by Robert E. Howard

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Sailor Steve Costigan: The Complete Collection

Steve Costigan is a mariner and amateur boxer, with a heart of gold and a head of solid wood. In these 21 tales, he blows around the waterfronts of various Far East ports with his white bulldog Mike, getting swindled by clever dames, subduing the occasional underworld criminal, and getting into fistfights with anyone who can take a good punch, in and out of the ring.

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1. The minute I stepped ashore from the Sea Girl…
2. Me and this girl, whose name is Raquel La Costa…
3. And with that she turned back and walked away…
4. At last we stopped at a large building some distance outside the city…
5. The confidence with which the dip said that last gave me cold shivers…
6. Now, understand, this was a very different fight…
7. At this moment the gong sounded…
8. The fourth! Slade came up weakened…
9. Let’s pass over the immediate events…
10. “And,” said I, as we leaned upon the bar…