title: Houghton Mifflin Reading: Student Edition Grade 2.1 Adventures 2001
author: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
description: Adventures: Level 2.1 (Houghton Mifflin Reading) [Hardcover]
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  CHAPTER I
  
  
  AN INTERRUPTED CRUISE
  
  
  MAJOR James Bigglesworth, known to his many friends (and quite a few enemies)
  as Biggles, tossed aside the book he had been reading, and stretching out his
  arms with a gesture of utter boredom, yawned audibly. The movement caused the
  deck-chair in which he was reclining to creak ominously; the sound brought a
  muttered exclamation of alarm to his lips, and he relaxed quickly to his
  original position. The book lay where it had fallen on the deck near his feet,
  the pages fluttering noisily in the fresh sea breeze.
  
  
  `Your book'll be overboard in a minute if you don't look out,' observed Algy
  Lacey from the next chair of the three that were lined up just abaft the red
  funnel of the S.S.
  
  
  Stavritos. Ginger Hebblethwaite, Biggles's protégé, occupied the third.
  
  
  Biggles made no movement to recover the book although it was clear that Algy's
  warning was well founded. 'A w