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Title: Godfrey Morgan
A Californian Mystery

Author: Jules Verne

Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23489]

Language: English

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GODFREY MORGAN

A CALIFORNIAN MYSTERY

BY

JULES VERNE

ILLUSTRATED

_AUTHOR'S COPYRIGHT EDITION_

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY, _Limited_.

[Illustration: "Going! Going!" _page 15_]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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In which the reader has the opportunity of buying an Island in
the Pacific Ocean 1

CHAPTER II.

How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at loggerheads
with J. R. Taskinar, of Stockton 11

CHAPTER III.

The conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with
a piano accompaniment 24

CHAPTER IV.

In which T. Artelett, otherwise Tartlet, is duly introduced
to the reader 35

CHAPTER V.

In which they prepare to go, and at the end of which they go
for good 43

CHAPTER VI.

In which the reader makes the acquaintance of a new personage 53

CHAPTER VII.

In which it will be seen that William W. Kolderup was probably
right in insuring his ship 62

CHAPTER VIII.

Which leads Godfrey to bitter reflections on the mania for
travelling 77

CHAPTER IX.

In which it is shown that Crusoes do not have everything as
they wish 91

CHAPTER X.

In which Godfrey does what any other shipwrecked man would
have done under the ci