Hurricane Williams
HURRICANE WILLIAMS
By
GORDON YOUNG
Author of
SAVAGES, WILD BLOOD, ETC.
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1920
The Ridgway Company
COPYRIGHT 1922
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To
REGINA
With Great Respect for My Good Luck Ever Since
Many Years Ago, in a Strange City, with Thirteen
Dollars and No Job, I Coaxed Her into Taking the
Name of a Man She Had Known But a Few Years.
CONTENTS
chapter page I The Ship With A Viking Name 1 II A Woman, Red and Purple, Like Fire and Bruises 3 III Convent Feet Touch Pagan Ground 14 IV A Devil's Crew Boards the Black Dane's Ship 23 V Sharp Knives Click in the Moonlight 33 VI The Taking of the Mariana 49 VII The Losing of the Mariana 84 VIII Gossip and Blasphemy 110 IX A Hard Man Swings, Wrists Up 119 X A Fool Tickles the Nose Of Death 139 XI Ha! Ha! Gin is the Color Of Water 161 XII Calm—And a Storm Breaks 188 XIII Mutiny 198 XIV Death Rapes the Flame Woman 220 XV A Virgin—and Crooked Dice 228 XVI Seven Men Die from the Kiss of a Cutlas Edge 263 XVII When Life Has Given Love— 276 XVIII Up Out of the Sea 289 XIX The Man Who Once Was Hanged 302 XX The Shroud is Made, the Burial Service Read 316 XXI They Go, as Shadows Vanish into Darkness
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