George Manville Fenn

"Dutch the Diver"

"A Man's Mistake"


Story 1--Chapter I.

Story One — Dutch the Diver.

At the Diver’s Office.

“I say, Rasp. Confound the man! Rasp, will you leave that fire alone? Do you want to roast me?”

“What’s the good o’ you saying will I leave the fire alone, Mr Pug?” said the man addressed, stoking savagely at the grate; “you know as well as I do that if I leave it half hour you never touches it, but lets it go out.”