Smith Ruel Perley. The Rival Campers Afloat: or, The Prize Yacht Viking
CHAPTER I. DOWN THE RIVER
CHAPTER II. THE COLLISION
CHAPTER III. A RESCUE UNREWARDED
CHAPTER IV. SQUIRE BRACKETT DISCOMFITED
CHAPTER V. HARVEY GETS BAD NEWS
CHAPTER VI. OUT TO THE FISHING-GROUNDS
CHAPTER VII. NEAR THE REEFS
CHAPTER VIII. LITTLE TIM A STRATEGIST
CHAPTER IX. HARRY BRACKETT PLAYS A JOKE
CHAPTER X. MR. CARLETON ARRIVES
CHAPTER XI. SQUIRE BRACKETT IS PUZZLED
CHAPTER XII. THE SURPRISE SETS SAIL AGAIN
CHAPTER XIII. STORMY WEATHER
CHAPTER XIV. THE MAN IN THE CABIN
CHAPTER XV. MR. CARLETON GOES AWAY
CHAPTER XVI. SEARCHING THE VIKING
CHAPTER XVII. A RAINY NIGHT
CHAPTER XVIII. TWO SECRETS DISCOVERED
CHAPTER XIX. THE LOSS OF THE VIKING
CHAPTER XX. FLEEING IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXI. A TIMELY ARRIVAL
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“Pleasant sort of a man, wasn’t he?” commented Harvey, as the Viking left the pier astern, and the stranger could be seen walking briskly up the road toward the town.
“Why, yes, he was, in a way,” responded Henry Burns. “Most persons manage to make themselves agreeable while one is doing them a favour. Really, though, he isn’t one of the open, hearty kind, though he did try to be pleasant. I don’t know why I think so, but he seemed sort of half-concealed behind that big moustache.”
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“Well, I’ll take the chance,” replied Harvey. “There, he’s doing better now. He is pointing up a little bit. We’ll keep on this tack and run pretty close to him, and hail him. I’ll just sing out to him about that topping-lift, anyway; and if he doesn’t like our interfering, why he can come aboard and thrash us.”
As the sailboat drew nearer, there appeared to be a single occupant, a youth of about Harvey’s age, perhaps a year older, holding the tiller. His hat was gone and he was standing up, with hair dishevelled, glaring wildly ahead, in a confused sort of way. The boom of the sailboat was well out on the starboard side. Harvey kept the Viking on the starboard tack, and near enough to have passed quite close to the other boat.
