Ralph D. Paine

“ While I must confess that I could not ordinarily approve of such summary methods as you made use of——"
"It looks different now that old England is dropping astern," suggested O'Shea. "The British constitution doesn't loom as big as it did. Your own flag is at the masthead, your majesty, and you can make treaties if ye like. I thank you with all my heart for the reward you have given me."
"It pleases me a heap more to be a member of the nobility of Trinadaro than to earn big wages for the voyage," warmly assented Johnny Kent. ”

“ The cabman strenuously assured him that this was the Tarlington, and he decided that he had better go aboard and look for Captain O'Shea. If a mistake had been made, it ought to be an easy matter to find the landing pier and the waiting tug.
No sooner had the deluded king reached the deck than he was convinced that he had been directed to the wrong steamer. The people who stared at him curiously were utter strangers. There was not a subject of Trinadaro among them ”

“ Suddenly grasping one of the officers by the back of the neck and the slack of his garments, he propelled him rapidly toward the deck, fiercely admonishing him to make no outcry unless he wished to be tossed overboard with a bullet in him. ”