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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. [The Pawning of the Fleet]
II. [The Admission to the Brotherhood]
III. [The Rape of the Spanish Pearls]
IV. [The Ransoming of Caraccas]
V. [The Passage-money]
VI. [The Mermaid and the Act of Faith]
VII. [The Galley]
VIII. [The Regaining of the Fleet]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[They marched ... like men who had lost all interest in life] . . . Frontispiece
[Prince Rupert shone out like a very Paladin]
[Then one Watkin, a man of iron and a mighty shooter, took the lead]
[It would be a perpetual sunshine for me, Querida]
[Master Laughan endeavoured to outdo them all in desperation and valour]