Chard's

At Boca Grande Key, we hit the big channel water coming off the Atlantic, and Chard's 18-footer vaults into the air from swell to swell like an oceangoing dope runner.

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"What is it to be?" muttered Hendry, drawing the steer oar inboard, and putting his eager, cruel eyes close to Chard's face.

Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

Chard's mocking, careless manner filled him with a savage hatred, which only his fear of the man made him restrain.

Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

As he spoke a bullet from Chard's Snider struck the water about thirty yards away, and springing up, he seized his own rifle again.

Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

"What do you mean?" and Chard's face flushed with anger.

Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

Roka drew back, and planted his left foot firmly in the sand, as he placed the muzzle of his carbine against Chard's breast, and Chard, grasping the barrel in his left hand to steady himself, bent his dreadful face upon his chest.

Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884

Chard's VC was for great gallantry "in most trying circumstances".

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He died in 1897 and the VC remained in his family until 1972 when Baker bought it, as part of a collection including Chard's campaign medal, from Glendining's auctioneers for

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He died in 1897 and the VC remained in his family until 1972 when Baker bought it, as part of a collection including Chard's campaign medal, from Glendining's auctioneers for

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Peter Booth, 62, Chard's great-great-nephew, remembers seeing the VC pinned to the wall in his grandfather's dining room as a child.

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