Excerpt from The Queen Versus Billy: And Other Stories Half an hour later, Facey, with twenty-five well armed men, had vanished into the mangroves, while Burder and his crew lay forty yards off the shore in the second cutter, the oflicer devouring Under Two Flags, and the men smoking and yarning in the bottom of the boat. On the Stingaree two light guns were cast loose and made ready to open fire at a mo ment's notice, and a lookout man was stationed in the maintop. The doctor busied himself in dismal prepa ration, while the captain paced the bridge with quick and anxious steps, fretting for the safety of his party ashore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.