"I'll lay you a wager, Morgan," said he to the first mate, "that the agent will speak of Sharkey in the first hundred words that pass his lips.

From time to time there came rumours of Sharkey over the sea.

Then they carried Sharkey to the gun and they triced him sitting over the port-hole, with his body about a foot from the muzzle.

II THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY WITH