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BOATSWAIN JOE Tom Dennis sat on a printer's stool beside a very dirty window which dimly illumined his figure, and stared at the gloom surrounding him. His rawboned face was dejected; his angul…
NEWS FROM NOWHERE Florence Hathaway was extremely astonished when, upon Sunday morning, she heard the voice of Tom Dennis on the telephone, and received a request to join him down-town for noon dinn…
LAYING A COURSE When the dinner was over, Boatswain Joe was in no haste to leave the restaurant; but he returned to the table and ordered a drink, having seen Dennis and Florence Hathaway depart. As…
THE SQUARE SUITCASE Tom Dennis, in the meantime, was making some discoveries. In the course of the afternoon he dropped in at his old newspaper office with the object of seeing the boys and trying …
THE "PELICAN" The brigantine-rigged Pelican was of but a hundred and fifty tons burden; yet her royal yard stood athwart the sky nearly ninety feet above the deck. She was not a pretty sh…
OUTWARD BOUND Upon the morning after the Pelican stood out of the Lion's Gate and headed southward, she was outside Cape Flattery and standing off to the northwest, bucking and pitching and le…
JERRY TELLS SOMETHING As in a daze, Tom Dennis listened while Pontifex went on to explain that Miles Hathaway alone knew where the Simpson lay; that thus far they had been unable to find a way to e…
MILES HATHAWAY TALKS Close upon noon the following day, moon-faced Jerry was heading for the after cabins, broom in hand, with intent to sweep up the mess cabin. Manuel Mendez, who had the deck, pla…
UNALASKA BAY Unalaska—at last! The tortuous, narrow and even precipitous passage, winding nearly two miles amid the rocks, lay behind, and now the good ship Pelican was swinging to her anchor in f…
THE WRECK From Unalaska to the position indicated upon the chart as the resting-place of the John Simpson was, in the rough, six hundred knots—nearly seven hundred miles. When Tom Dennis wakened, …
