By
T. Jenkins Hains
Author of “The Black Barque,” “The Windjammers,”
etc.
With Six Illustrations by
H. C. Edwards



Boston: L. C. PAGE &
COMPANY (Incorporated) Mdccccvi

Copyright, 1906
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
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All rights reserved
First Impression, April, 1906
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U.S.A.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
[“I drew her to me and kissed her” (See page 236)][Frontispiece]
[“Miss Waters stood in the door of the after companionway”][60]
[“I found time to do some work upon the wheel gear”][141]
[“Gazing silently after us, adrift and alone”][197]
[“‘When I want you men to come aft here to help me, I’ll send for you’”][217]
[“I forced him backwards to the poop-rail”][253]