Doubloons—and the Girl
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Forbes John Maxwell. Doubloons—and the Girl
CHAPTER I. ON THE BLIND SIDE OF CHANCE
CHAPTER II. TYKE GRIMSHAW AND HIS AFFAIRS
CHAPTER III. HARD HIT
CHAPTER IV. THE SHADOWS OF ROMANCE
CHAPTER V. A SETBACK
CHAPTER VI. THE BROKEN CHEST
CHAPTER VII. A MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT
CHAPTER VIII. THE SCOURGES OF THE SEA
CHAPTER IX. GETTING DOWN TO "BRASS TACKS"
CHAPTER X. CAPRICIOUS FORTUNE
CHAPTER XI. A DREAM REALIZED
CHAPTER XII. A SATISFACTORY OUTLOOK
CHAPTER XIII. STORM SIGNALS
CHAPTER XIV. BEGINNING THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XV. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER
CHAPTER XVI. GATHERING CLOUDS
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORM BREAKS
CHAPTER XVIII. A SEA COURT
CHAPTER XIX. FOREBODINGS
CHAPTER XX. THE EARTH TREMBLES
CHAPTER XXI "IF I WAS SUPERSTITIOUS – "
CHAPTER XXII. BURIED ALIVE
CHAPTER XXIII. A DESPERATE SITUATION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ALARM
CHAPTER XXV. THE LAKE OF FIRE
CHAPTER XXVI. HOPE DEFERRED
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GIANT AWAKES
CHAPTER XXVIII. BY FAVOR OF THE EARTHQUAKE
CHAPTER XXIX. MUTINY
CHAPTER XXX. THE FLAG OF TRUCE
CHAPTER XXXI. A DARING VENTURE
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BATTLE IN THE FORECASTLE
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE GHOST
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE BATTLE IS ON
CHAPTER XXXV. THE SURRENDER – CONCLUSION
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"I beg your pardon," Drew said, bowing low, "but can I be of any further assistance?"
The girl looked up at him a little doubtfully, but what she saw in his frank brown eyes must have reassured her, for she spoke without hesitation.
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The profits of a notable whaling expedition from which he had returned with the tanks filled to bursting, barrels crowded on the deck, and the very scuppers running oil, together with a tidy little inheritance that fell to him about the same time, had enabled him to buy the chandlery shop from its former proprietor and settle down to spend the rest of his life ashore and yet in sight and scent of salt water.
How he had gained the name of "Tyke," by which everybody called him, nobody knew. He himself never volunteered to tell, and in all his bills and accounts used only the initial "T." Some of his employees favored Tyrus, others Titus. One in a wild flight of fancy suggested Ticonderoga. But the mystery remained unsolved, and, after all, as the checks that bore the scrawl, "T. Grimshaw," were promptly honored at the bank, it did not matter.
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