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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]