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Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 325

1885 · Free to read

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About this issue

This serialized adventure story, appearing in Beadle & Adams' pulp weekly (January 14, 1885), follows a mysterious English nobleman sending a secret maritime expedition across the Atlantic. Lord Brandon, a formerly dissolute heir who claims to have made fortune in Cuba, hires the gruff sea captain Bronx and a disgraced young ex-midshipman named Sport (really Ralph Algernon) aboard a fast schooner for an undisclosed errand. The narrative shifts to the Maine coast, establishing the romantic setting and introducing "Light-house Nick," a youth accused of piracy who dwells with his widowed mother on an island. The plot involves concealed motives, social disgrace, and maritime intrigue, with Lord Brandon's mysterious origins and purpose suggesting criminal conspiracy.

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