Copyright, 1913, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


Published September, 1913


CONTENTS

Page
[ Sonnie-Boy's People]1
[ Tim Riley's Touch]51
[ In the Anchor Watch]95
[ Cross Courses]123
[ Leary of the "Ligonier"]167
[ How They Got the "Hattie Rennish"]199
[ Killorin's Caribbean Days]231
[ The Battle-Cruise of the "Svend Foyn"]261
[ The Last Passenger]285

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Look here, Sonnie-Boy. Here's a man says your papa is the greatest man ever was in his line" [Frontispiece]
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"And of course your brother is laying great plans to assure his future?"[6]
"That two-faced chairman of yours—he never tipped me off you could fight any way except with your hands." [90]
The Orion proved to us that she was faster off the wind than we were by rounding Cape Cod before us.[156]
It was Drislane she had, his head cuddled on her knees till the tug came and got us.[164]
"Just then one came right under her forefoot and another under her counter. And I looks back to the gunboat."[226]
The strangers out with revolvers, back my men into the fo'c's'le, and lock them in.[268]
'Twas me she walked home with. [276]