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Title: Isle o' Dreams

Author: Frederick F. Moore

Illustrator: Ralph Pallen Coleman

Release Date: June 16, 2008 [EBook #25813]

Language: English

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ISLE O' DREAMS

[Illustration: _"Come up closer so I can look into the boat,"
commanded Trask_]

ISLE O' DREAMS

BY

FREDERICK F. MOORE

_Author of_
_"The Devil's Admiral," "The Sailor Girl," Etc._

[Illustration]

FRONTISPIECE
BY
RALPH PALLEN COLEMAN

Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

To
MARJORIE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Robert Trask Arrives in Manila from Amoy 3

II. Dinshaw Tells of His Island 19

III. Captain Dinshaw Pulls a Long Bow 33

IV. Captain Jarrow Goes Cruising in Strange Waters 50

V. Jarrow Does and Says Queer Things 64

VI. Mr. Peth Is Particular About Where He Sleeps 74

VII. Trask Has a Talk With Doc Bird 92

VIII. How the Schooner Arrived off the Island 104

IX. Trask Undertakes a Private Investigation 124

X. Captain Jarrow Admits He Is Suspicious of Peth 144

XI. Mr. Peth Does Most