CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I. We Get Interesting News]
[CHAPTER II. We Meet with A Serious Reverse]
[CHAPTER III. We Sail on a Different Quest]
[CHAPTER IV. We Pick up the Trail]
[CHAPTER V. We Gain an Ally]
[CHAPTER VI. We Break up the Voodoo Ceremonial]
[CHAPTER VII. A Distress Call Goes to the Pearl]
[CHAPTER VIII. The Voodoo Stronghold]
[CHAPTER IX. The Stampede]
[CHAPTER X. The Gold Trail Again]
[CHAPTER XI. At Hide and Seek with the Enemy]
[CHAPTER XII. In Captivity—The Message]
[CHAPTER XIII. Julian's Narrative—The Secret Message]
[CHAPTER XIV. Julian Continues the Narrative—Norris's Big Gun]
[CHAPTER XV. An Exchange of Prisons]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Escape]
[CHAPTER XVII. Julian's Story Again—The Search for the Lost Comrades]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Our Boat is Scuttled]
[CHAPTER XIX. We Steal a March on the Enemy]
[CHAPTER XX. The Mysterious Trail]
[CHAPTER XXI. We Seek in Vain for a Lost Trail; and Discover a Lone Monkey]
[CHAPTER XXII. The Isle in Crow Bay]
[CHAPTER XXIII. What the Water Hid]
[CHAPTER XXIV. In the Hidden Vale—A New Acquaintance]
[CHAPTER XXV. We Consort with a Pickpocket]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Doings on the Little Isle Again]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Gold-Mine]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. We Are Trapped—The Battle]
[CHAPTER XXIX. How the Enemy Perish, and the Monkey Discovers the Treasure]
[CHAPTER XXX. The Cache on the Isle]
[CHAPTER XXXI. We Run the Gauntlet—Home Bound]
THE VOODOO GOLD TRAIL
CHAPTER I
WE GET INTERESTING NEWS
It was on a tropic sea, and night, that I heard a little scrap of a tale that had in it that which was destined to preserve my life. The waning moon had not yet risen; the stars were all out, the Milky Way more than commonly near. The schooner's sails were barely drawing, and flapped idly at times. I leaned on the rail, listening to the purling of the sea against the vessel's side, and watching the phosphorescence where the water broke. The bell had just sounded a double stroke—two bells. Near by, the taciturn black fellow—who was our guide, and who alone (as shall appear) knew our course and destination—was in talk with Rufe, our black cook.