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Title: Edward Barry
South Sea Pearler

Author: Louis Becke

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EDWARD BARRY

(South Sea Pearler)

by

LOUIS BECKE

[Frontispiece: Barry lifted her in his arms and carried her down to the
boat.]

T. Nelson & Sons
London and Edinburgh
Paris: 189, rue Saint-Jacques
Leipzig: 35-37 Koenigstrasse
1914

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. "EDWARD BARRY--'DEAD BROKE'"
II. THE MAYNARDS
III. THE BRIG _MAHINA_
IV. MR. BILLY WARNER OF PONAPE
V. VELO, THE SAMOAN, PROPHESIES.
VI. IN ARRECIFOS LAGOON
VII. ALICE TRACEY
VIII. MRS. TRACEY TELLS HER STRANGE STORY
IX. "ALLA GOODA COMRADE"
X. A REPENTANCE
XI. CAPTAIN RAWLINGS PROPOSES "A LITTLE CELEBRATION"
XII. BARRY AND VELO DISCOURSE ON MARRIAGE
XIII. "THE LITTLE CELEBRATION COMES OFF"
XIV. BARRY HOISTS THE FLAG OF ENGLAND
XV. FAREWELL TO ARRECIFOS
XVI. EXIT RAWLINGS AND THE GREEK
XVII. BARRY RECEIVES A "STIFFENER"
XVIII. ON BOARD THE NEW BARQUE

EDWARD BARRY.

CHAPTER I.

"EDWARD BARRY--'DEAD BROKE.'"

A wild, blustering day in Sydney, the Queen City of the Southern Seas.
Since early morn a keen, cutting, sleet-laden westerly gale had been
blowing, rattling and shaking the windows of the houses in the higher
and more exposed portions of the town, and churning the blue waters of
the harbour into a white seethe of angry foam as it swept outwards to
the wide Pacific.

In one of the little bays, situated between Miller's Point and Dawe's
Battery, and overlooked by the old-time Fort Phillip on Observatory
Hill, were a number of vessels, some a