as cook. He had done his best, and the unpleasant epithets that followed him along the quay at Dunchurch as he followed in the wake of his sea-chest were the result. Vol. xxxviii.—1. Copyright, 1909, by W. W. Jacobs, Master and mate nodded in grim appreciation of the crew's efforts. He put his chest up at a seamen's lodging-house, and, by no means perturbed at this sudden change in his fortunes, sat on a seat overlooking the sea, with a cigarette between his lips, forming plans for his future. His eyes closed, and he opened them with a start to find that a middle-aged woman of pleasant but careworn appearance had taken the other end of the bencL " Fine day," said Mr. Letts, lighting another cigarette. , in the United States ot America.