Thrice Armed
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Bindloss Harold. Thrice Armed
CHAPTER I. JIMMY RENOUNCES HIS CAREER
CHAPTER II. TO WINDWARD
CHAPTER III. JIMMY MAKES FRIENDS
CHAPTER IV. IN THE TOILS
CHAPTER V. VALENTINE'S PAID HAND
CHAPTER VI. A VISION OF THE SEA
CHAPTER VII. BLOWN OFF
CHAPTER VIII. JIMMY TAKES COMMAND
CHAPTER IX. MERRIL TIGHTENS THE SCREW
CHAPTER X. ELEANOR WHEELOCK
CHAPTER XI. AT AUCTION
CHAPTER XII. THE "SHASTA" SHIPPING COMPANY
CHAPTER XIII. THE "SHASTA" GOES TO SEA
CHAPTER XIV. IN DISTRESS
CHAPTER XV. ELEANOR'S BITTERNESS
CHAPTER XVI. UNDER RESTRAINT
CHAPTER XVII. THE RANCHER'S ANSWER
CHAPTER XVIII. ELEANOR SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER XIX. WOOD PULP
CHAPTER XX. ANTHEA MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXI. JIMMY GROWS RESTLESS
CHAPTER XXII. ASHORE
CHAPTER XXIII. ANTHEA GROWS ANXIOUS
CHAPTER XXIV. JORDAN KEEPS HIS PROMISE
CHAPTER XXV. AN UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XXVI. ELEANOR HOLDS THE CLUE
CHAPTER XXVII. JORDAN'S SCHEME
CHAPTER XXVIII. DISABLED ENGINES
CHAPTER XXIX. UNDER COMPULSION
CHAPTER XXX. AN EYE FOR AN EYE
CHAPTER XXXI. MERRIL CAPITULATES
CHAPTER XXXII. ELEANOR RELENTS
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Two days had slipped away since Jimmy joined the Tyee, when, with her dew-wet canvas slatting at every roll, she crept out from the narrow waters into the Pacific. Astern of her the Olympians towered high above the forests of Washington, a great serrated ridge of frosted silver that cut coldly white against the blue of the morning sky. To starboard the shore of Vancouver Island rose, a faint blur of misty pines, and ahead the sea was dimmed by drifting vapors out of which the long swell swung glassily. At times a wandering zephyr crisped it with a darker smear, and the Tyee crawled ahead a little. Then she stopped again, heaving her bows high out of the oily sea, while everything in her banged and rattled.
There was nothing that any one on board her could do but wait for the breeze and wonder whether it would come from the right direction. Jimmy sat on the deckhouse with his pipe in his hand, and Tom Wheelock, whose face looked careworn in the early light and showed pasty gray patches amidst its bronze, glanced westward a trifle anxiously as he held the jerking wheel.
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"Well," he said faintly, "I guess we've saved that contract. You weathered the head?"
"We did," answered Prescott. "Jimmy grabbed the wheel in time. Seems to me we had 'bout twenty fathoms to spare. Feel as if you'd broke anything inside you?"
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