MAX PEMBERTON

Author of Kronstadt, The Phantom Army, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1902

Copyright, 1902 By MAX PEMBERTON

All rights reserved

Published September, 1902

"Shall we go, or stay?"

CONTENTS

I.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES KNOWN THE PURPOSE OF HIS VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT HE COMMISSIONED THE STEAM-SHIP SOUTHERN CROSS THROUGH PHILIPS, WESTBURY, AND CO.

II.—WE GO ASHORE AND LEARN STRANGE THINGS

III.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES UP HIS MIND WHAT TO DO

IV.—WE GO ABOARD, BUT RETURN AGAIN

V.—STRANGE SIGHTS ASHORE, AND WHAT WE SAW OF THEM

VI.—JASPER BEGG MEETS HIS OLD MISTRESS, AND IS WATCHED

VII.—IN WHICH HELP COMES FROM THE LAST QUARTER WE HAD EXPECTED IT

VIII.—THE BIRD'S NEST IN THE HILLS

IX.—WE LOOK OUT FOR THE SOUTHERN CROSS

X.—WE ARE SURELY CAGED ON KEN'S ISLAND

XI.—LIGHTS UNDER THE SEA

XII.—THE DANCING MADNESS

XIII.—THE STORM

XIV.—A WHITE POOL—AND AFTERWARDS

XV.—AN INTERLUDE, DURING WHICH WE READ IN RUTH BELLENDEN'S DIARY AGAIN

XVI.—ROSAMUNDA AND THE IRON DOORS

XVII.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG ENTERS THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA

XVIII.—CHANCE OPENS A GATE FOR JASPER BEGG, AND HE PASSES THROUGH

XIX.—WHICH SHOWS THAT A MAN WHO THINKS OF BIG THINGS SOMETIMES FORGETS THE LITTLE ONES

XX.—THE FIRST ATTACK IS MADE BY CZERNY'S MEN

XXI.—WHICH BRINGS IN THE DAY AND WHAT BEFELL THEREIN

XXII.—THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTY HOURS

XXIII.—THE END OF THE SIXTY HOURS

XXIV.—THE SECOND ATTACK ON CZERNY'S HOUSE

XXV.—IN WHICH THE SUN-TIME COMES AGAIN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Shall we go or stay?"

Like dancers at a stage play.

A picturesque old figure standing there.

She looked at me with her big, questioning eyes.

We were all sitting at the supper table.

The drawing-room is a cave whose walls are of jewels.

"If there is a sound at the door, fire that gun."

Another man fell with a loud cry.

THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA