The Devil's Admiral

Captain Riggs had a trunk full of old logbooks, and he said any of them would make a better story than the Kut Sang. The truth of it was, he didn't want me to write this story. There were things he didn't wish to see in type, perhaps because he feared to read about himself and what had happened in the old steamer in the China Sea. «Folks don't care nothing about cargo-boats,» he would say, taking his pipe out of his mouth and shaking his head gravely, whenever I hinted that I would like to tell