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Stowaway Dick Harley Foils Shipboard Pirates
Dick Harley, a starving stowaway from England, endures cruelties aboard the Only Son of Portsmouth. He overhears a pirate plot to seize £250,000 in gold and alertly informs Captain and Mr. Lancelot, leading to Billings and accomplices’ capture and a grateful Chartered Company. Dick later reunites with his father in Salisbury Hospital as reward and trust shift to him.
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Mr. Billings
Mr. Bitlings
Cape Town
Dick Harley
Tenterden Grammar School
England
South Africa
Matabeleland
Lne
Lancelot
London
Mr. Lancelot
Portsmouth
Brings
Bank of England
Cecil Rhodes
Chartered Company of South Africa
Billings
Naten
Land of Nod
Bill
Cat
Chartered Company
Chartered Company of
Ick Harley
Salisbury
Utica Globe