harper & brothers,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS
Part I | ||
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Spreading the Strands | [5] |
| II. | Calm | [7] |
| III. | High Noon | [15] |
| IV. | Sunset | [21] |
| V. | Darkness | [24] |
| VI. | Danger | [33] |
| VII. | The Meeting and Mourning | [42] |
| VIII. | Captain Brand at Home | [44] |
| IX. | Captain and Mate | [53] |
| X. | An Old Spaniard with One Eye | [61] |
| XI. | Conversation in Pockets and Sleeves | [69] |
| XII. | Doctor and Priest | [73] |
| XIII. | A Manly Fandango | [79] |
| XIV. | A Pirates’ Dinner | [85] |
| XV. | Drowning a Mother to Murder a Daughter | [92] |
| XVI. | Nuptials of the Girl with Dark Eyes | [103] |
| XVII. | Doom of Doña Lucia | [112] |
| XVIII. | End of the Banquet | [119] |
| XIX. | Fandango on One Leg | [122] |
| XX. | Business | [133] |
| XXI. | Treasure | [138] |
| XXII. | Pleasure | [144] |
| XXIII. | Work | [150] |
| XXIV. | Caught in a Net | [154] |
| XXV. | The Mouse that Gnawed the Net | [160] |
| XXVI. | The Hurricane | [166] |
| XXVII. | The Virgin Mary | [168] |
| XXVIII. | The Ark that Jack Built | [173] |
Part II | ||
| XXIX. | Laying Up the Strands | [179] |
| XXX. | Old Friends | [186] |
| XXXI. | The Commander of the “Rosalie” | [193] |
| XXXII. | A Splice Parted | [198] |
| XXXIII. | The Blue Pennant in the Cabin | [201] |
| XXXIV. | The Devil to Pay | [203] |
| XXXV. | And the Pitch Hot | [208] |
| XXXVI. | The Chase | [214] |
| XXXVII. | The Wreck of the “Centipede” | [220] |
| XXXVIII. | Vultures and Sharks | [226] |
| XXXIX. | Escondido | [231] |
| XL. | Paul Darcantel | [236] |
| XLI. | Instinct and Wonder | [243] |
| XLII. | Truth and Terror | [247] |
| XLIII. | Peace and Love | [252] |
| XLIV. | Snuff out of a Diamond Box | [256] |
| XLV. | Lilies and Sea-weed | [262] |
| XLVI. | Parting | [266] |
| XLVII. | Devotion | [270] |
| XLVIII. | All Alive Again | [273] |
| XLIX. | The Rope Laid Up | [278] |
| L. | On a Bed of Thorns | [288] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| Captain Brand | [Frontispiece] |
| “When the Wind Comes from Good San Antonio” | [12] |
| The Pirates Boarding the Brig | [26] |
| The Night Chase | [38] |
| The Pirate Den | [47] |
| The “Panchita” | [50] |
| “He Touched the Bell Overhead as He Spoke” | [65] |
| A Pirates’ Dinner | [85] |
| The Pirate’s Prey | [94] |
| “A Supernatural Warning!” | [116] |
| Shriving a Sinner | [124] |
| “He Crept Forward on Hands and Knees” | [141] |
| “A Dull, Heavy, Booming Roar” | [156] |
| “See If You Can Not Slip That Pretty Silk Rope Over my Head” | [162] |
| Building the Boat | [174] |
| The United States Frigate “Monongahela” | [183] |
| “Queer Old Stick, That!” Said the Commodore | [188] |
| And the Pitch Hot | [208] |
| The Stern Chase | [217] |
| “His Right Arm Poised with Clenched Hand Aloft,” Etc. | [256] |
| The Old Water-Logged Launch | [280] |
| “Now Captain Brand Knew What Was Coming” | [294] |