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The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love

The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love

Le Queux, William

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9791041817955
Publisher: Culturea
Published: Jun 25 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
There was a mysterious affair last night, signore. Oh! I exclaimed. Anything that interests us? Yes, signore, replied the tall, thin Italian Consular-clerk, speaking with a strong accent. An English steam yacht ran aground on the Meloria about ten miles out, and was discovered by a fishing-boat who brought the news to harbor. The Admiral sent out two torpedo-boats, which managed after a lot of difficulty to bring in the yacht safely, but the Captain of the Port has a suspicion that the crew were trying to make away with the vessel. To lose her, you mean? The faithful Francesco, whose English had mostly been acquired from sea- faring men, and was not the choicest vocabulary, nodded, and, true Tuscan that he was, placed his finger upon his closed lips, indicative of silence. Sounds curious, I remarked. Since the Consul went away on leave things seem to have been humming-two stabbing affrays, eight drunken seamen locked up, a mutiny on a tramp steamer, and now a yacht being cast away- a fairly decent list! And yet some stay-at-home people complain that British consuls are only paid to be ornamental! They should spend a week here, at Leghorn, and they'd soon alter their opinion.

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