CONTENTS
CHAPTER I —THE INCIDENT AT THE BANK
CHAPTER II —IN THE SEWING-ROOM
CHAPTER V —AFTER THE OPERA IS OVER
CHAPTER VI —FROM SEA TO MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER VII —“A WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY”
CHAPTER VIII —“WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME”
CHAPTER XII —THE DREADED TROGZMONDOFF
CHAPTER XIV —A VOYAGE INTO THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER XV —“A HOME ON THE ROLLING DEEP”
CHAPTER XVII —A FELLOW SCIENTIST
CHAPTER XVIII —CELL NUMBER ONE
CHAPTER XIX —“STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE”
CHAPTER XX —ARRIVAL OF THE TURBINE YACHT
IN the public room of the Sixth National Bank at Bar Harbor in Maine, Lieutenant Alan Drummond, H.M.S. “Consternation,” stood aside to give precedence to a lady. The Lieutenant had visited the bank for the purpose of changing several crisp white Bank of England notes into the currency of the country he was then visiting. The lady did not appear to notice either his courtesy or his presence, and this was the more remarkable since Drummond was a young man sufficiently conspicuous even in a crowd, and he and she were, at that moment, the only customers in the bank. He was tall, well-knit and stalwart, blond as a Scandinavian, with dark blue eyes which he sometimes said jocularly were the colors of his university. He had been slowly approaching the cashier’s window with the easy movement of a man never in a hurry, when the girl appeared at the door, and advanced rapidly to the bank counter with its brass wire screen surrounding the arched aperture behind which stood the cashier. Although very plainly attired, her gown nevertheless