CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME

CHAPTERPAGE
I. Miss Otway opens the Story[1]
II. Marie's Sweetheart[16]
III. The 'Lady Emma'[30]
IV. Marie begins her Voyage[57]
V. The Hidden Life of the Ship[85]
VI. A Strange Man on Board[112]
VII. A Race and a Roller[136]
VIII. A Hurricane[161]
IX. Dismasted[190]
X. The Jury-Mast[212]

HEART OF OAK

CHAPTER I MISS OTWAY OPENS THE STORY

I date the opening of this narrative, February 24, 1860.

I was in the drawing-room of my father's house on the afternoon of that day, awaiting the arrival of Captain Burke, of the ship 'Lady Emma,' and his wife, Mary Burke, who had nursed me and brought me up, and indeed been as a mother to me after my own mother's death in 1854; but she had left us to marry Captain Edward Burke, and had already made two voyages round the world with him, and was presently going a third.