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    Officer And Man 1901
    Officer And Man 1901
    Officer And Man 1901
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    Officer And Man 1901

    By Louis Becke

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Officer And Man 1901 - Louis Becke

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      Title: Officer And Man

             1901

      Author: Louis Becke

      Release Date: April 12, 2008 [EBook #25060]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OFFICER AND MAN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      OFFICER AND MAN

      From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories

      By Louis Becke

      C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.

      1901

      The anchor of her Majesty's ship Hannibal was underfoot and the captain on the bridge, and Rear-Admiral Garnet had shaken hands with the last of the leading Fijian white residents, who always did the welcoming and farewelling when distinguished persons visited Levuka, when Lieutenant Bollard approached him and intimated that a person from the shore had just come alongside in a boat and desired to see his Excellency on private and important business.

      What the devil does the fellow want? said the Admiral irascibly, not a whit softened by the his Excellency style of address; I'm going on the bridge, and can't see any one now; we can't delay the ship and get into a mess going through the passage.

      Told him so, sir; but he says he wants to see you upon an important—a most pressing matter.

      Oh, well! Confound him! Let the sentry show him to my cabin, and tell Captain Bracely I shall be up in five minutes.

      The person, conducted by the sentry, was shown into the cabin, where the Admiral, without taking a seat or offering one to his visitor, inquired with a cold, cautious politeness born of much experience of island visitors with important and private Service matters of great urgency, what he might be pleased to want?

      The stranger was a short, fat, coarse-looking man with little pig-like eyes and scanty tufts of black beard and whiskers growing in irregular patches on his cheeks and chin, like clumps of gorse on clayey banks. He was dressed—in a manner—in an ill-fitting black cloth suit imported from Sydney. His hair was very black and shiny, plastered down over his temples and beautifully parted at the back of his bullet head. Altogether he was an unpleasantly sleek, oleaginous creature, and as he stood bowing and smirking with a catlike grin, the Admiral felt an almost irresistible impulse to kick him out of the cabin. Notwithstanding his haste, however, he began to recollect the man as an individual who had been introduced to him a few days

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