Reform Club,
October 27th, 1903.
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | The Second Officer | [1] |
| II. | Sauve Qui Peut | [10] |
| III. | The Castaways | [18] |
| IV. | Lost and Found | [30] |
| V. | A Touch of Fever | [37] |
| VI. | New Conditions | [48] |
| VII. | Denis and Nan | [57] |
| VIII. | Cold Water | [70] |
| IX. | The Canvas City | [79] |
| X. | Thieves in the Night | [90] |
| XI. | Strange Bedfellows | [102] |
| XII. | El Dorado | [114] |
| XIII. | The Enemy's Camp | [122] |
| XIV. | The First Claim | [133] |
| XV. | A Pious Fraud | [146] |
| XVI. | A Windfall | [158] |
| XVII. | Hate and Money | [168] |
| XVIII. | Rotten Gully | [178] |
| XIX. | New Blood | [187] |
| XX. | The Jeweler's Shop | [196] |
| XXI. | The Courier of Death | [211] |
| XXII. | Atra Cura | [220] |
| XXIII. | Broken Off | [231] |
| XXIV. | Death's Door | [243] |
| XXV. | Beat of Drum | [251] |
| XXVI. | Homeward Bound | [265] |
| XXVII. | The Great Gulf | [277] |
| XXVIII. | News of Battle | [289] |
| XXIX. | Guy Fawkes Day | [299] |
| XXX. | The Sandbag Battery | [310] |
| XXXI. | Time's Whirligig | [319] |
DENIS DENT
CHAPTER I
THE SECOND OFFICER
"Land ahead!"
The North Foreland had been made advisedly snug for the night. In the middle watch she was under her three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail only. Not that it blew very hard, but the night was dark and hazy, with a heavy swell. And it was the last night of the voyage.