Max Pemberton

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE
MCMV. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

First Edition 1893.
Reprinted 1894, March and July 1895, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1905. Popular Edition July 1899.
Reprinted August, September and October 1899, February and July 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904. Pocket Edition August, 1905.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Perfect Fool asks a Favour [ 1]
II. I Meet Captain Black [ 13]
III. "Four-Eyes" delivers a Message [ 31]
IV. A Strange Sight on the Sea [ 43]
V. The Writing of Martin Hall [ 59]
VI. I Engage a Second Mate [ 92]
VII. The Beginning of the Great Pursuit [ 101]
VIII. I Dream of Paolo [ 114]
IX. I Fall in with the Nameless Ship [ 123]
X. The Spread of the Terror [ 140]
XI. The Ship in the Black Cloak [ 153]
XII. The Drinking Hole in the Bowery [ 166]
XIII. Astern of the "Labrador" [ 180]
XIV. A Cabin in Scarlet [ 193]
XV. The Prison of Steel [ 198]
XVI. Northward Ho! [ 205]
XVII. One Shall Live [ 218]
XVIII. The Den of Death [ 228]
XIX. The Murders in the Cove [ 239]
XX. I Quit Ice-Haven [ 262]
XXI. To the Land of Man [ 274]
XXII. The Robbery of the "Bellonic" [ 285]
XXIII. I Go to London [ 298]
XXIV. The Shadow on the Sea [ 308]
XXV. The Dumb Man Speaks [ 329]
XXVI. A Page in Black's Life [ 345]
XXVII. I Fall to Wondering [ 371]

THE IRON PIRATE.

A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea.

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