John Sharkey

…cried Sharkey, jumping off the gun and holding out his hand.…

…captain sharkey was not a man of genial mood nor had he any kindly sympathies for those who were of the same trade as himself copley banks had him seated astride upon one of the after guns with his new englander quartermaster ned galloway and a crowd of roaring ruffians standing about him yet none of them roared with quite such assurance when sharkey's pale…

…but the surgeon shook his head captain sharkey said he it would be an ill deed to speak you false the taint is on you no man on whom the leper scales have rested is ever clean again sharkey's head fell forward on his chest and he sat motionless stricken by this great and sudden horror looking with his smouldering eyes into the fearsome future…