By REX BEACH
Author of "THE AUCTION BLOCK" "RAINBOW'S END" "THE SPOILERS" Etc.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. IN WHICH THE TIDE TAKES A HAND
II. HOW A GIRL APPEARED OUT OF THE NIGHT
III. THE IRISH PRINCE
IV. HOW A JOURNEY ENDED AT HOPE
V. WHEREIN WE SEE CURTIS GORDON AND OTHERS
VI. THE DREAMER
VII. THE DREAM
VIII. IN WHICH WE COME TO OMAR
IX. WHEREIN GORDON SHOWS HIS TEETH
X. IN WHICH THE DOCTOR SHOWS HIS WIT
XI. THE TWO SIDES OF ELIZA VIOLET APPLETON
XII. HOW GORDON FAILED IN HIS CUNNING
XIII. WE JOURNEY TO A PLACE OF MANY WONDERS
XIV. HOW THE TRUTH CAME TO ELIZA
XV. THE BATTLE OF GORDON'S CROSSING
XVI. THE FRUIT OF THE TEMPEST
XVII. HOW THE PRINCE BECAME A MAN
XVIII. HOW THE MAN BECAME A PRINCE AGAIN
XIX. MISS APPLETON MAKES A SACRIFICE
XX. HOW GORDON CHANGED HIS ATTACK
XXI. DAN APPLETON SLIPS THE LEASH
XXII. HOW THE HAZARD WAS PLAYED
XXIII. A NEW CRISIS
XXIV. GORDON'S FALL
XXV. PREPARATIONS
XXVI. THE RACE
XXVII. HOW A DREAM CAME TRUE
The ship stole through the darkness with extremest caution, feeling herway past bay and promontory. Around her was none of that phosphorescentglow which lies above the open ocean, even on the darkest night, forthe mountains ran down to the channel on either side. In places theyoverhung, and where they lay upturned against the dim sky it could beseen that they were mantled with heavy timber. All day long theNEBRASKA had made her way through an endless succession of straits andsounds, now squeezing through an inlet so narrow that the somber sprucetrees seemed to be within a short stone's-throw, again plowing acrosssome open reach where the pulse of the north Pacific could be felt. Outthrough the openings to seaward stretched the restless ocean, on acrossuncounted leagues, to Saghalien and the rim of Russia's prison-yard.
Always near at hand was the deep green of the Canadian forests, denser,darker than a tropic jungle, for this was the land of "plenty waters."The hillsides were carpeted knee-deep with moss, wet to saturation. Outof every gulch came a brawling stream whipped to milk-white frenzy;snow lay heavy upon the higher levels, while now and then from fartherinland p