CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [THE 'EARLY MORN' ]1
II. [HEADING SOUTH ]32
III. [A 'LONGSHORE QUARREL ]60
IV. [A SAILOR'S DEATH ]92
V. [THE END OF THE 'EARLY MORN' ]116
VI. [CAPTAIN JOPPA BUNTING ]145
VII. [ON BOARD 'THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD' ]177
VIII. [A CREW OF MALAYS ]210
IX. [BUNTING'S FORECASTLE FARE ]241

MY DANISH SWEETHEART


CHAPTER I.

THE 'EARLY MORN.'

I told my story, and the three fellows listened attentively. Their eyes glowed in the lamplight as they stared at me. The weak wind raised a pleasant buzzing noise at the cutwater, and the lugger stole in floating launches through the gloom over the long invisible heave of the Atlantic swell.

'Ah!' said the helmsman, when I had made an end, 'we heerd of that there Tintrenale lifeboat job when we was at Penzance. An' so you was her coxswain?'

'Were the people of the boat drowned?' cried I eagerly. 'Can you give me any news of them?'