This was the very last of the very few jokes that Captain Brand ever enjoyed.
"And, now I think of it, I wonder if my thirsty old mate's bones are yet lying there in the vault. What was his name? such a bad memory I have! Oh! Gibbs––Bill Gibbs––with one leg! Ho, ho!"
Here Captain Brand drained some more aguardiente out of a cracked earthen po
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