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H. A. Wise. Captain Brand of the "Centipede"
Captain Brand of the "Centipede"
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
PART I
CHAPTER I. SPREADING THE STRANDS
CHAPTER II. CALM
CHAPTER III. HIGH NOON
CHAPTER IV. SUNSET
CHAPTER V. DARKNESS
CHAPTER VI. DANGER
CHAPTER VII. THE MEETING AND MOURNING
CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN BRAND AT HOME
CHAPTER IX. CAPTAIN AND MATE
CHAPTER X. AN OLD SPANIARD WITH ONE EYE
CHAPTER XI. CONVERSATION IN POCKETS AND SLEEVES
CHAPTER XII. DOCTOR AND PRIEST
CHAPTER XIII. A MANLY FANDANGO
CHAPTER XIV. A PIRATES’ DINNER
CHAPTER XV. DROWNING A MOTHER TO MURDER A DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XVI. NUPTIALS OF THE GIRL WITH DARK EYES
CHAPTER XVII. DOOM OF DOÑA LUCIA
CHAPTER XVIII. END OF THE BANQUET
CHAPTER XIX. FANDANGO ON ONE LEG
CHAPTER XX. BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXI. TREASURE
CHAPTER XXII. PLEASURE
CHAPTER XXIII. WORK
CHAPTER XXIV. CAUGHT IN A NET
CHAPTER XXV. THE MOUSE THAT GNAWED THE NET
CHAPTER XXVI. THE HURRICANE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE VIRGIN MARY
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ARK THAT JACK BUILT
PART II
CHAPTER XXIX. LAYING UP THE STRANDS
CHAPTER XXX. OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXXI. THE COMMANDER OF THE “ROSALIE.”
CHAPTER XXXII. A SPLICE PARTED
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE BLUE PENNANT IN THE CABIN
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DEVIL TO PAY
CHAPTER XXXV. AND THE PITCH HOT
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE CHASE
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE WRECK OF THE “CENTIPEDE.”
CHAPTER XXXVIII. VULTURES AND SHARKS
CHAPTER XXXIX. ESCONDIDO
CHAPTER XL. PAUL DARCANTEL
CHAPTER XLI. INSTINCT AND WONDER
CHAPTER XLII. TRUTH AND TERROR
CHAPTER XLIII. PEACE AND LOVE
CHAPTER XLIV. SNUFF OUT OF A DIAMOND BOX
CHAPTER XLV. LILIES AND SEA-WEED
CHAPTER XLVI. PARTING
CHAPTER XLVII. DEVOTION
CHAPTER XLVIII. ALL ALIVE AGAIN
CHAPTER XLIX. THE ROPE LAID UP
CHAPTER L. ON A BED OF THORNS
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H. A. Wise
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Not a breath from the lungs of Æolus. The sun went down like a globe of fire; but just as it touched the horizon it flattened out into an oval disk, and, sinking behind a dead, slate-colored cloud, shot up half a dozen broad rose and purple bands, expanding as they mounted heavenward, and then fading away in pearly-tinted hues in the softening twilight until it mingled in the light of the half moon nearly at the zenith. There lay the island, too, now all clear again, with the blue tops of the mountains marked in pure distinct outline, and falling away from peak to peak on either hand, till the sea flashed up in sluggish creamy foam at the base. The man-of-war birds came floating in from seaward, high up, like black musquitoes, with their pointed wings wide spread and heading toward the land, but now with never a quiver to their silent pinions. A school of porpoises, too, broke water from the opposite direction, and, crossing and recrossing each other’s track, came leaping and puffing over the gentle swells until they struck the brig’s wake, when they wheeled around her bows, dashed off on a swift visit to the corvette, and then, closing up in watery phalanx, went gamboling, leaping, and breaking water again to windward. Presently, along the eastern horizon, the banks of clouds, which had been lying dead and motionless all the sultry day, seemed to be imbued with life, and, separating in their fleecy masses, mounted up above the sea, and soon spread out, like a lady’s fan, in all directions.
“Ho! ho!” shouted Captain Blunt, clapping his hands, “what said I, Madame Rosalie, when we saw the sun setting up his lee backstays a while ago? A breeze, eh? Come, Mr. Binks, be wide awake! We shall be bowling off the knots before the watch is out.”
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