The Lost Heir
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Henty George Alfred. The Lost Heir
CHAPTER I. A BRAVE ACTION
CHAPTER II. IN THE SOUTH SEAS
CHAPTER III. A DEAF GIRL
CHAPTER IV. THE GYPSY
CHAPTER V. A GAMBLING DEN
CHAPTER VI. JOHN SIMCOE
CHAPTER VII. JOHN SIMCOE'S FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL MATHIESON'S SEIZURE
CHAPTER IX. A STRANGE ILLNESS
CHAPTER X. TWO HEAVY BLOWS
CHAPTER XI. A STARTLING WILL
CHAPTER XII. DR. LEEDS SPEAKS
CHAPTER XIII. NETTA VISITS STOWMARKET
CHAPTER XIV. AN ADVERTISEMENT
CHAPTER XV. VERY BAD NEWS
CHAPTER XVI. A FRESH CLEW
CHAPTER XVII. NETTA ACTS INDEPENDENTLY
CHAPTER XVIII. DOWN IN THE MARSHES
CHAPTER XIX. A PARTIAL SUCCESS
CHAPTER XX. A DINNER PARTY
CHAPTER XXI. A BOX AT THE OPERA
CHAPTER XXII. NEARING THE GOAL
CHAPTER XXIII. WALTER
CHAPTER XXIV. A NEW BARGE
CHAPTER XXV. A CRUSHING EXPOSURE
CHAPTER XXVI. A LETTER FROM ABROAD
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An island in the Pacific. The sun was shining down from a cloudless sky, the sea was breaking on the white beach, there was just sufficient breeze to move the leaves of the cocoanut trees that formed a dark band behind the sands. A small brig of about a hundred tons' burden lay anchored a short distance from the shore. The paint was off in many places, and everywhere blistered by the sun. Her sails hung loosely in the gaskets, and the slackness of her ropes and her general air of untidiness alike showed the absence of any sort of discipline on board.
In front of a rough shanty, built just within the line of shade of the cocoanuts, sat three men. Two drunken sailors lay asleep some fifty yards away. On the stump of a tree in front of the bench on which the three men were sitting were placed several black bottles and three tin pannikins, while two gourds filled with water and covered with broad banana leaves stood erect in holes dug in the sand.
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He said a few words to the woman, who at once began to carry the things down to the canoe. Then he went down to the beach and shouted, "Atkins!"
"Hullo!" came back from the brig.
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