Kit Musgrave's Luck

_Mossamedes_ sailed from Cuba for Buenos Ayres, and on the ocean voyage Kit enjoyed more leisure than he had known for long. When the sea was calm and the ship steamed steadily...

_Campeador_, bound for Teneriffe, rolled with a languid swing across the shining swell. Her slanted masts and yellow funnel flashed; her boats and deck were dazzling white, and...

_Mossamedes_ steamed into Las Palmas harbour one evening, and as soon as she was moored Kit landed Don Erminio and filed the necessary documents at the _Commandancia_ offices. H...

The morning was hot, and Kit Musgrave, leaning on the African liner's rail, watched the volcanic rocks of Grand Canary grow out of the silver haze. He was conscious of some disa...

Jefferson, sitting under a lamp in his office, smoked a cigarette and studied Austin with quiet amusement. He knew his partner rather well and thought him embarrassed; in fact,...

Don Erminio and Kit were fishing in the bay behind the Isleta, the hill of volcanic cinders that shelters the Port of Light. Off-shore, the Trade-breeze was fresh, but in the ba...

The veranda was shady, and Kit sat on the top step in the cool breeze that blew between the posts. Olivia occupied a basket-chair farther back; her pose was languidly graceful a...

On the morning after their arrival, Kit and Macallister went to the Metropole. Macallister wore a neat blue uniform, a cap with the company's badge, and spotless white deck-shoe...

A light breeze touched the long swell that splashed about the coaling mole, for the range that runs down the middle of Teneriffe cut off the Trade-wind. The sun was near the mou...

When the _correillo_ returned from Palma and Kit went to the company's office he was bothered by doubts. Don Ramon, the Spanish manager, had been kind, and Kit felt shabby. He h...

To some extent, Kit's first voyage on board _Mossamedes_ was disappointing, and he felt as if he had been cheated. Nothing romantic marked the run; the boat was large, her roll...

After a collision with a steam tram, the _tartana_ reached Las Palmas and Considine got down at a wine shop. He refused to pay for the damage to the trap, and wishing Kit good l...

Kit returned for _comida_, which in Spanish countries is the second proper meal. At Jefferson's it was served about five o'clock, and when Kit arrived Mrs. Jefferson indicated a...

At the bottom of the wady it was very hot, and Kit lay on the sand behind a rock. His smarting skin was crusted by salt, his clothes had dried stiff, and his muscles were sore....

Mrs. Austin's veranda was not as crowded as usual. For one thing, a steamer that touched at Las Palmas regularly had arrived from the Argentine and her captain was giving a ball...

An angry swell rolled along the coast, dust blew across the flat-roofed town, and _Mossamedes_, with two anchors out, rode uneasily. She had unloaded some cargo and Kit, going a...

Two weeks after Kit joined his ship, she returned to Las Palmas, and on the whole he was satisfied with his occupation. _Campeador_ was fast and built on a steam yacht's model,...

On the evening of Austin's return to Las Palmas he and Jefferson smoked and talked on the veranda steps. Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Jefferson were occupied with some sewing at a table...

All the basket chairs on Mrs. Austin's veranda were occupied and two or three young men leaned against the posts. Mrs. Austin used no formality. People came and went when they l...

_Mossamedes_ dropped anchor as near as was safe to the flat-roofed Moorish town. The roadstead was open and the harbour was only deep enough for boats, but so long as the wind d...

Soon after his arrival at Las Palmas, Kit started for Jefferson's office. He had passed an hour with Wolf, who declared himself altogether satisfied about the voyage and gave Ki...

A black cloud rolled from _Mossamedes'_ funnel and blew across her bows. The beat of engines quickened and when the stern swung up their furious racing shook the ship. Kit pictu...

_Mossamedes_ was hauling out from the mole, and Kit, on his way to his room, stopped to look about. The deck was strewn with cargo, for a small steamer that had tied up alongsid...

It was getting cooler, and long shadows marked the curves of the wady. On the other side, oblique sunbeams touched the bank. The wind had dropped, and as the dew began to fall t...

Don Arturo and his party occupied a corner of the glass-roofed _patio_ at the Metropole. For the most part, the tourists had gone when Las Palmas got hot, and the big hotel was...

The sun was nearly overhead, and Kit sat in the hot dust that lay about the wady. A low bank rose behind him and shaded his head. His eyes hurt, he was tired, and his burned ski...

After the five o'clock _comida_ Kit went to Jefferson's office. There was no use in returning to Mrs. Austin's, because it was an evening she received her friends, and Olivia wo...

The morning was hot and Betty had pulled the curtains across the arch. She typed an English letter and thought about Kit. Although she knew he had gone to Mrs. Austin's, it was...

Dinner was over, the night was hot, and Mrs. Austin had taken her party to the veranda. Wolf had gone; he declared he could not put off another engagement, but Mrs. Austin wonde...

The red sunset shone behind Lanzarote's broken hills, and the Trade-wind had, for an hour or two, dropped to a light breeze. _Campeador_'s boat, under jib and spritsail, was bea...

When he had gone some distance Kit climbed down a ravine that promised a short line to the harbour, and stopped as he crossed a field of maize at the bottom. A girl, standing by...

Soon after he left Mrs. Austin's, Kit rowed off to _Mossamedes_, got some clothes and talked to the interpreter, who hesitated for a time before he agreed to go with him. Then h...

In the morning before the sun was high, a Berber took Kit and his party to the headman's tent and signed them to sit in the sand. Their clothes were smeared by dust to which the...

Jefferson sat in the shade of the bougainvillea and pondered some letters. Austin lounged in a basket-chair opposite and read the _Diario_. They had combined their business as f...

I.--OLIVIA'S EXPERIMENT 99 II.--THE FIRST VOYAGE 108 III.--KIT'S SURPRISE 116 IV.--WOLF GIVES A FEAST 124 V.--WOLF'S OFFER 133 VI.--BETTY CARRIES A MESSAGE 140 VII.--SHIPPING CA...

CHAPTER PAGE I.--KIT'S PLUNGE 3 II.--OTHER RULES 12 III.--A MOUNTAIN EXCURSION 20 IV.--KIT'S OBSTINACY 28 V.--MRS. AUSTIN'S VERANDA 35 VI.--THE INJURED PASSENGER 44 VII.--THE BU...

I.--ILLUMINATION 199 II.--"CAYMAN'S" START 208 III.--THE WADY 215 IV.--KIT NEGOTIATES 222 V.--THE RETURN TO THE BEACH 229 VI.--BETTY DEMANDS HELP 236 VII.--THE "LUCIA" ARRIVES 2...