The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket: or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir
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Hancock Harrie Irving. The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket: or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir
CHAPTER I – THE PAIR IN THE SEAT AHEAD
CHAPTER II – BOUNCER WAKES UP
CHAPTER III – THE LUCKIEST BOY IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER IV – SIGHTING THE “PIRATE”
CHAPTER V – A JOKE ON THE ENEMY
CHAPTER VI – TOM HAS A BAD QUARTER OF AN HOUR
CHAPTER VII – “THE QUICKEST WAY OF WALKING THE PLANK”
CHAPTER VIII – TOM DISCOVERS THE HEIR
CHAPTER IX – TED HURLS A THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER X – OVERHAULING THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER XI – WHERE THE WATER TRAIL ENDED
CHAPTER XII – JOB HAS HIS COURAGE TESTED
CHAPTER XIII – A CAPTURE IN RECORD TIME
CHAPTER XIV – HEADED FOR THE SUNKEN REEF
CHAPTER XV – IN THE TEETH OF DEATH
CHAPTER XVI – FOLLOWING UP THE CLUE
CHAPTER XVII – JOE PLAYS JUSTICE A SCURVY TRICK
CHAPTER XVIII – THE MESSAGE UNDER THE ROCK
CHAPTER XIX – THE SIGHT BEHIND THE ATTIC LIGHT
CHAPTER XX – BLIND MAN’S BUFF IN FEARFUL EARNEST
CHAPTER XXI – THE LAST DASH TO WIN
CHAPTER XXII – JED RUNS A NAVAL BOMBARDMENT
CHAPTER XXIII – SPYING ON THE FILIBUSTERS
CHAPTER XXIV – CONCLUSION
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While our two young motor boat enthusiastslie wrapped in the first soundslumber of the summer night, lulledinto unconsciousness by the soft lapping of thesalt water against the sides of the “Meteor,”let us take a brief glimpse at the events whichhad brought them here.
Readers of the preceding volume in this seriesare aware of how the Motor Boat Club came tobe organized. It now numbered fourteen members, any one of whom was fully qualified tohandle a motor boat expertly under any ordinarycircumstances.
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“We were thinking of a little trial trip first, sir, just to see how the craft will behave underway.”
“Good enough,” nodded the owner. “ButI’m aboard, so why can’t I go with you?”
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