Volume 13 — STEVENSON
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
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CONTENTS
THE WRECKER
PROLOGUE
PAGE
In the Marquesas 5
THE YARN
CHAPTER
I. A Sound Commercial Education 19
II. Roussillon Wine 32
III. To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton 43
IV. In which I experience Extremes of Fortune 58
V. In which I am down on my Luck in Paris 71
VI. In which I go West 86
VII. Irons in the Fire: Opes Strepitumque 102
VIII. Faces on the City Front 126
IX. The Wreck of the flying Scud 139
X. In which the Crew vanish 154
XI. In which Jim and I take Different Ways 179
XII. The Norah Creina 194
XIII. The Island and the Wreck 210
XIV. The Cabin of the Flying Scud 222
XV. The Cargo of the Flying Scud 237
XVI. In which I turn Smuggler, and the Captain Casuist 251
XVII. Light from the Man of War 264
XVIII. Cross-questions and Crooked Answers 278
XIX. Travels with a Shyster 294
XX. Stallbridge-le-Carthew 317
XXI. Face to Face 330
XXII. The Remittance Man 338
XXIII. The Budget of the Currency Lass 363
XXIV. A Hard Bargain 388
XXV. A Bad Bargain 402
EPILOGUE
To Will H. Low 427