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Updated: May 29, 2025
Meanwhile the drum had called the men to quarters, the officers were on deck in uniform, and the marines drawn-up to form a guard of honour, sufficiently smart and warlike, with the white-ducked Jacks, and big guns bright as hands could make them, to impress the barbaric party coming on board.
Hench and Beck looked at each other from time to time. Finally the door opened, and, to the relief of all, two sweatered and white-ducked individuals appeared. "And now, Jeems, we'll smoke the pipe of peace," suggested Bert, diving for the mantel and the pipe rack. "Correct, my boy," responded Jeems, doing likewise. They lit up, and turned with simultaneous interest to their latest caller.
Surprisingly like some gay-coated lizard, he crouched at the foot of the cocoanut palm, and with the beady, shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile, sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin. On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up, guarded by one of the white-ducked crew.
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