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The Cruise of the Jasper B.

CHAPTER XXII
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Like King Henry Fifth of England, Cleggett found a certain pleasure in watching while his troops slumbered.

Cleggett and this lively monarch had other points in common, although Cleggett, even in his youth, would never have associated with a character so habitually dissolute as Sir John Falstaff.
The construction of the trench was not without its effect upon the gang of villains at Morris's.

About nine in the morning Cleggett noticed that he was under observation from the roof of the east verandah of the road house.

Loge and two of his ruffianly lieutenants were scrutinizing the Cleggett flotilla and fortifications through their binoculars.

Cleggett, through his own glass, returned the compliment.
The three men were conducting an animated discussion.


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