Pirate Tales:The Cruise of the Jasper B(Annotated): adventures in human being
By Don Marquis
CHAPTER I A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unost CHAPTER I A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY...
