Smith Ruel Perley. Jack Harvey's Adventures: or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates
CHAPTER I. HARVEY MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER II. THE CABIN OF THE SCHOONER
CHAPTER III. DOWN THE BAY
CHAPTER IV. ABOARD THE BUG-EYE
CHAPTER V. THE LAW OF THE BAY
CHAPTER VI. THE WORKING OF THE LAW
CHAPTER VII. DREDGING FLEET TACTICS
CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT’S POACHING
CHAPTER IX. FACES THROUGH THE TELESCOPE
CHAPTER X. FLIGHT AND DISASTER
CHAPTER XI. HARVEY SENDS A MESSAGE TO SHORE
CHAPTER XII. ESCAPE AT LAST
CHAPTER XIII. HENRY BURNS MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIV. HARVEY MEETS WITH A LOSS
CHAPTER XV. HENRY BURNS IN TROUBLE
CHAPTER XVI. ARTIE JENKINS COMES ABOARD
CHAPTER XVII. ARTIE JENKINS AT THE DREDGES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLE OF NANTICOKE RIVER
CHAPTER XIX. SURPRISES FOR JACK HARVEY
CHAPTER XX. THE PURSUIT OF THE BRANDT
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Jack Harvey stood at the foot of the companionway, for a moment, looking into the cabin, before he entered. There was a lamp burning dimly, fastened into a socket in a support that extended from the centre-board box to the ceiling. Its light sufficed for Harvey to see but vaguely at first, owing to a cloud of tobacco smoke that filled the stuffy cabin. It was warm there, however, for the cook-stove in the galley threw its comforting heat beyond the limits of that small place; and the warmth was decidedly agreeable to one coming in from the evening air.
Harvey entered and stood, waiting for his new acquaintance to join him. He could see objects soon more plainly. He perceived that the person who was emitting the volumes of smoke was a short, thick-set man, who was occupying one of the two wooden chairs that the cabin afforded. He was huddled all up in a heap, with his head submerged below the collar of his thick overcoat, out of which rim the smoke ascended, as though from the crater of a tiny volcano.
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A look of determination came into the face of Mr. Jenkins. It was as if he had made up his mind that Harvey should have no opportunity now of backing out.
“No, you don’t need to,” he said. “The captain’s got all that stuff, and he buys at wholesale, and you can get it cheaper of him. Wait till to-morrow, anyway, and if he can’t fit you, we’ll go ashore.”
