LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[ "Mr. Harper was completely out of his depth."] . . . . . . Frontispiece
[ "A nigger with rings in his ears came forward with a light." ]
[ "'I was a bit on last night,' she said with well assumed humility." ]
[ "'Mary,' he said, 'do you remember your words eleven months ago?'" ]
THE SAILOR
BOOK I
GESTATION
I