The Project Gutenberg eBook, The House Under the Sea, by Sir Max Pemberton

Title: The House Under the Sea

A Romance

Author: Sir Max Pemberton

Release Date: July 20, 2009 [eBook #29462]
Most recently updated: November 9, 2014

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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CONTENTS

• I.—IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES KNOWN THE PURPOSE OF HIS VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT HE COMMISSIONED THE STEAM-SHIP SOUTHERN CROSS THROUGH PHILIPS, 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 FORGETS THE 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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• "Shall we go or stay?"
• Like dancers at a stage play.
• A picturesque old figure standing there.
• She looked at me with her big, questioning eyes.
• We were all sitting at the supper table.
• The drawing-room is a cave whose walls are of jewels.
• "If there is a sound at the door, fire that gun."
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