Crossword-Solution: HENNESEY 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

And it all worked out the way he hoped, even to the offer of a drink--good brandy--Hennesey's Three Star.

Then some sharp words of command from the poop, in Mr Hennesey's well-known tones,--dulcet as those of a bullfrog with a bad cold,--came floating up to me, followed by the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe and his hoarse bellow of, "Hands make sail!" A few minutes of orderly confusion down on deck and on the yards below me now ensued, and when it ceased the _Althea_ was running square away before the languid but slowly strengthening breeze, with studding-sails set on both sides.

The plot was thickening, and it was not wholly without a certain feeling of exhilaration that I again hailed the deck-- "A frigate broad on our port quarter, sir, with a very Frenchified look about her!" "Thank you again, Mr Courtenay," answered Hennesey, with an unmistakable ring of delight in his jovial Irish accent, which, by the way, had a trick of growing more pronounced under the influence of excitement.

Young Hudson--a smart little fellow, barely fourteen years old, and the most juvenile member of our mess--was soon on deck again with the second lieutenant's telescope; but by this time the fog had shut the stranger in again, so, for the moment, friend Hennesey's curiosity had to remain unsatisfied.

And she too is a frigate, and French, unless I am greatly mistaken." "By the powers, Mr Courtenay, I hope you may be right," answered Hennesey.