To

MR. LATHROP BROCKWAY BULLENE

sole friend of my boyhood, who will recall better
than any the youthful moral and social seed-time
which has led to this later harvesting of conclusion,
this book is affectionately inscribed.

CONTENTS

chapter page
I.[At Chaudière's]1
II.[Spindrift]9
III.[The Right of Might]16
IV.[Io Triumphe!]26
V.[The Belle Julie]34
VI.[The Deck-Hand]44
VII.[Gold of Tolosa]53
VIII.[The Chain-Gang]59
IX.[The Middle Watch]68
X.[Quicksands]75
XI.[The Anarchist]84
XII.[Moses Ichthyophagus]94
XIII.[Griswold Emergent]110
XIV.[Philistia]116
XV.[The Goths and Vandals]126
XVI.[Good Samaritans]143
XVII.[Gropings]154
XVIII.[The Zweibund]165
XIX.[Loss and Gain]175
XX.[The Convalescent]187
XXI.[Broffin's Equation]201
XXII.[In the Burglar-Proof]218
XXIII.[Converging Roads]234
XXIV.[The Forward Light]248
XXV.[The Bridge of Jehennam]260
XXVI.[Pitfalls]274
XXVII.[In the Shadows]286
XXVIII.[Broken Links]295
XXIX.[All That a Man Hath]312
XXX.[The Valley of Dry Bones]332
XXXI.[Narrowing Walls]347
XXXII.[The Lion's Share]354
XXXIII.[Gates of Brass]368
XXXIV.[The Abyss]375
XXXV.[Margery's Answer]384
XXXVI.[The Gray Wolf]396
XXXVII.[The Quality of Mercy]408
XXXVIII.[The Pendulum-Swing]416
XXXIX.[Dust and Ashes]428
XL.[Apples of Istakhar]438
XLI.[The Desert and the Sown]448

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