ss, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE

Part I
I. Spreading the Strands 5
II. Calm 7
III. High Noon 15
IV. Sunset 21
V. Darkness 24
VI. Danger 33
VII. The Meeting and Mourning 42
VIII. Captain Brand at Home 44
IX. Captain and Mate 53
X. An Old Spaniard with One Eye 61
XI. Conversation in Pockets and Sleeves 69
XII. Doctor and Priest 73
XIII. A Manly Fandango 79
XIV. A Pirates' Dinner 85
XV. Drowning a Mother to Murder a Daughter 92
XVI. Nuptials of the Girl with Dark Eyes 103
XVII. Doom of Dona Lucia 112
XVIII. End of the Banquet 119
XIX. Fandango on One Leg 122
XX. Business 133
XXI. Treasure 138
XXII. Pleasure 144
XXIII. Work 150
XXIV. Caught in a Net 154
XXV. The Mouse that Gnawed the Net 160
XXVI. The Hurricane 166
XXVII. The Virgin Mary 168
XXVIII. The Ark that Jack Built 173

Part II
XXIX. Laying Up the Strands 179
XXX. Old Friends 186
XXXI. The Commander of the "Rosali