A Man to His Mate. J. Allan Dunn

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066145811

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       BLIND SAMSON

       CHAPTER II

       A DIVIDED COMPANY

       CHAPTER III

       TARGET PRACTISE

       CHAPTER IV

       THE BOWHEAD

       CHAPTER V

       RAINEY SCORES

       CHAPTER VI

       SANDY SPEAKS

       CHAPTER VII

       RAINEY MAKES DECISION

       CHAPTER VIII

       TAMADA TALKS

       CHAPTER IX

       THE POT SIMMERS

       CHAPTER X

       THE SHOW-DOWN

       CHAPTER XI

       HONEST SIMMS

       CHAPTER XII

       DEMING BREAKS AN ARM

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE RIFLE CARTRIDGES

       CHAPTER XIV

       PEGGY SIMMS

       CHAPTER XV

       SMOKE

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE MIGHT OF NIPPON

       CHAPTER XVII

       MY MATE

       CHAPTER XVIII

       LUND'S LUCK

       THE END

CHAPTER I

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BLIND SAMSON

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      It was perfect weather along the San Francisco water-front, and Rainey reacted to the brisk touch of the trade-wind upon his cheek, the breeze tempering the sun, bringing with it a tang of the open sea and a hint of Oriental spices from the wharves. He whistled as he went, watching a lumber coaster outward bound. The dull thump of a heavy cane upon the timbered walk and the shuffle of uncertain feet warned him from blundering into a man tapping his way along the Embarcadero, a giant who halted abruptly and faced him, leaning on the heavy stick.

      "Matey," asked the giant, "could you put a blind man in the way of finding the sealin' schooner Karluk?"

      The voice fitted its owner, Rainey thought—a basso voice tempered to the occasion, a deep-sea voice that could bellow above the roar of a gale if needed. For all his shoregoing clothes and shuffle, the man was certainly a sailor, or had been. All the skin uncovered by cloth or hair was weathered to leather, the great hands curled in as if they clutched an invisible rope. He wore dark glasses with side lenses, over which heavy brows projected in shaggy wisps of red hair.

      Blind as the man proclaimed himself with voice and action, Rainey sensed something back of those colored glasses that seemed to СКАЧАТЬ