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The Free Rangers

CHAPTER XIV
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The inn has rum of both New England and Barbadoes, Spanish and French wines.

Now what shall it be ?" He turned to the five, and as they answered, one by one, the eyes of the young Spanish lieutenant opened wider and wider in astonishment.

They had never tasted rum and were quite sure they would not care for it.

Wine they knew, almost as little about, using that they had found on "The Galleon" chiefly as a medicine, and they ended, one and all, by choosing a mild West Indian drink, a kind of orange water.

Lieutenant Bernal reached over and with his two hands felt gingerly of Henry's mighty right arm.
"Do you mean to tell me," he said, "that such a muscle and such a body have been built up and nourished by things as mild as orange water ?" "Not orange water, but plain water," replied Henry laughing.


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