According to his promise, Stephen passed on Mrs Wogan’s request that she might add a letter to the rapidly filling bay. ‘I shall be interested to see what it contains,’ he said; and as he expected, Jack turned away – turned fast, but not quite fast enough to hide his expression of extreme distaste, and of something very near contempt. Captain Aubrey would do his utmost to deceive an enemy by the use of false colours and false signals, by making him believe that the ship was a harmless merchantman, a neutral, or a compatriot, and by any other ruse that might occur to his fertile mind. All was
...more
