Carlyle Faces One Chance and Takes It
Carlyle Sees One Chance and Takes It in a tale of Monmouth rebellion exile and voyage. He meets Dorothy Fairfax in London and learns her uncle bought his services. Sanchez betrays him, and a clash aboard the Namur and Chesapeake sloop ends with a brutal confrontation and Carlyle left for dead.
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Syhopsia
Geoffry Carlyle
England
Roger Fairfax
Maryland
Kia Diece
Dorothy Fairfax
Lieutenant Sanchez
London
Carlyle
Dorothy
Sanchez
Fairfax
Chesapeake Bay
Rotterdam
Black Sanchez
Bay
Silent Drift On A Shark Sloop
The narrator recalls clinging to a boat after being knocked off a sloop. He drifts into the bay as his wounds sting and blood slows. He wakes to reality, unsure how to return, pondering if enemies will abandon ship or if Estada will link him to Funchez’s death.
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Sanchez
Cochese
Estada
Funchez
A Night Swim to The Namur in Rotterdam Reach
In a desperate bid to rescue Dorothy Fairfax, the narrator sails by moonlight toward the pirate Namur. He lands on the beach faces immediate danger, plans a stealth boarding, and swims through surf held by resolve and a slim chance of success to approach the vessel unseen.
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Dorothy Fairfax
Namur
Treasure Theft Plot In Unwatched House Aboard Boat
The speaker recalls a dangerous plan to seize fifty thousand pounds from an unguarded house while Istada leads a group and two old men sleep aboard a boat. Women and Dorothy are at risk of misfortune in the looming spoils division.
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Santa Mariat
Anderson
Mendez
Cochose
Dorothy
Energy and Will Power Move Through Life
A Cartoons Magazine excerpt extols energy as the force behind achievement, defining will as the core of character and urging courage and perseverance. It cites King Charles IX and a Spartan father to illustrate bold, decisive effort despite hardship.
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Saya
Charles IX
Sweden
Inconstancy and Contempt in Religion and Party
A reflective aphorism notes that shifting loyalty in religion or political faction earns contempt from both former allies and new friends, branding the quick to change as untrustworthy and disreputable. Addlaun.
Fragmentary Nautical Memoir Sketch
A distressed narrator clings to an anchor, seeking a way to reach the deck while the hazy scene emphasizes fear and effort. The fragment hints at a seaborne predicament and a determined mind at work.
Beating the Namur: Two Seamen Speak of a Drunken Stranger
In a perilous scene aboard the Namur a lookout notes two sailors tightening sails while a drunken stranger is hauled aboard. Bill Haines and Tom exchange rumors about the mysterious youth Manuel Estevan brought back, and the group recalls gifts of rum found in the boat.
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Namur
Tom
Bill Haines
Manuel Estevan
Jose
Estevan
Ant
Manuel
Namur Mission Complicates Carlyle’s Hidden Return
On the Namur Carlyle contemplates a desperate rescue of Dorothy. He weighs a risky plan to board unseen and evade detection, aware that exposure could spell his death. The scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Namur
Carlyle
Dorothy
Curious Wick harbor stone called a super altar
A marked relic found in Wick harbor is described by Doctor Curle of the National Museum of Antiquities Edinburgh as a close grained gridstone altar possibly from the fifteenth century. Portable altars like this were used when bishops could not attend to consecrate larger altars. Scotland had only two such super altars. this example is retained by the National Museum while a portion was returned to Wick museum. The five inch square stone bears five Greek crosses.
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Wick Harbor
Doctor Curle
National Museum of Antiquities
Edinburgh
Scotland
National Museum
Cnet
Wick Museum
Tiny Malayan coin used by natives of Malay Peninsula
A New Yorker describes a tiny Malayan coin made from the resin juice of a tree. It was among the smallest currency items used by natives of the Malay peninsula.
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Malay Peninsula
Salvation Army opens girls boarding home in Dallas
Captain Thel, a Salvation Army officer and nurse, leads a new girls boarding home at 1718 Corsicana Street Dallas to help girls from small towns enter city work. The twenty room hotel will house about thirty five, offers low prices up to seven dollars a room, with strict but few rules and nightly prayer services.
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Salvation Army
Dallas
Corsicana Street
Maja Thel
Sweden
Nurses’ Training Schood
Jamestown
New York
Chicago
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Salvation Army War Work in New Zealand
The Salvation Army runs the Soldiers' Hostel at Rotura New Zealand one of the best equipped war hostels. It began as a Convalescent Gold Star Institute with reading room lounge and tea room. A hall hosts Salvation Meetings and song services for troops. A motor launch and car shuttle convalescents for airings on the lake and country. Captain Hayes a returned soldier leads the institute with Captain Shearer who was badly gassed in the Somme.
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Salvation Army
New Zealand
Rotura
Goldlra’ Institute
Captain Hayes
Shearer
Salvation Army money pledge in war zone letter
A Dallas second lieutenant writes home about sending a large portion of his income to the Salvation Army. He vows if he ever owns a nickel the Army will take two and a half cents. He praises the organization’s work overseas.
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Salvation Army
Dallas
Leutenant
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Sanches
Foundation OF All Success
Bethin
Mist
Jenina
Jen
Cartoons Magazine
Addlaun
Dalia
Salvation Army War Work
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