[Gutenberg 45141] • Pirates' Hope
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- Authors
- Lynde, Francis
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Tags
- yachting -- fiction , pirates -- fiction , treasure troves -- fiction , caribbean sea -- fiction , islands -- fiction , castaways -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9798618372824
- Date
- 2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.21 MB
- Lang
- en
TO those who knew him best and had known him longest, Bonteck Van Dyck, sometime captain of his university eleven, a ball player with the highest batting average on the university nine, a large-lettered star in everything pertaining to athletic accomplishments, and above and beyond this the fortunate-or unfortunate, as one chooses to view it- inheritor of the obese Van Dyck fortune, figured, like the dead kitten discovered on the ash heap by the investigative infant, as "a perfectly good cat, spoiled."