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Orontes Wedding on the High Seas Ends in Spouse Pact
Alden Drake the captain of the clipper Orontes launches a strange wedding aboard near Sunda Straits. Jake Stevens loses command while Mary Manning becomes Mrs Stevens. Drake proposes a wedding gift a one quarter share of the Orontes and hints at future gifts for the couple and child prospects as the ship sails on toward new ownership and happiness.
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Alden Drake
Jake Stevens
Mary Manning
Cape Town
Stevens
Drake
Java
Mary
Orontes
Jake
Ing
Epd
Bill Gadgett
Mister Stevens
Mister Twining
Ske
Twining
Magary
Alden Talbot Drake
Captain Stevens
Adams
Mrs. Stevens
Young Adams
Mister Adams
Sunda Straits
Ber Rt
Prigat
Alden
Jake Blevens