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Title: The Cruise of the Thetis
A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection

Author: Harry Collingwood

Illustrator: Cyrus Cuneo

Release Date: April 14, 2007 [EBook #21075]

Language: English

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The Cruise of the Thetis
A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection

By Harry Collingwood
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The Thetis is a fast motor-cruiser. The story takes us to Cuba, and
we visit various places in it (even Guantanamo!). There has been an
insurrection there and our heroes get themselves involved.

The book used was very well printed, and so the transcription was easy,
and we think it has been well-done.
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THE CRUISE OF THE THETIS
A TALE OF THE CUBAN INSURRECTION

BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD

CHAPTER ONE.

A FRIEND--AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

"Hillo, Singleton, old chap, how are you?" exclaimed a young fellow of
about eighteen years of age, as he laid his hand upon the shoulder of a
lad about his own age, who, on a certain fine July day in the year of
grace 1894, was standing gazing into the window of a shop in Piccadilly.

The speaker was a somewhat slightly-built youth, rather tall and slim,
by no means ill-looking, of sallow complexion and a cast of features
that betrayed his foreign origin, although his English was faultless.
The young man whom he had addressed was, on the other hand, a typical
Englishman, tall, broad, with "athlete" written large all over him; fair
of skin, with a thick crop of close-cut, ruddy-golden locks that curled
crisply on his well-shaped head, and a pair of clear, grey-blue eyes
that had a trick of seeming to look right into the very soul of anyone
with whom their owner happened to engage in conversation. Just now,
however, there was a somewhat languid look in those same eyes that,
coupled with an extreme pallor of complexion and gauntness of frame,
seemed to tell a tale of ill hea