Colored Frontispiece. Cloth. $1.30 net
JOHN LANE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
THE
PEARL FISHERS
BY
H. DE VERE STACPOOLE
AUTHOR OF
"THE PRESENTATION," "THE BLUE
LAGOON," Etc.
NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
∵ ∵ ∵ MCMXV ∵ ∵ ∵
Copyright, 1915
By STREET & SMITH
Copyright, 1915
By JOHN LANE COMPANY
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Alone | [9] |
| II. | The Island | [16] |
| III. | The Secret of the Lagoon | [29] |
| IV. | Schumer's Story | [37] |
| V. | Dredging | [44] |
| VI. | Risk of War | [53] |
| VII. | The Black Pearl | [65] |
| VIII. | The Last of the Wreck | [69] |
| IX. | A Week's Work | [77] |
| X. | The Schooner | [79] |
| XI. | The Punishment | [100] |
| XII. | The Power of Schumer | [103] |
| XIII. | The House | [114] |
| XIV. | Mostly About Pearls | [118] |
| XV. | Plans | [127] |
| XVI. | Schumer Goes Away | [131] |
| XVII. | The First of the Two Pearls | [135] |
| XVIII. | The Vanishing of Isbel | [144] |
| XIX. | The Miracle | [152] |
| XX. | The Trouble with Sru | [158] |
| XXI. | Before the Attack | [164] |
| XXII. | The Great Fight | [179] |
| XXIII. | Daybreak | [191] |
| XXIV. | Hakluyt | [205] |
| XXV. | Ordered to Sydney | [209] |
| XXVI. | Good-By | [214] |
| XXVII. | Sydney | [218] |
| XXVIII. | Cardon | [232] |
| XXIX. | Peter Williams | [243] |
| XXX. | The Open Sea | [252] |
| XXXI. | The Island | [267] |
| XXXII. | Envoi | [301] |