XVII. A DRIVE FOR MARKET 144
XVIII. A BRUSH WITH THE YACHTING FLEET 153
XIX. MINNIE ARKELL AGAIN 159
XX. THE SKIPPER PUTS FOR HOME 172
XXI. SEINERS' WORK 175
XXII. ON THE CAPE SHORE 184
XXIII. DRESSING DOWN 193
XXIV. THE WITHROW OUTSAILS THE DUNCAN 202
XXV. TROUBLE WITH THE DOMINION CUTTERS 206
XXVI. THE GOSSIP IN GLOUCESTER 211
XXVII. IN CLANCY'S BOARDING-HOUSE 217
XXVIII. IN THE ARKELL KITCHEN 220
XXIX. MAURICE BLAKE COMES HOME 230
XXX. THE MORNING OF THE RACE 235
XXXI. THE START OF THE RACE 243
XXXII. O'DONNELL CARRIES AWAY BOTH MASTS 250
XXXIII. THE ABLE JOHNNIE DUNCAN 257
XXXIV. MINNIE ARKELL ONCE MORE 265
XXXV. CLANCY LAYS DOWN THE LAW 271
XXXVI. MAURICE BLAKE IS RECALLED 281
XXXVII. THE GIRL IN CANSO 289
XXXVIII. THE DUNCAN GOES TO THE WEST'ARD 297
XXXIX. THE HEART OF CLANCY 309

THE SEINERS

THE SEINERS

I

THE NEW VESSEL OF WITHROW'S

It was only a few days before this that the new vessel of Mr.
Withrow's, built by him, as everybody supposed, for Maurice Blake, had
been towed around from Essex, and I remember how Maurice stood on the
dock that afternoon and looked her over.

There was not a bolt or a plank or a seam in her whole hull, not a
square inch inside or out, that he had not been over half a dozen
times while she was on the stocks; but now he had to look her over
again, and as he looked his eyes took on a shine. She had been
designed by a man famous the world over, and was intended to beat
anything that ever sailed past Eastern Point.

She certainly was a great-looking model of a vessel, and "If she only
sails and handles half so well as she looks, she'll do for