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Title: The Dark Frigate
Author: Hawes, Charles Boardman
Date of first publication: 1923
Date first posted: December 3, 2015
Date last updated: November 26, 2016
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THE DARK FRIGATE
Wherein is told the story of _Philip Marsham_
who lived in the time of King Charles
and was bred a sailor
but came home to England after many hazards
by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury
and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados
in the same ship, by curious chance, in which
he had long before adventured
with the pirates.
BY CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES
_Frontispiece in Color by_
ANTON OTTO FISCHER
_AN ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOK_
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
BOSTON
_Copyright, 1923_,
BY THE TORBELL COMPANY
(Publishers of _The Open Road_)
_Copyright, 1923_,
BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, INC.
_Copyright, 1934_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
_All rights reserved_
_Twentieth Printing_
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOKS
ARE PUBLISHED BY
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[Transcriber’s Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
[Illustration: _With her great sails spread she thrust her nose into the
heavy swell._]
TO
GEORGE W. CABLE
WITH WARM ADMIRATION AND FILIAL AFFECTION
From _curious old books, many of them forgotten save
by students of archaic days at sea, I have taken
words and phrases and incidents. The words and phrases
I have put into the talk of the men of the Rose of Devon;
the incidents I have shaped and fitted anew to serve my
purpose_.
C. B. H.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I FLIGHT 3
II A LEAL MAN AND A FOOL 11
III TWO SAILORS ON FOOT 26
IV THE GIRL AT THE INN 35
V SIR JOHN BRISTOL 45
VI THE ROSE OF DEVON 57
VII THE SHIP’S LIAR 75
VIII STORM 83
IX THE MASTER’S GUEST 94
X BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING 101
XI HEAD WINDS AND A ROUGH SEA 108
XII THE PORCUPINE KETCH 120
XIII A BIRD TO BE LIMED 137
XIV A WONDERFUL EXCELLENT COOK 144
XV A LONESOME LITTLE TOWN 158
XVI THE HARBOUR OF REFUGE 171
XVII WILL CANTY 182
XVIII TOM JORDAN’S MERCY 192
XIX A MAN SEEN BEFORE 198
XX A PRIZE FOR THE TAKING 208
XXI ILL WORDS COME TRUE 215
XXII BACK TO THE INN 231
XXIII AND OLD SIR JOHN 237
XXIV AND AGAIN THE ROSE OF DEVON 242
THE DARK FRIGATE
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