CONTENTS

Part I

CHAPTER

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I.Spreading the Strands [5]
II.Calm [7]
III.High Noon [15]
IV.Sunset [21]
V.Darkness [24]
VI.Danger [33]
VII.The Meeting and Mourning [42]
VIII.Captain Brand at Home [44]
IX.Captain and Mate [53]
X.An Old Spaniard with One Eye [61]
XI.Conversation in Pockets and Sleeves [69]
XII.Doctor and Priest [73]
XIII.A Manly Fandango [79]
XIV.A Pirates’ Dinner [85]
XV.Drowning a Mother to Murder a Daughter [92]
XVI.Nuptials of the Girl with Dark Eyes [103]
XVII.Doom of Doña Lucia [112]
XVIII.End of the Banquet [119]
XIX.Fandango on One Leg [122]
XX.Business [133]
XXI.Treasure [138]
XXII.Pleasure [144]
XXIII.Work [150]
XXIV.Caught in a Net [154]
XXV.The Mouse that Gnawed the Net [160]
XXVI.The Hurricane [166]
XXVII.The Virgin Mary [168]
XXVIII.The Ark that Jack Built [173]

Part II

XXIX.Laying Up the Strands [179]
XXX.Old Friends [186]
XXXI.The Commander of the “Rosalie” [193]
XXXII.A Splice Parted [198]
XXXIII.The Blue Pennant in the Cabin [201]
XXXIV.The Devil to Pay [203]
XXXV.And the Pitch Hot [208]
XXXVI.The Chase [214]
XXXVII.The Wreck of the “Centipede” [220]
XXXVIII.Vultures and Sharks [226]
XXXIX.Escondido [231]
XL.Paul Darcantel [236]
XLI.Instinct and Wonder [243]
XLII.Truth and Terror [247]
XLIII.Peace and Love [252]
XLIV.Snuff out of a Diamond Box [256]
XLV.Lilies and Sea-weed [262]
XLVI.Parting [266]
XLVII.Devotion [270]
XLVIII.All Alive Again [273]
XLIX.The Rope Laid Up [278]
L.On a Bed of Thorns [288]