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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 12: January, 1954 Ricardo Rodriguez O'Daniel, like most other people, was many things all at the same time. To begin with, to most folks who knew him at all he was a metal-smith second class in the U.S. Navy. They knew that he was a big, homely young man with an unruly head of blond hair, white eyebrows, and a freckled skin that blistered and peeled instead of turning handsomely tan when it was exposed to the sun. Also, Ricardo Rodriguez O'Daniel was the product of ah unusual ancestry, as his name would indicate. His father was an American of Irish descent who in his youth had been connected with a nitrate plant in Chile. His mother, originally named Maria del Rosario de Bonilla y Rodriguez, was a South American beauty who might have come straight from Spain for all anyone could tell by looking. But Ricardo O'Daniel - or Ricky, as his mother called him - would never himself be mistaken for a son of old Castile. He took after his father's side of the family in appearance. At the same time, he took after the Bonfflas and the Rodriguezes in temperament and ardor. His appearance, combined with his amorousness, made his life's roadbed a most rocky trail to travel. The rockiness of his trail helped make Ricardo O'Daniel one more thing: a windbag. Ricky O'Daniel, ME2, USN, turned off the valves of his acetylene torch, and the flame went out with a snap. He laid the torch down and pushed his goggles up on his red-freckled forehead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.