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The Wreck of the Gladstone [A 'The Company' Story] [MultiFormat]
eBook by Kage Baker
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Catalina Island, 1894: Kalugin and his crew of Immortals attempt to recover a rare painting from a sunken ship, but first they must contend with one of the ship's survivors ... a mortal on a treasure hunt of his own.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2001
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [111 KB], eReader (PDB) [41 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [29 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [27 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [46 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [100 KB], hiebook (KML) [93 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [53 KB], iSilo (PDB) [24 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [30 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [58 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [44 KB]
Words: 8610
Reading time: 24-34 min.
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"O God, it's Mackie Hayes!" he said. He didn't say it loudly, but all heads turned to stare at him. The gimlet eye of the vulgar sailor widened. He uttered a word I will not stain paper with and followed it with the cry of "Captain Pomeroy!" Then, in an act of physical bravado I would not have thought a mortal man capable of performing, he vaulted the span of sea between his craft and ours and landed on the deck beside Kalugin. The girl at the tiller gave a weak scream. Kalugin found his lapels seized in an iron grip and the sailor's stubbled face a bare inch from his own. "Where were ya?" shouted the sailor. "When the Gladstone was foundering and there was good men going to the bottom, I ask ya? Where were ya when the spars was snapping and the mast broke off clean? Hiding in yer bunk, ya no-good son of a w--!" Kalugin had gone very white. He moistened his lips with his tongue and said, "You mistake me, sir. Captain Pomeroy was my father."
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