A Story of the Sea.
BY
JAMES GRANT,
AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "FAIRER THAN A FAIRY," ETC.
In Three Volumes.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, W.C.
1876.
[All rights reserved.]
CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Mariquita Escudero
CHAPTER II.
The Crew of the "Hermione" Discontented
CHAPTER III.
Rose and Dr. Heriot
CHAPTER IV.
Man Overboard
CHAPTER V.
The Livid Face
CHAPTER VI.
What the Doctor overheard in the Forecastle Bunks
CHAPTER VII.
Measures for Defence Concerted
CHAPTER VIII.
The Sail to Windward
CHAPTER IX.
The Storm
CHAPTER X.
The Four Castaways
CHAPTER XI.
Captain Hawkshaw makes a Discovery to Leeward
CHAPTER XII.
Dr. Heriot's Patients
CHAPTER XIII.
Captain Hawkshaw's Troubles increase
CHAPTER XIV.
Hawkshaw turns Nurse
CHAPTER XV.
A Biter bitten
CHAPTER XVI.
Dread
CHAPTER XVII.
Unmasked
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Expulsion
CHAPTER XIX.
The Meeting
CHAPTER XX.
The Corpse-Licht
CHAPTER XXI.
Out of Scylla and into Charybdis
CHAPTER XXII.
Four Bells in the Dog-Watch
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Crisis at Last
CHAPTER XXIV.
How the Ship broached to
CHAPTER XXV.
The Cabin attacked
MORLEY ASHTON.
After the breathless calm of the past day, the heatof the cabin was intense. The lamp was trimmedand lit by the steward, but the skylight was stillkept open.
"Awfully hot, Morley, is it not?" said TomBarte