The Sign of the Spider
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Mitford Bertram. The Sign of the Spider
CHAPTER I "SWEET HOME!"
CHAPTER II. ADAM'S FIRST WIFE
CHAPTER III "BEWARE SUCH UNHOLY SPELLS!"
CHAPTER IV. THE LAND OF PROMISE
CHAPTER V. KING SCRIP
CHAPTER VI "PIRATE" HAZON
CHAPTER VII "THE WHOLE SOUL PRISONER …"
CHAPTER VIII. DARK DAYS
CHAPTER IX. HIS GUARDIAN ANGEL
CHAPTER X. PREPARATION
CHAPTER XI "AT THE TWELFTH HOUR."
CHAPTER XII "THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH."
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN HUNTERS
CHAPTER XIV. A DREAM
CHAPTER XV. AN AWAKENING
CHAPTER XVI. AN ANGEL UNAWARES
CHAPTER XVII. DISSENSIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. TWO PERILS
CHAPTER XIX. THE SIGN
CHAPTER XX. TO WHAT END!
CHAPTER XXI "THE STRONG WIND THAT BURNS FROM THE NORTH."
CHAPTER XXII. THE SHADOW OF THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER XXIII. LINDELA
CHAPTER XXIV. AS FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXV. HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PLACE OF THE HORROR
CHAPTER XXVII. THE HORROR
CHAPTER XXVIII "ONLY A SAVAGE!"
CHAPTER XXIX "A DEEP – A SOLITARY GRAVE."
CHAPTER XXX "GOOD-BYE – MY IDEAL!"
CHAPTER XXXI. CONCLUSION
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The R. M. S. Persian was cleaving her southward way through the smooth translucence of the tropical sea.
It was the middle of the morning. Her passengers, scattered around her quarter-deck in the coolness of the sheltering awning, were amusing themselves after their kind; some gregarious and chatting in groups, others singly, or in pairs, reading. The men were mostly in flannels and blazers, and deck-shoes; the women affected light array of a cool nature; and all looked as though it were too much trouble to move or even to speak, though here and there an individual more enterprising than his or her fellows would make a spasmodic attempt at a constitutional, said attempt usually resolving itself into five and a half feeble turns, up and down the clear part of the deck, to culminate in abrupt collapse; for it is warm in the tropical seas.
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"It isn't anybody's chair," he replied, rising.
"Oh, thank you," she said, stepping forth. "No, don't trouble; I can carry it myself," she added.
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