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Hurricane Williams (1922)
by Gordon Young
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. Probably, first published in Adventure magazine, 1920. [# Hurricane Williams]

A bloodthirsty pirate story, specializing in murders and suicides.The Bookman, June 1922

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HURRICANE WILLIAMS


By
GORDON YOUNG


Author of
SAVAGES, WILD BLOOD, ETC.



INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright 1920
The Ridgway Company
COPYRIGHT 1922
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Printed in the United States of America


PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

To

REGINA

With Great Respect for My Good Luck Ever Since
Many Years Ago, in a Strange City, with Thirteen
Dollars and No Job, I Coaxed Her into Taking the
Name of a Man She Had Known But a Few Years.

CONTENTS

  1. chapterpage
  2. I The Ship With A Viking Name 1
  3. II A Woman, Red and Purple, Like Fire and Bruises 3
  4. III Convent Feet Touch Pagan Ground 14
  5. IV A Devil's Crew Boards the Black Dane's Ship 23
  6. V Sharp Knives Click in the Moonlight 33
  7. VI The Taking of the Mariana 49
  8. VII The Losing of the Mariana 84
  9. VIII Gossip and Blasphemy 110
  10. IX A Hard Man Swings, Wrists Up 119
  11. X A Fool Tickles the Nose Of Death 139
  12. XI Ha! Ha! Gin is the Color Of Water 161
  13. XII Calm—And a Storm Breaks 188
  14. XIII Mutiny 198
  15. XIV Death Rapes the Flame Woman 220
  16. XV A Virgin—and Crooked Dice 228
  17. XVI Seven Men Die from the Kiss of a Cutlas Edge 263
  18. XVII When Life Has Given Love— 276
  19. XVIII Up Out of the Sea 289
  20. XIX The Man Who Once Was Hanged 302
  21. XX The Shroud is Made, the Burial Service Read 316
  22. XXI They Go, as Shadows Vanish into Darkness

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