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THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA
A ROMANCE
BYMAX PEMBERTON
Author of Kronstadt, The Phantom Army, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORKD. APPLETON AND COMPANY1902
Copyright, 1902By MAX PEMBERTON
All rights reserved
Published September, 1902
"Shall we go, or stay?"
CONTENTS
- I.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES KNOWN THE PURPOSE OF HIS VOYAGE TO THEPACIFIC OCEAN, AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT HE COMMISSIONED THE STEAM-SHIP SOUTHERN CROSS THROUGHPHILIPS, WESTBURY, AND CO.
- II.—WE GO ASHORE AND LEARN STRANGE THINGS
- III.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES UP HIS MIND WHAT TO DO
- IV.—WE GO ABOARD, BUT RETURN AGAIN
- V.—STRANGE SIGHTS ASHORE, AND WHAT WE SAW OF THEM
- VI.—JASPER BEGG MEETS HIS OLD MISTRESS, AND IS WATCHED
- VII.—IN WHICH HELP COMES FROM THE LAST QUARTER WE HAD EXPECTED IT
- VIII.—THE BIRD'S NEST IN THE HILLS
- IX.—WE LOOK OUT FOR THE SOUTHERN CROSS
- X.—WE ARE SURELY CAGED ON KEN'S ISLAND
- XI.—LIGHTS UNDER THE SEA
- XII.—THE DANCING MADNESS
- XIII.—THE STORM
- XIV.—A WHITE POOL—AND AFTERWARDS
- XV.—AN INTERLUDE, DURING WHICH WE READ IN RUTH BELLENDEN'S DIARY AGAIN
- XVI.—ROSAMUNDA AND THE IRON DOORS
- XVII.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG ENTERS THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA
- XVIII.—CHANCE OPENS A GATE FOR JASPER BEGG, AND HE PASSES THROUGH
- XIX.—WHICH SHOWS THAT A MAN WHO THINKS OF BIG THINGS SOMETIMES FORGETSTHE LITTLE ONES
- XX.—THE FIRST ATTACK IS MADE BY CZERNY'S MEN
- XXI.—WHICH BRINGS IN THE DAY AND WHAT BEFELL THEREIN
- XXII.—THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTY HOURS
- XXIII.—THE END OF THE SIXTY HOURS
- XXIV.—THE SECOND ATTACK ON CZERNY'S HOUSE
- XXV.—IN WHICH THE SUN-TIME COMES AGAIN