Category: Romance
THE _Merry Anne_ was the one lumber schooner on Lake Michigan that always appeared freshly painted; it was Dick Smiley's wildest extravagance to keep her so. Sky blue she was (Annie's favorite color), with a broad white line below the rail; and to see her running down on the n...
“Say, Smiley, I like the way you're acting in this business. If anything on earth will make it any brighter for you, it is what you are doing now. You might even go a step farth...
14. CHAPTER XIV--HARBOR LIGHTSHenry at once handed over two large-caliber revolvers, and emptied his pockets of fully half a hundred cartridges. “It's a lucky thing for you, Mister Beveridge,” he said, “that...
2. CHAPTER II--THE NEW MATEHenry, Dick's cousin, was a short, stocky, man, said to be somewhat of a driver with his sailors. He seldom had much to say, never drank, was shrewd at a bargain, and was suppos...
5. CHAPTER V--BURNT COVEDURING the rest of the afternoon, during the evening, on into the night, Dick's hearty snoring floated up the companionway. At supper-time McGlory called Ole Larsen to the wheel...
11. CHAPTER XI--THURSDAY NIGHT--VAN DEELEN'S BRIDGETHE stars were shining down on the stream that passed sluggishly under Van Deelen's bridge, but they found no answering twinkle there. A gloomy stream it was, winding a sort of...
7. CHAPTER VII--DRAWING TOGETHERTHE eleven days Dick had given her for considering were going faster than any other days Annie had known. To make it worse, she had to pass them alone, for Beveridge, who was al...
1. CHAPTER I--DICK AND HIS MERRY ANNETHE _Merry Anne_ was the one lumber schooner on Lake Michigan that always appeared freshly painted; it was Dick Smiley's wildest extravagance to keep her so. Sky blue she was (A...
8. CHAPTER VIII--THE EVENING OF THE SAME DAYONCE within the shadow of the lumber Annie paused. Not a sound came from the two schooners. She knew that the _Merry Anne_ lay to leeward, on the north side, and after a moment...
13. CHAPTER XIII--WHISKEY JIMBEFORE the four men left the house Wilson revived and asked for his chief. Beveridge, his torn coat thrown aside, hurried back and bent over the bed. “What is it, Bert?”
4. CHAPTER IV--THE CIRCLE MARKEARLY in the morning they were off. Dick, glum and reckless, took the wheel; McGlory went up forward and looked after hoisting the jibs and foresail. The new mate had already su...
12. CHAPTER XII--THE MEETINGIT was between eleven o'clock and midnight when McGlory and his companion returned to Van Deelen's; it was between ten and eleven of this same Thursday night when Axel Lindquist...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE RED SEAL LABELIT was on Friday morning that the _Merry Anne_ had sailed away from Lakeville for her first trip to Spencer's. On this same Friday another set of persons were passing through a...
9. CHAPTER IX--THE CHASE BEGINS--THURSDAY MORNING“You see, I have thought this business over pretty carefully; I have thought _you_ over pretty carefully--and I like you. Now I have been some time on this case, and I understan...
3. CHAPTER III--AT THE HOUSE ON STILTSDICK and Henry did not go directly back, and it was mid-afternoon when they reached the pier. As they walked down the incline from the road, Dick's eyes strayed toward the house...
15. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH BEVERIDGE SURPRISES HIMSELFDICK and Beveridge stood on the wharf at Chicago. The lights that wavered over their faces from the lanterns of the Foote and from the arc lamp overhead showed them sober, silen...