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Title: Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
Author: A. E. W. Mason
Release Date: July 9, 2004 [eBook #12859]
Language: English
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ENSIGN KNIGHTLEY AND OTHER STORIES
By
A. E. W. MASON
Author of "The Courtship of Morrice Buckler," "The Watchers," "Parson Kelly," etc.
1901
CONTENTS.
ENSIGN KNIGHTLEY THE MAN OF WHEELS MR. MITCHELBOURNE'S LAST ESCAPADE THE COWARD THE DESERTER THE CROSSED GLOVES THE SHUTTERED HOUSE KEEPER OF THE BISHOP THE CRUISE OF THE "WILLING MIND" HOW BARRINGTON RETURNED TO JOHANNESBURG HATTERAS THE PRINCESS JOCELIANDE A LIBERAL EDUCATION THE TWENTY-KRONER STORY THE FIFTH PICTURE
ENSIGN KNIGHTLEY.
It was eleven o'clock at night when Surgeon Wyley of His Majesty's ship Bonetta washed his hands, drew on his coat, and walked from the hospital up the narrow cobbled street of Tangier to the Main-Guard by the Catherine Port. In the upper room of the Main-Guard he found Major Shackleton of the Tangier Foot taking a hand at bassette with Lieutenant Scrope of Trelawney's Regiment and young Captain Tessin of the King's Battalion. There were three other officers in the room, and to them Surgeon Wyley began to