Genius

195 Tragedy OUT OF THE WEST In Oklahoma 205 An Idyl of the Prairie in Three Flights Passing the Love of Woman 231 The End of a Frontier Tell WITH GREAT GUNS AND SMALL The Final Propositions 245 A Drama of the Civil War The Captain of H. B. M. Ship Diamond Rock 259 The Tale of a Strange Ship off Martinique "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" 278 The Fate of a Coquette of 1815 Saved by her Slipper 293 A Romance of the Border "Sonny Boy's" Diary 315 An Incident of the War in China EXTRAVAGANZAS The Amazing Yarn of the Bo's'n's Mate 331 An Account of an Unusual Prize The Disembodied Spirit 346 The Story of a Wandering Sensation

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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BY MR. HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
"Oh, Captain Barry, you must do something!"	Frontispiece
BY MR. H. L. V. PARKHURST
The girl boldly sheered the boat into the whirlpool	38
Presently the man was stretched out upon a blanket thrown upon the floor of Emily's room	43
For the preliminary stages in the making of love there is scarcely anything that is so delightful … as a boat just large enough for two	91
They were formally presented to the old admiral	152
BY MR. W. GLACKENS
"Papa! Papa!" she cried, "take me home!"	190
BY MR. HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
The surprised horse bounded into the air with a sudden access of vigor	224
"Say, you cowboy, have you been making a woman cry?"	228
BY MR. FRANK X. LEYENDECKER
"One!" said the old soldier, his voice ringing hollow through the apartment	289
BY MR. WILL CRAWFORD
"The cap'n he chose fer Mr. Parbuckle, … an' a mad young officer he was, too!"	343

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Part I

WOVEN WITH THE SHIP

 

CHAPTER I

The Building of the Ship

Just half a century had elapsed since, cutting down the virgin forest to make room for the ways, they laid her keel blocks in the clearing. With the cunning brain of Henry Eckford, one of the greatest of our shipbuilders, to plan, and the skilful hands of the New England shipwrights to execute, with timber cut by the sturdy woodsmen from where it stood in the forest, the giant frames rose apace, until presently, in an incredibly short time, there stood upon Ship House Point a mighty vessel ready for the launching.

Ship House Point—so called from the ship—was a long ridge of land sloping gently down from a low hill and extending far out into Lake Ontario. It helped to enclose on one side a commodious lake haven known in that day, and ever since, as Sewell's Harbor, from old George Sewell, a