"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

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Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.
TO ITS GODFATHER JOHN S. PHILLIPS THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
'Where Angels Fear to Tread' was first published in the Atlantic Monthly ; Salvage in the Century Magazine ; The Brain of the Battle-Ship, The Wigwag Message, Between the Millstones, and The Battle of the Monsters, in the Saturday Evening Post ; The Trade-Wind in Collier's Weekly ; From the Royal-Yard Down in Ainslee's Magazine ; Needs Must when the Devil Drives and When Greek Meets Greek in McClure's Syndicate; and Primordial in Harper's Monthly Magazine.
To the publishers of these periodicals I am indebted for the privilege of republishing the stories in book form.
Morgan Robertson.
CONTENTS
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of each; and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
PART I