Category: Novels
“I have adopted no child,” said Cap’n John Smiley with coldness. “A child was saved from the wreck of the _Mermaid_ and the men at the station have adopted her. The fancy struck them and--I certainly had no objection. It’s--she’s--a girl, a little girl of about six. We don’t k...
On the morning of the last day of October, several years after it was decided that Mermaid should live with Keturah Smiley in Blue Port, a thin, pleasant-faced boy stopped in fr...
4. PART FOURThey had lived together for a little more than fifteen years. The newspapers of those years contain nothing to show or suggest what may have been wrong in their lives. If there...
3. PART THREEIn the room, besides the people, there was a coffin and a black flag decorated with the skull and crossbones of buccaneers--or fictioneers. Every once in a while persons went do...
1. PART ONE“I have adopted no child,” said Cap’n John Smiley with coldness. “A child was saved from the wreck of the _Mermaid_ and the men at the station have adopted her. The fancy struck...