The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea

Hains, T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) · 1953

We had been sitting in at the game for more than an hour, and no life had entered it. The thoughts of all composing that little group of five in the most secluded corner of the ship's smoking room were certainly not on the game, and three aces lay down to fours up. The morose and listless ship's officer out of a berth, although he spoke little--if at all--seemed to put a spell of uneasiness and unrest on the party. The others did not know him or his history; but his looks spelled disaster and misfortune.…

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