William MacLeod Raine
The Pirate of Panama (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
Treasure Hunt Adventure Novel
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2020 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066385972
Table of Contents
Chapter II. Captain Bothwell Interrupts
Chapter III. Concerning Doubloon Spit
Chapter IV. The Man with the Secret
Chapter VI. The Missing Corner
Chapter VIII. Aboard the Argos
Chapter IX. Bothwell Makes a Move
Chapter XII. My Unexpected Guest
Chapter XVII. A Taste of the Inquisition
Chapter XVIII. Anchored Hearts
Chapter XIX. Sense and Nonsense
Chapter XXI. A Message From Bucks
Chapter XXIII. Aboard the Schooner
TO
CAPTAIN FORRESTER
FIRST MATE ROBERT, QUARTERMASTER WILLIAM
AND BO'SUN KENNETH
THIS VOYAGE OF THE ARGOS IS DEDICATED
Ho, gallant tars and true, fall to!
Up anchor, lads, and sheets unfurl.
Let engines throb a low tattoo;
It's "All aboard for Panama."
The snell wind whistles shrill o'erhead,
The bullets spatter thick below,
By candle light we count our dead,
While we are bound for Panama.
For all true men waits hidden gold,
'Gainst all true hearts fight pirate foes,
Who bears him with a courage bold
Will land with us at Panama.
Into the deep drive strong and sure,
Straight as an arrow for the goal,
From off the course let nothing lure,
The breeze is fair for Panama.
Chapter I
A Scrap of Paper
It was a dismal, sodden morning, with heavy clouds banked in the western sky. Rain had sloshed down since midnight so that the gutter in front of me was a turbid little river.
A chill wind swept across the city and penetrated to the marrow. From the summit of the hill, three blocks above me, my car was sliding down, but I clung to the curb to postpone until the last moment a plunge into the flowing street.
Since I was five-and-twenty, in tip-top health, and Irish by descent, I whistled
