The Rover's Secret - A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rover's Secret, by Harry Collingwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Author: Harry Collingwood Illustrator: W. Christian Symons Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21071] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROVER'S SECRET *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England Harry Collingwood "The Rover's Secret" Chapter One. My Childhood. My father—Cuthbert Lascelles—was the great painter who, under a pseudonym which I need not mention here, was a few years ago well known in the world of art, and whose works are now to be found enshrined in some of the noblest public and private collections both at home and abroad. He was a tall and singularly handsome man; with clear grey eyes, and a stern resolute-looking mouth shadowed by a heavy moustache which, like his short curly hair and carefully trimmed beard, was of a pale golden tint. My mother died in giving me birth; and this, together with the fact that she was a native of Italy, was all I, for some years, knew concerning her.