The Flag-Lieutenant A STORY OF THE SLAVE SQUADRON BY S. WHITCHURCH SADLER, R.N. MARCUS WARD & CO., 67, CHANDOS STREET 1877 251. C. 662. CHAP. XXV.-A NIght ADVENTURE UP THE CONGO XXVI.-ONSLOW TURNS SPY PAGE . 239 247 THE FLAG-LIEUTENANT. CHAP. I.-THE WARDROOM OF H.M.S. ROVER. HREE years on the coast of Africa! I wonder how many of us will live to see old England again." The Coast is not so bad after all, Onslow. If death is on one side of the balance, promotion is on the other-to say nothing of prize money; which of course you, as a dashing young flaglieutenant, scorn; but which I, as an old first lieutenant, and a poor one too, welcome to my heart and pocket." "In fact, Langley, you consider that the chance of promotion, plus prize money, on the one side, weighs down that of death on the other." "Is there not something else?" said a third |