The Sea Wolves
"THE MOON FLOODING PICTURESQUELY UPON THE WILDNESS OF THE BAY" (p. 101)
SEA WOLVES
BY
MAX PEMBERTON
AUTHOR OF "THE IRON PIRATE," "IMPREGNABLE
CITY," "GIANT'S GATE," ETC ETC.
With a Frontispiece by Fred T. Jane and
Eight Illustrations by Gordon Browne
CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE MCMVI
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
To
MY FRIEND
CLEMENT KING SHORTER
I INSCRIBE THIS STORY WITH DEEP
REGARD
AUTHOR'S NOTE
It may not be without interest here to recall the fact that tradition tells to-day of a woman in Southern Europe who takes with her to many cities the reputation of a wrecker. Nor is the scene of the work, which gossip ascribes to her, removed by many leagues from that shore upon which some of the happenings in this book are laid. The account of the means by which bullion is shipped to the Continent by two, at least, of our greater financial houses is, I believe, accurate in all its details. I am much indebted to one who has recently returned from Russia on such a business as I have here ventured to describe for many of the particulars incorporated in the story.
Contents
- I. THE WITCH-FINDER
- II. THE RECORDER INTRUDES
- III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS"
- IV. THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE TUG "ADMIRAL"
- V. THE THIRD DAY AFTER
- VI. LIGHT—BUT NOT OF DAWN
- VII. "A TEMPEST DROPPING FIRE"
- VIII. SOUTH FOR CORUNNA
- IX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FLIGHT
- X. INTO THE UNKNOWN HAVEN
- XI. ON THE FIELD Of THE AFTER-MATH
- XII. THE FIRST OF THE SPANIARDS
- XIII. THE COVE OF BRANCHES
- XIV. TO THE CREEK AGAIN
- XV. KENNER AGREES
- XVI. GOLD PROM THE SEA
- XVII. THE FIGHT IN THE CABIN
- XVIII. SEA-WOLVES AT WORK
- XIX. THE SECOND WRECKING
- XX. THE MAN BY THE DOOR
- XXI. FLIGHT TO THE SEA
- XXII. THE HALL OF THE FOUNTAINS
- XXIII. A WARNING IN THE FLESH
- XXIV. BEACONS ON THE HEIGHTS
- XXV. THE SECOND PERIL OF THE CREEK
- XXVI. A STRANGE CRY IN THE HILLS
- XXVII. IN THE VALLEY OF SILENCE
- XXVIII. THE HARBOUR OF THE POOL
- XXIX. MATTERS OF HISTORY
- XXX. THE END OF THE RECORD
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