Plundered Cargo (1926)
by Robert Welles Ritchie

Extracted from Short Stories magazine (Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City) 1926 Feb 10, pp. 3-52. Cover illustration by H. C. Murphy

This tale, one whereon murder will be done and barratry—with shipwreck, and villainy finally unmasked—finds its beginning in that city of enchanted hills in those days of its earlier glory. And it is in tone that so trivial a circumstance as the breaking of the driving machinery of a Ferris wheel near the Cliff House should start something destined to come to its climax in the Vermilion Sea.

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PLUNDERED CARGO

By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE

Author of “Light Ridin' Durry,” “Rat-Tail Spills the Beans,” etc.


THE EVENING BEGAN FOR HEADLONG SPIKE HORN IN A SAN FRANCISCO FERRIS WHEEL, AND ENDED WITH HIS FINDING HIMSELF SHANGHAIED ABOARD THE “LONNEY LEE,” FORCED TO SHARE IN THAT CRAFT'S SOUTHWARD SEARCH FOR A TREASURE-LADEN HULK. SKIPPER STORRS RATED SPIKE AS DANGEROUS. IN THE LONELY WATERS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA HE WELL PROVED HIS RIGHT TO THE RATING


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