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Begumbagh

by Fenn George Manville

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This book of short stories is an excellent read in the usual Fenn styleof suspense. "How does he get out of this one?" is always in thereader's mind.Most of the book is taken up with a story about the plight of theBritish members of a small garrison, during the Indian Mutiny.The second story is about half as long, and is a well-written andextremely plausible story about a house owned by an old gentleman ofancient lineage, where there is a collection of gold plate which wassaid to be an "incubus", that is, the subject of a curse. As indeedthere turns out to be.The third story is about a couple of smugglers who get trapped in a"gowt", which is the exit to the sea of one of the great land-drains ofEastern England, constructed by that great Dutch engineer, Vandermuyden, in the seventeenth century.And the last story is about a new and well-found ship, that nearlydoesn't weather a severe storm in the Atlantic. The captain has takento the bottle, and command is taken by a junior officer: the shipsurvives.

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...swearing at me again in your nastyheathen dialect, why, if I don't--No, " he says, stopping short, andhalf-turning to me, "I can't black his eyes, Isaac, for they're blackenough already; but let him come any more of it, and, jiggermaree, if Idon't bung 'em!"STORY ONE, CHAPTER EIGHT. Chunder didn't like the looks of Harry, I suppose, so he walked off, turning once to spit and curse, like that turncoat chap, Shimei, thatyou read of in the Bible; and we two walked off together towards ourquarters. "I ain't going to stand any of his nonsense, " says Harry. "It's bad making enemies now, Harry, " I said gruffly. And just then upcomes Measles, who had been relieved, for his spell was up now; andanother party were on, else he would have had to be in the guard-room. "There never was such an unlucky beggar as me, " says Measles. "If achance does turn up for earning a bit promotion, it's always some oneelse gets it. Come on, lads, and let's see what Mother Bantem's got inthe pot. ""You'll perhaps...