Chapter 24: Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling

Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling I Peg O’Neill Pays the Captain’s Debts A very odd thing happened to my uncle, Mr. Watson, of Haddlestone; and to enable you to understand it, I must begin at the beginning. In the year 1822, Mr. James Walshawe, more commonly known as Captain Walshawe, died at the age of eighty-one years. The Captain in his early days, and so long as health and strength permitted, was a scamp of the active, intriguing sort; and spent his days and nights in sow…