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Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
| Author: | Various
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| Language: | English | |
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... An hour later Hugh Maclean, the engineer, and the lesser officers and thirty-two men of the _Saigon's_ company and some two score of Russian sailors were working like slaves transferring, under the supervision of a strong guard, the _Saigon's_ coal and cargo into the _Nevski's_ boats. Captain Brandon was not among the toilers. He would have been, perhaps, but for the circumstance that he had permitted himself the liberty of striking a Russian officer in the face. A marine having retorted with the butt end of a carbine, the Englishmen had helplessly watched their captain being carried off, bleeding and insensible, and dumped with a sickening thud into the Russian launch....