Front matter
Reading edition
By
Robert McReynolds
Author of
“Thirty Years on the Frontier,” “Rodney Wilkes,” “The Luxury of Poverty,” “A Modern Jean Valjean,” “Facts and Fancies,” Etc.
GOWDY-SIMMONS PUBLISHING CO.
Colorado Springs, Colo. 1907
Copyright 1907 By Robert McReynolds.
To Honorable John B. Stephen and his estimable wife, from the romantic story of whose lives, the principal incidents of this work are taken. Colorado City, Colorado 1907
ILLUSTRATIONS
SOUNDING THE DEPTHS 24
WRECK OF THE SPANISH SLOOP SEVILLE. 36
THE EARTH BEGAN TO ROCK AND REEL. 84
THE HOME VOYAGE OF THE AVEN WAS FRAUGHT WITH ALL THE DANGERS OF THE SEA. 148
FLIGHT OF THE TORPEDO BOAT. 166
THE AREGUIPENA. 212
CONTENTS
I Under the Sword of Damocles 9
II In Days of Innocence 24
III Through Mists of the Sea 31
IV Graves Gave up Their Dead 41
V Fairest Flower of the Cordilleras 50
VI A Humiliating Incident 56
VII In the Throes of Revolution 64
VIII Viva Generalissimo Pierola 72
IX Amid the Din of Battle 80
X We Meet Again, Felicita 90
XI The Masque Ball at Tiravaya 98
XII Cowardly Act of a Villain 107
XIII Murderous Plan of the Insurgents 115
XIV For the Sake of Humanity 125
XV In Desperate Struggle for Life 135
XVI The Screaming Winds of Night 143
XVII The Barbarian Meets His Ingomar 151
XVIII On Sunny Seas Bound North 159
XIX Death Ships of the Sea 167
XX A Daughter of the Cherokees 176
XXI Carson’s Blank Pages in Life 185
XXII A Voice from Centuries Past 195
XXIII The Two Old Black Crows 205
XXIV The Reckless Hand of Fate 214
XXV Cords of Love Are Strong 223
XXVI When the Death Gloom Gathers 231
XXVII A Night of Tragedies 240
XXVIII From out the Shadowy Past 249