Wild Justice : Stories of the South Seas
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It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and from her uneasy anchorage in the pass the German man-of-war struck the time, four bells. Overhead the sun shone fiercely through a mist of fire; below, the bay gave back a dancing glare; on the outer reef the long breakers foamed and tumbled, white as far as the eye could reach. From his perch beneath the bows of the Northern Light a sailor, paint brush in hand, was slowly wearing out the day-a brown-bearded, straight-nosed, handsome man of thirty, his red shirt open to the waist, his bare arms stained with the drippings of his brush. Astride of his plank, which hung suspended in midair by a block and tackle at either end, the seaman faced the task that seemed to have no end. For a week he had been at it, patch by patch, working his way round the bark, while the bells had struck on the man-of-war and the sun had risen and set.
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- ISBN-13: 9781518721670
- ISBN-10: 1518721672
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: November 2015
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 130
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