The Low Road (2010)
The Low Road
“So impressed was Captain Moore with my performance, both as barber and lover, that he decided to retain my services - and to ‘lose’ me as far as the English authorities were concerned. We continued our journey south to Liverpool, where Moore and the rest of the crew spent the night while I hid in the captain’s cabin, safe from prying eyes. When Moore returned the next morning, he recounted an interview with General Wade’s secretary at which he had concocted an elaborate story of how the ‘Jacobi...te Gordon’ had been caught stealing rum and been murdered by the enraged crew, his body thrown overboard somewhere off the Scottish coast. The secretary was furious, demanding that the corpse at least be brought in evidence, but Moore span a yarn about how sailors, superstitious souls that they were, refused to have a dead man on board. And so, in the eyes of the law at least, I ceased to exist.
The crew returned from shore leave very green around the gills, and were quite silent as they prepared for our onward voyage.MoreLess
The crew returned from shore leave very green around the gills, and were quite silent as they prepared for our onward voyage.MoreLess
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