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So he thinks he shall take to the sea again / For one more cruise with his buccaneers, / To singe the beard of the King of Spain, / And capture another Dean of Jaen / And sell him in Algiers. - / _A Dutch Picture_. -Longfellow
The Soudan campaign and Dick's broken head had been some months ended and mended, and the Central Southern Syndicate had paid Dick a certain sum on account for work done, which work they were careful to assure him was not altogether up to their standard. Dick heaved the letter into the Nile at Cairo, cashed the draft in the same town, and bade a warm farewell to Torpenhow at the station.