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"Not even in self-defence?" challenged Dalzell. "Not even to save myself," Darrin declared. At eight bells, in Lieutenant Cantor's absence, Darrin took the watch trick alone as officer of the deck until six bells, or eleven o'clock that night. There was not much to do. Now and then a shore leave man, sailor or marine, reported coming on board.
Cantor has admitted it to me -whatever the word of an adjudged lunatic may be worth poor fellow! "Now, as to Cantor's need of money, he was overwhelmed with gambling debts in New York. Some wild fancy told him that he could win money enough in Vera Cruz to pay his debts at home. He secured leave and went ashore.
If, however, these drawings represent six hundred distinct species of fish, they constitute, so far as I know, the largest collection of fish from one locality in existence. The number of known British fishes may be safely assumed to be less than 250, and Mr. Yarrell enumerates only 226, Dr. Cantor's valuable work on Malayan fishes enumerates not more than 238, while Dr.
"Not the " "Yes," Dave nodded. "But it seems incredible that an officer of our Navy could be guilty of any such conduct," Dalzell gasped, his eyes large with amazement. "Are you sure?" "Didn't you notice the welt on Mr. Cantor's cheek?" Dave asked, dryly. Danny Grin nodded, then fell silent over his plate.
That removed the taint of treason from the "Long Island's" ward-room, as an insane man is never held responsible for his wrong acts. It was gambling to excess, and the fear of being dropped from the Navy Register, that had caused the wreck of Cantor's mind. He is now properly confined in an asylum. Mrs.
The sharks and rays form about one seventh of our own fish fauna. They constitute about one tenth or one eleventh of Russell's and Cantor's lists, while among these Ceylon drawings I find not more than twenty, or about one thirtieth of the whole, which can be referred to this group of fishes.
Dan departed first, walking very erect and feeling unusually elated, for Dalzell had thoroughly liked the appearance of Trent in their brief meeting, and believed that he would be wholly contented in serving under that superior. While Dave's quarters were on the port side of the ship, Cantor's proved to be on the right side. The messenger halted before a curtained doorway, rapping.
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