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Title: As We Sweep Through The Deep

Author: Gordon Stables

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #25995]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "_On the deck of a French man-o'-war._"
Page 186.]

AS WE SWEEP
THROUGH THE DEEP

[Illustration: "_The figure glided towards him._"
Page 66.]

T. NELSON AND SONS
London, Edinburgh, and New York

AS WE
SWEEP THROUGH
THE DEEP

_A Story of the Stirring Times of Old_

BY
DR. GORDON-STABLES, R.N.,
_Author of "Hearts of Oak," &c._

T. NELSON AND SONS
_London, Edinburgh, and New York_
1894

CONTENTS.

I. POOR JACK, 9
II. "HE NEVER SAID HE LOVED ME," 20
III. AN INTERRUPTED PROPOSAL, 27
IV. THE BATTLE AND THE BREEZE, 33
V. "NOW THIS GOOD BLADE SHALL BE MY BRIDE," 43
VI. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE, 54
VII. "WENT GLIDING AWAY LIKE A BEAUTIFUL GHOST," 61
VIII. ON BOARD THE SAUCY "TONNERAIRE," 70
IX. "A SPLENDID NIGHT'S WORK, TOM!" 78
X. IN THE MOON'S BRIGHT WAKE, 87
XI. THE PHANTOM FRENCHMAN, 94
XII. A BATTLE BY NIGHT, 103
XIII. A HAPPY SHIP, 111
XIV. MUTINY, 123
XV. BEFORE CADIZ, 129
XVI. JACK AND THE MUTINEERS, 138
XVII. IN A FOOL'S PARADISE,