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It is CS Forester canon that Edward Pellew takes a keen interest in Hornblower's later career, and was in the habit of sending him well trained servants and stewards, giving a good impression of an maiden aunt who's worried about her nephew's wellbeing. These tend to be good looking, and they tend to come to sticky ends - not dead as such, but exiled to America or held to ransom by Pirates. Often they take the first opportunity to escape life with Capt. H - one swims to freedom in Gibraltar, another marries the very first 17 year old female with two legs that comes along. Intrigued, I decided to learn more, and bugged the Dining Cabin on HMS Tonnant. Not so much a "fly on the wall" as a "weevil in the breadbasket" This is his report, signalled to a shore battery by firefly semaphore:

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