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    Jack Pepper Discovers the Lusitania
    Jack Pepper Discovers the Lusitania
    Jack Pepper Discovers the Lusitania
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    Jack Pepper Discovers the Lusitania

    By Martin Tarpey

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    Jack Pepper and his friends are researching the fascinating history of his great grandfather, John Nelson Pepper in 1915 who after a series of adventures found himself on the Lusitania.
    The book is fiction but based on historical fact and describes how nearly 1,200 passengers were lost and only 764 saved. The story of the courageous work of seamen and fishermen is told as the youngsters research the many rescue attempts made. They also discover what happened to the U boat and its crew. The children learn a great deal about themselves by seeing how their ancestors faced their problems, enduring unbelievable hardship in their lifelong search for companionship, happiness and love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Tarpey
    Release dateJan 2, 2016
    ISBN9781311525260
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      Jack Pepper Discovers the Lusitania - Martin Tarpey

      Jack Pepper Discovers

      the Lusitania

      Martin Tarpey

      Copyright 2015 Martin Tarpey

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, the please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - The Beginning

      Chapter 2 - The Greatest Idea In The World

      Chapter 3 - A Leap in the Dark

      Chapter 4 - In The Depths

      Chapter 5 - A Very, Very, Very Big Mistake

      Chapter 6 - And Yet

      Chapter 7 - Getting To Grips

      Chapter 8 - An Angel of Light

      Chapter 9 - The Great Unthinkable

      Chapter 10 - Heroes All

      Chapter 11 - U 20

      Chapter 12 - The End Is The Beginning

      Chapter 13 - Hard Lessons Well Learned

      Chapter 1 The Beginning

      In his dream, Jack stared deep into the face of the skeleton. The skull suddenly grinned at him, so Jack grinned back. It’s what he did, Jack was always grinning. He saw a long line of silent men waiting to buy a ticket from this skeleton in the Cunard steamship sales office. When each man reached the front of the queue he gave his money to the skeleton who grasped his wrist firmly while pushing a ticket into his hand. Lusitania was printed on one side of the ticket and on the other a picture of this massive ship sinking after being torpedoed. Men had been buying tickets to go to their deaths.

      Jack was woken by heavy rain beating against the bedroom window. He saw a flash of lightning rip through a chink in the curtains as a growl of thunder rumbled through the morning air. It was a summer storm and it was time for him to get up, but not yet. He was still thinking about that hungry looking skeleton. What on earth was that dream all about? Glancing at his watch, Jack knew that in five minutes time his dad would shout up the stairs to say that breakfast was ready. He would have burned the bacon.

      It was Saturday, the first day of the six week school summer holiday and Jack knew it was going to be one that he would never forget. He didn’t know why. He just knew, and that was his problem. He just knew, and he wanted to know why he knew these things.

      He glanced at himself in the wardrobe mirror and a cheeky chestnut haired boy with his famous chipped front tooth winked and grinned at him. Jack knew that some time he would have to get that tooth fixed; Grace was always on at him to get it sorted, but not now. He was only 15 and he would get it done before he left school perhaps, after all it was his trade mark and he was one of the most famous schoolboys in England.

      He was the famous Jack Pepper, whose four main adventures had been plastered all over the nation’s newspapers and television screens in recent years. Everybody knew who Jack Pepper was, that is everybody except the boy who was looking at him in the mirror. He didn’t know who he was. But he was going to find out. Now was the hour! The dentist would have to wait, he had other things to think about!

      ‘Jack, are you up yet?’ His father’s voice bellowed up the stairs. ‘I’ve cooked your breakfast, come and get it.’ Jack smiled as he slipped on his dressing gown and drifted downstairs, his nose following the aroma of burnt bacon. His dad tried hard, but his best wasn’t very good.

      ‘I keep telling you dad,’ he yawned. ‘You’ve to stand over it while it’s cooking, you can read the paper later. You’ve got to concentrate and keep turning the bacon over. I keep telling you, but you’re just not learning!’ The sharp tone in his voice made his dad look at him closely. Jack was a good natured kid, it wasn’t like him to be grumpy. Phil Pepper was concerned.

      ‘Are you all right son, feeling ok?’ Jack didn’t answer, so Phil persisted.

      ‘Anything on your mind, anything you want to talk about? Here sit down and eat my burnt offering, better still, I’ll make you some toast and coffee.’ He smiled at Jack as he realised that the boy was troubled.

      Jack was annoyed with himself for being rude to his beloved father. His dad who saved his life only two weeks ago while he was hanging by one arm after falling from the scaffolding while staring at the Green Man’s face, high on the wall in that old Somerset church. Lucy was right when she said that he would have been a goner but for his dad hauling him to safety.

      His father was so precious to him and had always been there for him, guiding him and all his pals through their adventures in Whitby, Towton, York and Weston-super -Mare. These adventures had made the Pepperites world famous.

      ‘Sorry dad, I didn’t mean to be irritable, it’s just that I’ve got things on my mind.’

      ‘What sort of things son?’

      ‘It’s difficult to say dad, but there are some things about myself that I just don’t understand.’

      ‘Such as what?’ Phil Pepper persisted. Jack hesitated, he looked troubled.

      ‘Well, sometimes I feel that I know what’s going to happen next, that I can predict the future.’

      ‘Anything else?’ Phil grinned as he poked a piece of toast out of the toaster, slopped some coffee in two cups and sat down heavily across the table from his son.

      ‘Look Jack, I knew that you were going to grumble about my cooking this morning, I predicted it, sometimes, we all feel confused and don’t not know why we do some things. You’re growing up very quickly and so much has happened to you all that you’re bound to feel dazzled by the world.’ Jack smiled.

      ‘I understand that dad, but I don’t know anything about my family, who we are, where we’ve come from or what’s happened to us in the past. If I knew that it would help me to understand myself. There’s just so much I don’t know.’ His dad’s face paled as he listened to Jack. He didn’t like to see him troubled like this.

      ‘Jack, most of our ancestors were poor, I remember your dear old grandad telling you about them, they lived harsh lives experiencing great hardship. Their characters were formed by what they had to face. They just had to win through.’

      ‘I know that dad and I remember him saying that his father was on the Lusitania when it was sunk, I just wish that I had asked him about it.’ Phil suddenly had a bright idea.

      ‘Look, I tell you what will help, find out about your great grandad, John Nelson Pepper. He led an astonishing life, you’ll be amazed at what he did.’ Jack’s face lit up, he knew very little of his famous ancestor. The fire in Jack’s eyes encouraged his dad to tell him more.

      ‘He ended his days living in a lodging house here in Leeds and when he died what few possessions he had were found in an old cardboard box.’

      ‘Where’s that box now dad?’ Jack asked eagerly.

      ‘It’s in the loft son, there’s not much there except his

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