Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among the Turks

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Excerpt from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among the Turks: Being the Conclusion of the Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker The matter was not ended here, however. When they got on board, there was a very serious reception awaiting them. Their project had been discovered and betrayed to the skipper by some officious noodle, and Captain Willis was cot a little alarmed. The consequences might be very serious. So the captain had Jack and Harry Girdwood up, and gave them a word or two of a sort. "We wish to preserve the most friendly relations with the people here, Mr. Harkaway, " said he, severely, "and this sort of adventure is not calculated to achieve our object." Jack did not attempt to deny what had occurred. "We have done no harm, " he said, "we were simply cruising about when we saw murder done. We arrived too late to prevent it, but Tinker was pleased to take it upon himself to avenge the murdered woman, for a woman it was, as we could tell from her shrieks as the sack went under and stifled them for ever." The captain was somewhat startled at this. "Is this true?" "I would have yon know, captain, that I am not in the habit of saying what is not true." The captain bowed stiffly at young Jack's rebuke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.