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H. De Vere Stacpoole. Vanderdecken
Vanderdecken
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
CHAPTER II. THE PROPOSITION
CHAPTER III. THE PLAN
CHAPTER IV. TYREBUCK
CHAPTER V. JAKE
CHAPTER VI. JOE BARRETT
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRING OF JAKE
CHAPTER VIII. PUBLICITY
CHAPTER IX. CANDON
CHAPTER X. THE RED BEARDED ONE
CHAPTER XI. NIGHT
CHAPTER XII. OUT
CHAPTER XIII. THE BAY OF WHALES
CHAPTER XIV. ST. NICOLAS
CHAPTER XV. WHAT THE CHINKS WERE DOING
CHAPTER XVI. EVIDENCE OF CONTRABAND
CHAPTER XVII. THE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ATTACK
CHAPTER XIX. A SEA FIGHT
CHAPTER XX. DOWN BELOW
CHAPTER XXI. TOMMIE
CHAPTER XXII. A PROBLEM IN PSYCHOLOGY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE NEW CHUM
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FREIGHTER
CHAPTER XXV. THEY TURN THE CORNER
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BAY OF WHALES
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXVIII. HANK
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SAND
CHAPTER XXX. STRANGERS ON THE BEACH
CHAPTER XXXI “TOMMIE’S GONE!”
CHAPTER XXXII. THE RETURN OF CANDON
CHAPTER XXXIII. GONE!
CHAPTER XXXIV. JAKE
CHAPTER XXXV. SANTANDER ROCK
CHAPTER XXXVI “CANDON”
CHAPTER XXXVII. JAKE IS FIRED AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE ANCHOR TAKES THE MUD
CHAPTER XXXIX. VANDERDECKEN
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H. De Vere Stacpoole
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Oh, I was just thinking,” said Hank.
They were in the building now. Hank gave a name to the elevator man, and they were whisked up to the fourth floor. Here, entering an office filled with the clatter of typewriters, Hank asked for Mr. Tyrebuck, and in a minute or two they were shown into a room where a man sat facing them at a desk table, a heavy-jowled, bulging-eyed, fresh-coloured man, with an unlighted cigar between his lips. He had just finished with a stenographer, but she was still standing waiting with a sheaf of notes in her hand, whilst Tyrebuck, as if engaged with some after-thought, sat, the cigar pushing out on his under lip and his prominent eyes staring straight at the newcomers without seeing them. He seemed to be looking at something a thousand miles away. He was. He was looking at Chicago and the dial of the Wheat Pit. Then he came to.
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