A CRIME OF THE UNDER-SEAS
By GUY BOOTHBY
Author of "A Bid for Fortune" "Doctor Nikola" "The BeautifulWhite Devil"
"Pharos, the Egyptian" etc. etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY STANLEY L. WOOD
LONDON
WARD LOCK & CO LIMITED
1905
"Dropped him again with a cry that echoed in my helmet."
CONTENTS
A Crime of the Under-Seas
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
The Phantom Stockman
The Treasure of Sacramento Nick
Into the Outer Darkness
The Story of Tommy Dodd and "The Rooster"
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Cupid and Psyche
Misplaced Affections
In Great Waters
Mr. Aristocrat
This Man and This Woman
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List of Illustrations
"Dropped him again with a cry that echoed in my helmet."
"I sprang to my feet on hearing this. 'Not the first!' I cried."
"A native fruit-hawker came round the corner."
"Then, just as her nose grounded, my eyes caught sight of a bigcreeper-covered mass."
"One moonlight night ... somebody stepped up beside him."
A Crime of the Under-Seas
CHAPTER I
There is an old saying that "one half of the world does not know how theother half lives," but how true this is very few of us reallyunderstand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous.There are men en