Chapter 17 RESCUING THE GARRISON OF ATHENS

"I TELL you what it is, Mr. Beveridge," the governor said when the latter went up to call as usual upon his arrival at Corfu, "I quite begin to dread the appearance of that smart schooner of yours; during the last five weeks you have added a thousand mouths to my anxieties. What we are to do with all these poor creatures I have not the slightest id