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The Courage of Captain Plum
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Title: The Courage of Captain Plum
Author: James Oliver Curwood
Release Date: May 20, 2004 [EBook #12388]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "I am going to take you from the island!"]
The COURAGE of CAPTAIN PLUM
BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 1912
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK E. SCHOONOVER
CHAPTER I
THE TWO OATHS
On an afternoon in the early summer of 1856 Captain Nathaniel Plum, master and owner of the sloop Typhoon was engaged in nothing more important than the smoking of an enormous pipe. Clouds of strongly odored smoke, tinted with the lights of the setting sun, had risen above his head in unremitting volumes for the last half hour. There was infinite contentment in his face, notwithstanding the fact that he had been meditating on a subject that was not altogether pleasant. But Captain Plum was, in a way, a philosopher, though one would not have guessed this fact from his appearance. He was, in the first place, a young man, not more than eight or