[CONTENTS]
[CHAPTER I. A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TRAVELERS' CLUB.]
[CHAPTER II. "THE DUEL ON THE SANDS."]
[CHAPTER III. THE ASSASSIN AT WORK.]
[CHAPTER IV. ADÉLE.]
[CHAPTER V. THE VOYAGE.]
[CHAPTER VI. THE ABANDONED SHIP.]
[CHAPTER VII. THE MYSTERY OF THE DESERTED VESSEL.]
[CHAPTER VIII. A LOVERS' QUARREL.]
[CHAPTER IX. THE RACE.]
[CHAPTER X. A RECONCILIATION.]
[CHAPTER XI. FORTUNE-TELLING.]
[CHAPTER XII. MRS. VAN HOOSEN SACRIFICES HER DAUGHTER TO HER AMBITION.]
[CHAPTER XIII. "A BUFFALO-HUNT."]
[CHAPTER XIV. MASTER AND SLAVE.]
[CHAPTER XV. MR. MOLE PLAYS BASE-BALL.]
[CHAPTER XVI. BAMBINO IN THE HOSPITAL.]
[CHAPTER XVII. JACK MAKES A LAST APPEAL.]
[CHAPTER XVIII. THE BRIDAL.]
[CHAPTER I.]
A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TRAVELERS' CLUB.
"'Pears to me, Marse Jack, you done gone been quiet long 'nuff dis spell," exclaimed Monday, Jack Harkaway's colored servant, as he entered his master's room at the hotel.
It was a fine morning in the month of October.
Jack Harkaway at the age of eighteen, well supplied with money, had been leading an idle life in London for some time.
This did not suit Monday's ideas at all.
Looking up from the newspaper he was reading, Jack pushed back his curly hair from his ample forehead and smiled.