The Cruise of the Shining Light

Front matter

Reading edition

Published April, 1907.

TO MY ELDER BROTHER

ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

CHAP. PAGE

I. NICHOLAS TOP 1

II. AT THE SIGN OF THE ANCHOR AND CHAIN 10

III. THE CATECHISM AT TWIST TICKLE 27

IV. ON SINISTER BUSINESS 38

V. TAP-TAP ON THE PAVEMENT 45

VI. THE FEET OF CHILDREN 54

VII. TWIN ISLANDS 69

VIII. A MAID O’ WHISPER COVE 75

IX. AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART 89

X. IMPORTED DIRECT 104

XI. THE GRAY STRANGER 120

XII. NEED O’ HASTE 138

XIII. JUDITH ABANDONED 154

XIV. THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM 169

XV. A MEASURE OF PRECAUTION 174

XVI. GREEN PASTURES: AN INTERLUDE 188

XVII. RUM AND RUIN 203

XVIII. A LEGACY OF LOVE 219

XIX. A WORD OF WARNING 230

XX. NO APOLOGY 243

XXI. FOOL’S FORTUNE 247

XXII. GATHERING WINDS 264

XXIII. THE TIDE-RIP 276

XXIV. JOHN CATHER’S FATE 290

XXV. TO SEA 305

XXVI. THE DEVIL’S TEETH 323

THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHT

The Cruise of the SHINING LIGHT