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Title: A Maid of the Silver Sea

Author: John Oxenham

Release Date: January 29, 2005 [eBook #14832]

Language: English

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A MAID OF THE SILVER SEA

by

JOHN OXENHAM

With Frontispiece in Colour by Harold Copping

Hodder and Stoughton Warwick Square, London, E.C.

TO
MY FRIEND
EDWARD BAKER
OF LA CHAUMIERE, SARK

ON WHOSE MOST HOSPITABLE AND SUPREMELY
COMFORTABLE VERANDAH, LOOKING OUT
TO THE FAIR COAST OF FRANCE, THIS
STORY WAS PARTLY WRITTEN, I
INSCRIBE THE SAME IN REMEMBRANCE
OF MANY
DELIGHTFUL DAYS
TOGETHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
HOW TWO LAY IN A CLEFT

CHAPTER II
HOW NANCE CAME TO BE HERSELF

CHAPTER III
HOW THE NEW MINE CAPTAIN CAME

CHAPTER IV
HOW GARD MADE NEW ACQUAINTANCES

CHAPTER V
HOW NANCE SHONE THROUGH HER MODEST VEILING

CHAPTER VI
HOW GRANNIE SCHEMED SCHEMES

CHAPTER VII
HOW GARD FOUGHT GALES AND TOM

CHAPTER VIII
HOW TOM WANTED TO BUT DIDN'T DARE

CHAPTER IX
HOW OLD TOM FOUND THE SILVER HEART

CHAPTER X
HOW YOUNG TOM FOUND HIS MATCH

CHAPTER XI
HOW GARD DREW NEARER TO HIS HEART'S DESIRE

CHAPTER XII
HOW NANCE CAME UP THE MAIN SHAFT WITHOUT GOING DOWN IT

CHAPTER XIII
HOW GARD REFUSED AN OFFER AND MADE AN ENEMY

CHAPTER XIV
HOW THEY WENT THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF THE NARROW WAY

CHAPTER XV
HOW TWO FELL OUT

CHAPTER XVI
HOW ONE FELL OVER

CHAPTER XVII
HOW TOM WENT TO SCHOOL FOR THE LAST TIME

CHAPTER XVIII
HOW PETER'S DIPLOMACY CAME TO NOUGHT

CHAPTER XIX
HOW THE SARK MEN FELT ABOUT IT

CHAPTER XX
HOW SARK CRAVED BLOOD FOR BLOOD

CHAPTER XXI
HOW LOVE TOOK LOVE TO SANCTUARY

CHAPTER XXII
HOW THE STARS SANG O