CONTENTS

THE WRECKER

PROLOGUE
PAGE
In the Marquesas[5]
THE YARN
CHAPTER
I.A Sound Commercial Education[19]
II.Roussillon Wine[32]
III.To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton[43]
IV.In which I experience Extremes of Fortune[58]
V.In which I am down on my Luck in Paris[71]
VI.In which I go West[86]
VII.Irons in the Fire: Opes Strepitumque[102]
VIII.Faces on the City Front[126]
IX.The Wreck of the flying Scud[139]
X.In which the Crew vanish[154]
XI.In which Jim and I take Different Ways[179]
XII.The Norah Creina[194]
XIII.The Island and the Wreck[210]
XIV.The Cabin of the Flying Scud[222]
XV.The Cargo of the Flying Scud[237]
XVI.In which I turn Smuggler, and the Captain Casuist[251]
XVII.Light from the Man of War[264]
XVIII.Cross-questions and Crooked Answers[278]
XIX.Travels with a Shyster[294]
XX.Stallbridge-le-Carthew[317]
XXI.Face to Face[330]
XXII.The Remittance Man[338]
XXIII.The Budget of the Currency Lass[363]
XXIV.A Hard Bargain[388]
XXV.A Bad Bargain[402]
EPILOGUE
To Will H. Low[427]