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Title: Doubloons--and the Girl

Author: John Maxwell Forbes

Release Date: March 6, 2010 [EBook #31528]

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DOUBLOONS--AND THE GIRL

BY

JOHN MAXWELL FORBES

INTERNATIONAL FICTION LIBRARY

CLEVELAND, O. ------ NEW YORK, N. Y.

MADE IN U. S. A.

Copyright, 1917, by

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ON THE BLIND SIDE OF CHANCE
II. TYKE GRIMSHAW AND HIS AFFAIRS
III. HARD HIT
IV. THE SHADOW OF ROMANCE
V. A SETBACK
VI. THE BROKEN CHEST
VII. A MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT
VIII. THE SCOURGES OF THE SEA
IX. GETTING DOWN TO "BRASS TACKS"
X. CAPRICIOUS FORTUNE
XI. A DREAM REALIZED
XII. A SATISFACTORY OUTLOOK
XIII. STORM SIGNALS
XIV. BEGINNING THE VOYAGE
XV. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER
XVI. GATHERING CLOUDS
XVII. THE STORM BREAKS
XVIII. A SEA COURT
XIX. FOREBODINGS
XX. THE EARTH TREMBLES
XXI. "IF I WAS SUPERSTITIOUS----"
XXII. BURIED ALIVE
XXIII. A DESPERATE SITUATION
XXIV. THE ALARM
XXV. THE LAKE OF FIRE
XXVI. HOPE DEFERRED
XXVII. THE GIANT AWAKES
XXVIII. BY FAVOR OF THE EARTHQUAKE
XXIX. MUTINY
XXX. THE FLAG OF TRUCE
XXXI. A DARING VENTURE
XXXII. THE BATTLE IN THE FORECASTLE
XXXIII. THE GHOST
XXXIV. THE BATTLE IS ON
XXXV. THE SURRENDER--CONCLUSION

DOUBLOONS--AND THE GIRL

CHAPTER I

ON THE BLIND SIDE OF CHANCE

Allen Drew, glancing carelessly about as he started for the shore-end
of the pier, suddenly saw the girl coming in his direction. From that
moment--dating from the shock of that first glimpse of her--the current
of his life was changed.

Women were rare enough down here on the East River docks; one of the
type of this gloriously beautiful girl seemed an impossibility--an
hallucination. Curiosity was not even blended wi