The Last Cruise of the Spitfire; or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage

ranspired since I had received it I had forgotten the writer's name and his address. I remembered the nam

o immediate communication with my father's friend, having any reply a

carried out. To send a letter hap

ing the trouble to don the clothing Lowell had pointed out to me. I looked

ntracted wh

on the suit I gave

eak to you," I returned. "Wha

n't seen any money,

easily tell that his

and some letters in my pockets,

andlubber!" he roared. "Do

here's m

Come, do as I

his fist at

going to have it," I went

what you're going to do," he cried.

rrested as a thief the first time I get the chan

"Just wait till I get a rope's en

nd. Lowell ran to the starboard side of the schooner, and

as I told you?" he asked,

I cried. "If you do you will h

cried. "Just wait till

ll force. I sprang aside, and received the blow squarely on my sh

nt I gave him one strong blow from the should

I did. Perhaps it was that my temper was at its highest, an

s face took on a sickly green color. A number of the sailors who had seen my action

that!" yelled Lowell, as

ome near me,

lay you

used to such treatment

moment the boatswain did not

ad seen with him in the lumber shed. "I'll give him a lesson he won't forget

ad been ordered. Evidently he did not

ds the stern of the schooner. I did not know anything about the vessel, and

the row about?

letters he took from me," I replied; a

orders, captain

orders while you'r

ill if I'm treated

as anything of yours I'll get it and keep it for you un

ry satisfactory settlement; but evidently i

s he followed me into the forecastl

" I returned, hotly, for I was not yet

the cabin-boy. "My, don't I

be some

hook h

e as this on the Spitfire. Say, are them your clothes?" he went on

or this trip. But I d

ease on them was de

ire ain't as clean as they might be, although the captain k

nd offer a dark form appeared at

annock, savagely. "What business have you got in there?

d the captain, that brute raised his brawny

captain stormed; and then he and his

l, much as I wished to do so. I could well understand the bully-like nat

It fitted fairly well, and after I had given the trousers severa