ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE "And you know a heap too much" Frontispiece FACING PAGE A schooner comporting herself in a manner uncommon on the Pacific 14 A man who was a bit of a mechanic was set to work to open the chest 30 "Where we goin'?" "I brefer not to say". 60 Slowly the man defined himself as a shape takes form in a fog 74 "The spirit of the wild beast, cowed but snarling still" 94 "These sheep had become as wild as deer" 136 "Drop it, you fool!" 142 "I jerked out the short-barrelled Colt and turned it loose in their faces" 168 "You good fellowsh, ain't you?" 172 The firing now became miscellaneous. No one paid any attention to any one else 186 With a strangled cry the sailor cast the shirt from him 222 The finding of the two slabs 236 "Sorry not to have met you at the door," he said courteously 250 "It was my duty to follow on and drag him away when he fell unconscious" 266 He floated the model in the tub 284
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