BUT BEFORE HE COULD UTTER ANOTHER WORD, THERE WAS
A TERRIFIC SHOCK.—Page 59.
THE
MOTOR RANGERS
ON BLUE WATER
Or
THE SECRET OF THE DERELICT
BY
MARVIN WEST
AUTHOR OF "THE MOTOR RANGERS' LOST MINE," "THE MOTOR
RANGERS THROUGH THE SIERRAS," ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911,
BY
HURST & COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. The Watcher of the Trail
II. Colonel Morello Charters a Schooner
III. Like Thieves in the Night
IV. Run Down
V. Nat in Dire Straits
VI. The Voice in the Dark
VII. A Desperate Plan
VIII. How it Worked Out
IX. Adrift in the Pacific
X. The Tigers of the Sea
XI. Tricked!
XII. A Menace of Old Ocean
XIII. Adrift
XIV. A Mysterious Craft
XV. A Face that Terrified
XVI. What Befell in the Fog
XVII. The "Island Queen's" Secret
XVIII. Lost on the Western Sea
XIX. The Island
XX. The Boys Encounter a Big Surprise
XXI. Attacked by Marquesans
XXII. A Strange Meeting
XXIII. Nat's Skyrocket Artillery
XXIV. The Last of the "Nettie Nelsen"
THE MOTOR RANGERS ON BLUE WATER
CHAPTER I.
THE WATCHER OF THE TRAIL.
A party of horsemen, riding in single file, wasmaking its way down the steep, rugged trailleading from the interior to Santa Inez. Althoughthey had not as yet glimpsed the little missiontown, which was their destination, the blue,sparkling glint of the Pacific had, for some time,been visible through the columnar trunks anddark foliage of the red woods.
The four persons composing the little cavalcadeseemed to be in the best of spirits as theirsure-footed cayuses am