Scalloway,
Shetland Islands,
1895.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Antecedents of Patrick Onslow | [11] |
| II. | A Fortune for the Pair of us | [18] |
| III. | The Requirements of Mrs. Shelf | [27] |
| IV. | Business at a Ball | [36] |
| V. | Bimetallism | [44] |
| VI. | The Tempting of Captain Owen Kettle | [55] |
| VII. | £500,000—in Gold | [66] |
| VIII. | The Send-off | [75] |
| IX. | Ground-Bait | [88] |
| X. | Mutiny | [100] |
| XI. | To-Night | [111] |
| XII. | A Dereliction | [124] |
| XIII. | Three for Twenty-seven | [137] |
| XIV. | A Pirates’ Harbor | [ 147] |
| XV. | Results in London | [162] |
| XVI. | For the Birthday List | [170] |
| XVII. | In the Matter of a Trust | [184] |
| XVIII. | The Plume-Hunters’ Dinner-Party | [198] |
| XIX. | Subjects for Matrimony | [213] |
| XX. | At Point Sebastian | [224] |
| XXI. | The Cyclone | [235] |
| XXII. | Mr. Shelf’s Little Surprise | [250] |
| XXIII. | Decisions | [263] |
| XXIV. | A Flight and a Resting-place | [277] |
| XXV. | Closing Strands | [288] |
| XXVI. | The Lucky Man | [295] |
HONOR OF THIEVES.
CHAPTER I.
THE ANTECEDENTS OF PATRICK ONSLOW.
Miss Rivers picked out the name of Patrick Onslow in the society paper which lay upon her knee, and drew idle circles round it with a pink ball-pencil. Fairfax tugged at his mustache, and returned to the subject which they had been discussing.