The Pursuit of the House-Boat

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Bangs John Kendrick. The Pursuit of the House-Boat

CHAPTER I: THE ASSOCIATED SHADES TAKE ACTION

CHAPTER II: THE STRANGER UNRAVELS A MYSTERY AND REVEALS HIMSELF

CHAPTER III: THE SEARCH-PARTY IS ORGANIZED

CHAPTER IV: ON BOARD THE HOUSE-BOAT

CHAPTER V: A CONFERENCE ON DECK

CHAPTER VI: A CONFERENCE BELOW-STAIRS

CHAPTER VII: THE "GEHENNA" IS CHARTERED

CHAPTER VIII: ON BOARD THE "GEHENNA"

CHAPTER IX: CAPTAIN KIDD MEETS WITH AN OBSTACLE

CHAPTER X: A WARNING ACCEPTED

CHAPTER XI: MAROONED

CHAPTER XII: THE ESCAPE AND THE END

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"I have made a hobby of the study of cigar ends," said the stranger, as the Associated Shades settled back to hear his account of himself. "From my earliest youth, when I used surreptitiously to remove the unsmoked ends of my father's cigars and break them up, and, in hiding, smoke them in an old clay pipe which I had presented to me by an ancient sea-captain of my acquaintance, I have been interested in tobacco in all forms, even including these self-same despised unsmoked ends; for they convey to my mind messages, sentiments, farces, comedies, and tragedies which to your minds would never become manifest through their agency."

The company drew closer together and formed themselves in a more compact mass about the speaker. It was evident that they were beginning to feel an unusual interest in this extraordinary person, who had come among them unheralded and unknown. Even Shylock stopped calculating percentages for an instant to listen.

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"My visitor laughed, and repeated what he had said about my being a wonderful man.

"'And the dents which my son made cutting his teeth?' he added.

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