tc.

[Illustration]

Illustrations by
ARCHIE GUNN and CHARLES GRUNWALD

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1909,_
BY
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page
I 7
II 31
III 57
IV 66
V 84
VI 95
VII 113
VIII 125
IX 142
X 161
XI 184
XII 199
XIII 213
XIV 233
XV 247
XVI 256
XVII 276
XVIII 284
XIX 298
XX 305
XXI 314
XXII 334

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page
What right had he to accost her? _Frontispiece_ 282
It was all they could do to drag him on board 54
Never in his life had he beheld a woman so fair 147
"No--you're not! I'm going with you" 351

CHAPTER I.

In a dark, dirty, foul-smelling room back of a small ship-chandler's
store on West Street, four sailormen were seated at a table, drinking,
quarreling, cursing. The