The Two Admirals.

In between the death of the two octogenarian knights, separated of course by 30 years of British and North American history, takes place James Fenimore Cooper's novel of 1842, THE TWO ADMIRALS: A TALE OF THE SEA. Fully 2/3 of the story is on land, in or near terrible cliffs above the little port. A good quarter of the yarn, however, plays out during a storm at sea as the British fleet sails away to search for and try to destroy a more powerful French fleet. On land it is mostly talk: about the dying Sir Wycherly Wychecombe and a young naval lieutenant also named Wycherly Wychecombe who makes no claims either to be or not to be a relative of the baronet.