Chapter X My Lady's Bidding

Chapter XI The Longest Day of My Life

Chapter XII In the Garden

Chapter XIII First Blood

Chapter XIV A Deadlock

Chapter XV When Thieves Fall Out

Chapter XVI A Man of Many Murders

Chapter XVII My Great Hour

Chapter XVIII The Statement of Francis Rattray




CHAPTER I

Love on the Ocean


Nothing is so easy as falling in love on a long sea voyage, except
falling out of love. Especially was this the case in the days
when the wooden clippers did finely to land you in Sydney or in