CAPTAIN SHANNON

COULSON KERNAHAN

AUTHOR OF “A DEAD MAN’S DIARY,” “A BOOK OF STRANGE SINS,”
“SORROW AND SONG,” “GOD AND THE ANT,” ETC.

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1896

Copyright, 1896,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Chapter		Page
[I]	[Who is “Captain Shannon”?]	[1]
[II]	[Captain Shannon’s Manifesto]	[9]
[III]	[The “Daily Record” to the Rescue]	[20]
[IV]	[The Murder in Fleet Street]	[25]
[V]	[The Identity of Captain Shannon disclosed at last]	[34]
[VI]	[I make up my Mind to find Captain Shannon]	[44]
[VII]	[My First Meeting with James Mullen]	[52]
[VIII]	[The Dynamite Hulk]	[66]
[IX]	[I take up my Quarters at Canvey]	[74]
[X]	[I board the “Cuban Queen”]	[81]
[XI]	[Personal Explanations]	[94]
[XII]	[How Captain Shannon’s Autograph came into my Possession]	[101]
[XIII]	[I possess Myself of the Secret of James Bakewell Green]	[113]
[XIV]	[One of the Documents which cost my Inquiry Agent his Life]	[120]
[XV]	[A Document of Importance]	[127]
[XVI]	[Henry Jeanes, alias James Mullen]	[136]
[XVII]	[On the Heels of James Mullen]	[142]
[XVIII]	[I become a Hairdresser’s Assistant]	[160]
[XIX]	[“Are there any Letters for Henry Jeanes, please?”]	[166]
[XX]	[How James Mullen and Myself almost met]	[171]
[XXI]	[How I struck James Mullen’s Track]	[180]
[XXII]	[The Artfulness of James Mullen]	[193]
[XXIII]	[How I got wedged in a Window, and left behind]	[200]
[XXIV]	[A Pretty Kettle of Fish!]	[213]
[XXV]	[James Mullen and I meet at last]	[219]
[XXVI]	[After the Explosion]	[226]
[XXVII]	[I play a Game of “Bluff” with Hughes]	[241]
[XXVIII]	[I board the “Cuban Queen” for the Second Time]	[254]
[XXIX]	[I try a Fall with James Mullen]	[259]
[XXX]	[More Devilry]	[274]
[XXXI]	[The Arrest of Captain Shannon]	[281]

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