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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
desk.'
'An ordinary brass-bound walnut-tree writingdesk
with my name on the plate; but there can
be very little hope of finding it now.'
'Why do you say that?'
'My dear sir, I have seen sailors at work
aboard a captured ship.'
Jack made no reply but glancing through the
scuttle he saw that Bulkeley and his men had
now raised a spar on the stump of her mizenmast,
and that with an improvised lugsail she
was lying with her head to the sea, lying much
easier. The Surprise would be alongside in a
few minutes.
'Have you any officer surviving unhurt?' he
asked.
'None, sir. They were both killed.'
'A servant?'