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24 austere patriotism abruptly advanced him to the position of Master-at-arms. Of this maritime Chief of Police the ship’s-corporals, so called, were the immediate subordinates, and compliant ones; and this, as is to be noted in some business departments ashore, almost to a degree inconsistent with entire moral volition. His place put various converging wires of underground influence under the Chief’s control, capable when astutely worked thro’ his understrappers, of operating to the mysterious discomfort, if nothing worse, of any of the sea-commonalty. |
