Cruise of the Jasper B

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Cruise of the Jasper B (1916)
by Don Marquis

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After long service as a drudge in a newspaper office, Cleggett suddenly comes into a legacy of a half-million. He is not yet past his youth, and the world is all before him. He buys an old hulk which has long been stuck in the mud of a Long Island cove. His plan is to fit her out and sail whither he will in quest of adventure. But there turns out to be a proper mystery about the Jasper B. which presently involves Cleggett and his crew and various others in sufficiently thrilling adventures before they have had a chance to try their seamanship, and their luck at happenings, away from Long Island muck. The thing is done, I say, with a quaint yet unforced extravagance which reminds me of the Stockton touch—a later Rudder Grange, to make much of the analogy. —from "Some Stories of the Month" by H. W. Boynton in the Bookman, August 1916 (Full review in the Discussion page)

484770Cruise of the Jasper B1916Don Marquis

THE CRUISE OF
THE JASPER B.

BY
DON MARQUIS
AUTHOR OF "DANNY'S OWN STORY," ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1916

Copyright, 1916, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1916, by Street and Smith

Printed in the United States of America

TO

ALL THE COPYREADERS

ON ALL THE NEWSPAPERS

OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	A Bright Blade Leaps from a Rusty Scabbard	1
II.	The Room of Illusion	10
III.	A Schooner, a Skipper and a Skull	20
IV.	A Bad Man to Cross	36
V.	Beauty in Distress	50
VI.	Lady Agatha's Story	70
VII.	First Blood for Cleggett	85
VIII.	A Flame Leaps Out of the Dark	102
IX.	Mysteries Multiply	115
X.	In The Enemy's Camp	128
XI.	Repartee and Pistols	145
XII.	The Second Oblong Box	159
XIII.	The Soul of Logan Black	173
XIV.	Cleggett Stands by His Ship	183
XV.	Night, Tempest, Love and Battle	196
XVI.	Romance Regnant	200
XVII.	Miss Pringle Calls on Mr. Cleggett	201
XVIII.	The Man in the Blue Pajamas	210
XIX.	Two Great Men Meet	221
XX.	The Psychological Detective	231
XXI.	The Third Oblong Box Arrives	238
XXII.	Dancing on the Deck	257
XXIII.	Cutlasses	267
XXIV.	The Duel	280
XXV.	The Secret of the Vessel's Hold	294
XXVI.	A Dog Dies Game	300
XXVII.	Cleggett Accommodates the King	310

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