. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). 44 /^/e^ in Summer Seas Say, he said, how old is that—er—cup? I told him the date, whereat he laughed sar-castically. Threateningly, I menaced him withthe pike head. He threw up his hands in mockhorror. For Gods sake! Dont do it here, wait untilwe get away from the Islands! he cried. Then:Mercy! Is that b-1-o-o-d, or only iron rust onyour shirt? I looked—it was rust! I felt much like theman who, thirsting for a new experience, tossed astale egg into an electric fan in motion. CHAPTER IV. =77HAT NIGHT we madethe acquaintance of aman whose identity i
. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). 44 /^/e^ in Summer Seas Say, he said, how old is that—er—cup? I told him the date, whereat he laughed sar-castically. Threateningly, I menaced him withthe pike head. He threw up his hands in mockhorror. For Gods sake! Dont do it here, wait untilwe get away from the Islands! he cried. Then:Mercy! Is that b-1-o-o-d, or only iron rust onyour shirt? I looked—it was rust! I felt much like theman who, thirsting for a new experience, tossed astale egg into an electric fan in motion. CHAPTER IV. =77HAT NIGHT we madethe acquaintance of aman whose identity ishidden in this narra-tive under the initialS . He was a mod-est Yorkshire gentle-man, hearty and bluntin manner and speech. In the period of ourassociation with him he was never known torefuse an invitation (and he received quite afew) to sample Scotch and soda. Interest in himto us was centered in the fact that he was a personof some authority on Ordnance Island and knewa great deal about Castle Harbor. Our intro- 45 46 Isles in Summer Seas ducers were K and Charon of the Styx. It was over a Scotch and soda, in the quaint oldEnglish looking bar of the Inn, that the Artistmade arrangements for a trip by sailboatover the Bay to the Natural Arches at TuckersTown. Good! Me boys—Ill take you there! Thisstatement was attended by an emphatic slap onthe Artists back that jarred the pipe from his mouth. S also had a habit of banging his empty glass down on the table with a slam thatstarted things. There was a good deal of general
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