Contents

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[ PART I.] THE MAN AND THE BRIG
[ PART II.] THE SHORE OF REFUGE
[ PART III. ] THE CAPTURE
[ PART IV.] THE GIFT OF THE SHALLOWS
[ PART V.] THE POINT OF HONOUR AND THE POINT OF PASSION
[ PART VI.] THE CLAIM OF LIFE AND THE TOLL OF DEATH

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Of the three long novels of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one that had to wait the longest for the good pleasure of the Fates. I am betraying no secret when I state here that it had to wait precisely for twenty years. I laid it aside at the end of the summer of 1898 and it was about the end of the summer of 1918 that I took it up again with the firm determination to see the end of it and helped by the sudden feeling that I might be equal to the task.