Kep received a capital appointment as interpreter and secretary at Whitehall, where he remained till the terrible war was over.
Adolph went back to Austria, but promised to visit Martello many times and oft.
I need hardly say a word about Stormalong. Fact is he married his Katie, who had been as true to her sailor boy as the needle to the pole.
The Blue Ensign was transformed completely, and made into a really fashionable hotel, and everybody was proud of the jolly sailor landlord, who often condescended even to appear at the bar counter itself, and his laugh at such time, shook the very rigging, as Stormalong himself would have described it.
But in this hotel there was a snuggery, called the Man-o'-War Sailors' own room. Only sailors and sailor's friends were ever admitted, but to drop in there of an evening and listen to the yarns that the seamen spun--each with his pipe and his pint--would have made life seem pleasanter to the veriest hypochondriac.
But--but--why I don't think there is another "but" about it.
Lower away with the curtain. Good-bye, my brave British boys. And just one little cheer for the British Royal Navy.
THE END.
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome and London.
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