Part 18 (1/1)

”There, there! no thanks, no thanks; I know exactly what you are struggling to say, and I will take it as said You need not trouble to thank ratitude; and if you behave as well under the pennant as you have hitherto done under the , I shall be ive you every opportunity of distinguishi+ng yourself and doing me credit For it happens that the _Triton's_ boats captured a becalht her in The lieutenant who led the attack lost his life, poor fellow, in boarding, so that he has not to be considered; and I propose, therefore, to purchase the craft into the service and give you the command of her She sails like a witch, I am told, and is a wonderfully powerful vessel, just the sort of craft to give a s fellow like yourself every chance to race up the ratlines of proe somehow to be relieved of your present command as soon as possible, and then to step into your new berth”

This I had no difficulty whatever in doing, thanks to the lucky chance of Captain Winter being in the saht, ; and the next evening I found ements had been made to relieve alleon hoht hours of the receipt of my commission I had entered upon my new career, and had ceased to be a privateersman

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